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<\/a><\/p>\nThen I measured 528 ends of 20\/2 undyed silk a bit over 6 yards long and warped up the loom at 24EPI. For weft I wanted to use some 20\/2 silk I’d dyed with indigo last year at my guild<\/a>‘s natural dye workshop. I hand hemmed the beginning edge and set off weaving. I loved<\/em> the way the weaving looked, and got a bit over a foot woven when I took a whole bunch of measurements and realized that I would not have enough yarn to complete the piece. Damn, damn, double damn! I couldn’t bear to waste the silk, either the undyed or the indigo dyed, so I painstakingly unwove 12+”. What a drag!<\/p>\n Then I tried four different colors of silk and silk-blend yarn I had. I wasn’t excited about any of them. Must be time to walk away from the loom for the night.<\/p>\n Next day after playing around some more I decided to use some custom-dyed 20\/2 silk I had in Twilight blue. I knew the colors would have more contrast than I wanted, but I wasn’t getting anywhere, so I went for it. I tried and tried to get the colors accurate, but couldn’t really – it’s much more blue in real life.<\/p>\n I could tell even on the loom that the beat was not perfectly even, despite my best attempts, so I knew this wasn’t going to be a jury piece.<\/p>\n That meant I really needed the second shawl to be beautiful. I decided to use some 6\/60 silk-linen yarn, since the color was similar to the natural-dyed indigo. This color is way off, too, showing much grayer than in real life.<\/p>\n I was happy with how it looked on the loom and hoped I would feel the same after wet finishing. I did, yay! This shawl will go to the jury.<\/p>\n I like both of the sides, where the cream makes the wavy lines and where the winter blue does. A bit closer to the real color, but still not right. Then I got stalled on my next skyline and had to walk away from the loom on that, too. So while I was not weaving I decided to bead the ends of the shawl. I used pale blue seed beads and gray freshwater pearls. Here’s the entire width of the shawl. I did notice as I was beading that about 1\/4″ of the width is pulled in a bit on the end, and I’m sure the jury will, too, but if that’s the only criticism on the piece, I’ll be okay with it.<\/p>\n Now for a closeup of the beading.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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