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Today I got the last two bouts of ED & WL’s warps wound. Bout 3 was pale yellow to pale green to turquoise. The last bout was turquoise to peacock. Apparently I didn’t take any pix of it. Then I spread the warp in the raddle and got it beamed – wound on the back beam. It looks great! I also finished all the last details for the wraps for EL, ML, & NA. I tried to get a good photo of the 3 of them together today, but failed. I’ll try again tomorrow before I go to the post office with them. The other day I stopped at a thrift store and picked up some embroidery hoops. I thought if the waves weaving was going to work at all, it’d be stretched in hoops. So without spending any real time in placement, I simply stuck 3 hoops on the piece and hung it over my full glass door. Interesting. The colors don’t show up at all in the photos, but the weaving patterns, such as they are, do.
Today I started winding the warp for ED & WL’s custom baby wraps. The first bout is pale mauve to magenta to fuschia. Bout 2 is fuschia to dark pink to pale yellow. I’m really liking these combos! I was away from home all day yesterday and have a day full of commitments tomorrow, so I really wanted to get as much as possible of EL’s wrap woven today.
It always makes me happy when, late in the afternoon, the rainbow created by the big crystal hanging in my window lands on the loom while I’m weaving. If I’d gotten off my weaving stool 3 minutes sooner I could have snapped an even better photo. I worked hard and got 2/3 of E’s wrap woven! It’ll be easy to finish the last 1/3 of the weaving on Wednesday, cut these wraps off the loom, & hem them. When I wound that purple to gold rayon warp I had a vision in my mind of what it would look like woven. I was going to thread a straight twill and zip through it. Then baby wraps intervened, and by the time I could get back to the rayon I decided to modify the threading slightly. I used the darkest purple rayon for weft for the first scarf, treadling a straight 1-2-3-4. It was okay, but didn’t give me what I had in mind. The dark purple made the whole scarf darker than I wanted. So I tried out a bunch of different colors: navy, dark red, white, peacock, pink. I liked the red the best, and used a treadling that I didn’t really like doing: 1-2-3-4-1-5-3-6. Sort of a pain for my feet but I liked the weaving pattern. I also liked the red, but it really changed the look, and it, too, was not what I had in my mind’s eye. I didn’t like any of the light colors, so went with a navy bamboo for the third with a different tie up. My least favorite, for sure. I sewed a flat fell seam and made it into an infinity.
These colors are reasonably accurate. My new camera does a much better job without natural light than the old one did – quite a benefit. The correct size yarn for EL’s wrap arrived in today’s mail. But I didn’t get it till after dinner, and since I have to get up early tomorrow morning I knew it would be a bad idea to start weaving at 7:30PM. So I pressed those rayon scarves and wound a bunch of bobbins. I’m spending all day tomorrow with my family, but come Monday morning I’ll be ready to sit down & weave! Although the temperature this morning was about 10 below, the sun was shining brightly all day long. At around noon I happened to look out my window and saw this little guy checking it out.
Wanna see a close up of him?
He stood like that facing the sun for at least 2 full minutes, then turned around.
Seconds later he scooted into his hole in the snowbank, deciding that the temps were still too cold.
Soon, little guy, soon. |
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