tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91057808838513004532024-02-18T21:17:57.719-08:00Weaving in the FoothillsIngridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12856580148171686040noreply@blogger.comBlogger135125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105780883851300453.post-38724360156253556342022-05-09T19:21:00.001-07:002022-05-09T19:21:25.848-07:00T-Shirts into Rag Rug Weft<p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I recently wove a rag rug as a guild challenge. I used 8/4 cotton carpet warp for the warp and yarn weft and cut up t-shirts for the rags. I was asked how I turned a shirt into a ball of rag weft. I thought I would show how I prepared the fabric strips. I got the idea of how to do this from <i>The Rag Rug Handbook</i> by Janet Meany.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I started with a t-shirt and cut off the body from just underneath the sleeves. The tube body was turned 90 degrees so that the open edges were on the sides and the top and bottom facing me were the tube sides. I folded the bottom onto almost the other side on the top but not matching the edges. I left 1-2 inches between the two edges. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-qslc4tto0XKNBURbBMkRWGYbryjrhOkza5sHpkJ4EN1fHqwpxUI-4hu3eDE8q3172o7OZT1rtcdQc9H-jtpKiivgqIu59pIp9SHQzkjxRgSsS8tfsnGO2rtNc740CKTfv6LtrJZrqXf853eMEBNNlY_bZbKRsc64fvhwB9b2HkBYKzBVfgnnvEUWGQ/s4032/IMG_8035.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-qslc4tto0XKNBURbBMkRWGYbryjrhOkza5sHpkJ4EN1fHqwpxUI-4hu3eDE8q3172o7OZT1rtcdQc9H-jtpKiivgqIu59pIp9SHQzkjxRgSsS8tfsnGO2rtNc740CKTfv6LtrJZrqXf853eMEBNNlY_bZbKRsc64fvhwB9b2HkBYKzBVfgnnvEUWGQ/s320/IMG_8035.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Starting T-Shirt</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIYbEvov88LYDORLLjcFp3ISg8rVXGRWaNtS-5hp14x5KOR4UNyiEVOKFt16kKALliV-lxs9fT6piMuF-qmQ4ONaBfqBtxbnFQy02qPHv2FKOGSnq7aCu8uIBp18qe5SMVJniPPlHXahsjXnlHWSH_rkqH6ryW-hVX1X1rRaPKhcglxmRe7VIf5ZUBRQ/s4032/IMG_8036.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIYbEvov88LYDORLLjcFp3ISg8rVXGRWaNtS-5hp14x5KOR4UNyiEVOKFt16kKALliV-lxs9fT6piMuF-qmQ4ONaBfqBtxbnFQy02qPHv2FKOGSnq7aCu8uIBp18qe5SMVJniPPlHXahsjXnlHWSH_rkqH6ryW-hVX1X1rRaPKhcglxmRe7VIf5ZUBRQ/s320/IMG_8036.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cut the t-shirt under the sleeves</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHop12APsVPxPpvEXMsHTlmrLxFhI5mq6d4kdXtZwiKgunm8Irgz0jv-eKB7bkNUREBaPCysn-LB7rObuAQNSeBHl3M_lPVrBaptheIXtTLmZVvOxcZTFQPXbNJH5hOh5J2aPf1mzqRnEKETr7HbuFQ6HPgT7mq-K8EZHKUZ0Ne3l2Di1lU6LxagHKXw/s4032/IMG_8037.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHop12APsVPxPpvEXMsHTlmrLxFhI5mq6d4kdXtZwiKgunm8Irgz0jv-eKB7bkNUREBaPCysn-LB7rObuAQNSeBHl3M_lPVrBaptheIXtTLmZVvOxcZTFQPXbNJH5hOh5J2aPf1mzqRnEKETr7HbuFQ6HPgT7mq-K8EZHKUZ0Ne3l2Di1lU6LxagHKXw/s320/IMG_8037.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Turn the shirt 90 degrees and fold the bottom edge almost up to the top edge</td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">With a rotary cutter, I cut 1 inch portions of the two layers of the shirt body up to about ½ - 1 inch from the top edge. (Don’t cut all of the way through or you will just have loops.) The width of these strips are up to you and the project you are making. I cut 1 inch strips all of the way across the folded fabric. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyc1fvGcYaGUxJ9mRa2iiwSvE8UdWN4QRiCXtYJSAvsgo46VDiRhMMB2vywvgko76yI1pjHyNPv2rpU4Q_atxVX8uJmqiXzzq82Eq3RcqowtjzYyAC7sP7wTggio_MSWOdSY1P9CXVYc5hB-QHo8uLhXLIeTvn5FqnbcAMGY2lk4m_CO3_Ajm_tFrAfA/s4032/IMG_8038.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyc1fvGcYaGUxJ9mRa2iiwSvE8UdWN4QRiCXtYJSAvsgo46VDiRhMMB2vywvgko76yI1pjHyNPv2rpU4Q_atxVX8uJmqiXzzq82Eq3RcqowtjzYyAC7sP7wTggio_MSWOdSY1P9CXVYc5hB-QHo8uLhXLIeTvn5FqnbcAMGY2lk4m_CO3_Ajm_tFrAfA/s320/IMG_8038.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiNrVZkY0n9PYfotMD8QzJblwhx-uu0yob6bscDr9IuvZlbZZRsVk-_1gW2FLDvykQ6D4ODdUI3zyKIBoCZaFPxWvFxMVozu9kHCka-Pf-FGDdMyy36zLCuxf6nKXbvMuZMn_RxZ350Nx0cwELjZH7_Jz5eO1UQawHG0J26LE6sfmCkOMScFzYQbI3Tg/s4032/IMG_8039.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiNrVZkY0n9PYfotMD8QzJblwhx-uu0yob6bscDr9IuvZlbZZRsVk-_1gW2FLDvykQ6D4ODdUI3zyKIBoCZaFPxWvFxMVozu9kHCka-Pf-FGDdMyy36zLCuxf6nKXbvMuZMn_RxZ350Nx0cwELjZH7_Jz5eO1UQawHG0J26LE6sfmCkOMScFzYQbI3Tg/s320/IMG_8039.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cut 1" strips almost but not quite to the top edge</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3eV9-H2dB6CL8aFfuUcaV2K3MrJ-5xr4oWF9ltBVrzv0JGAp_aAKpdgjIOntjx8j2pN9X5Zrr9gGzbWbSYPt4CwTIOcnyE1BBb0Rn2TycY-6YmUmY7vHqc8U5QrNM4RHpH4anWIkpovYc5Iy9r6N6o31s6bYfkm8BM230BOAh7wGbxR5kUjWAPVb_Kw/s4032/IMG_8040.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3eV9-H2dB6CL8aFfuUcaV2K3MrJ-5xr4oWF9ltBVrzv0JGAp_aAKpdgjIOntjx8j2pN9X5Zrr9gGzbWbSYPt4CwTIOcnyE1BBb0Rn2TycY-6YmUmY7vHqc8U5QrNM4RHpH4anWIkpovYc5Iy9r6N6o31s6bYfkm8BM230BOAh7wGbxR5kUjWAPVb_Kw/s320/IMG_8040.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Continue cutting to the right edge of the shirt body</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The next step is also a bit tricky. I opened the folded fabric and inserted my plastic ruler, just to separate the layers. From the left edge, I cut up to the right side of the first strip. I continued to cut the fabric in the same manner until all of the shirt is cut. When this is finished, if all goes well, the shirt body is one long strip and I wind it into a ball, ready to be used for weft rags. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6CUn7RjW2z15D9tKP0xttGjNPizd8L9xl7jOFoSF8ElOvCDWO-ra5AVmbG6xj3_mBBbm9gnjXXsDcqyO_yIrJRBK5aOH0mi9G1EoxW_Nih1seyMWjqhoIvSP9U7s_s5o3q5Rym-sfquQzx4TSA5Nv6Amw1Fh7RBOYDKkR5Wktw9A0iXBOUM1KjCdiEw/s4032/IMG_8043.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6CUn7RjW2z15D9tKP0xttGjNPizd8L9xl7jOFoSF8ElOvCDWO-ra5AVmbG6xj3_mBBbm9gnjXXsDcqyO_yIrJRBK5aOH0mi9G1EoxW_Nih1seyMWjqhoIvSP9U7s_s5o3q5Rym-sfquQzx4TSA5Nv6Amw1Fh7RBOYDKkR5Wktw9A0iXBOUM1KjCdiEw/s320/IMG_8043.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I put a rule between the layers to protect the bottom layer from being cut</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJH_n9lNlvsvf6Dt3cR8RoKMbcNr3hVFGCyZVSvWDzJGlZMD0z3yW9brdtilIKHJyogbs7UX8uUcjg09_efeRsCHLEHvwlZa5o03PAZSAolFjoQGyuD0M74b061_SK5CgiaFiMP9L9G6BVnGWVFDv9VuAlCU79_pG2mTgh9xV4_NkMDhUVR6MhnrpqtA/s4032/IMG_8042.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJH_n9lNlvsvf6Dt3cR8RoKMbcNr3hVFGCyZVSvWDzJGlZMD0z3yW9brdtilIKHJyogbs7UX8uUcjg09_efeRsCHLEHvwlZa5o03PAZSAolFjoQGyuD0M74b061_SK5CgiaFiMP9L9G6BVnGWVFDv9VuAlCU79_pG2mTgh9xV4_NkMDhUVR6MhnrpqtA/s320/IMG_8042.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cut from the left edge at the middle to the right edge of the first strip</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipJwoxZ6Vb6J414qJZHRxGNTw-tDJM2WA1WiBj3AQJlKKnUl3dXTSzzFZoCeNYL0Toud_iLNJ4Z9lPLqvuX-9HzOC5LfVLsf1ijU72TPAm_OTMQv4-xpopg2HSNhhxUrjU7QzWTEIjP4f_57uM574jL1FTijkVTf5SUd1DbQWbfmai4tngk5FoYKVqmg/s4032/IMG_8046.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipJwoxZ6Vb6J414qJZHRxGNTw-tDJM2WA1WiBj3AQJlKKnUl3dXTSzzFZoCeNYL0Toud_iLNJ4Z9lPLqvuX-9HzOC5LfVLsf1ijU72TPAm_OTMQv4-xpopg2HSNhhxUrjU7QzWTEIjP4f_57uM574jL1FTijkVTf5SUd1DbQWbfmai4tngk5FoYKVqmg/s320/IMG_8046.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Roll the strip of shirt into a ball for storage </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I like t-shirt material for rag rugs because they are squishy and pack in and there are lots of colors of shirts. For the rug I made, I used t-shirts that had been my mother’s. A nice remembrance of her.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRdukc9xguBktcOdnbBQkb0a7LbfpK4Ij0Hou_YDishyD9eaE7fX6Jl-3Hpo4EHgleVTUnA9mCchnozE5hXAyDOjLoQZi5m704Z6Ki7YYoDm42Oal03I7eRz4y5VXZAfZuywONoLLZVC2h3V756JiUy_DeFwf1ymGGKhYfZOpTJ08M2VM6YgNRvWXdUw/s4032/Rag%20Rug%204-2022.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRdukc9xguBktcOdnbBQkb0a7LbfpK4Ij0Hou_YDishyD9eaE7fX6Jl-3Hpo4EHgleVTUnA9mCchnozE5hXAyDOjLoQZi5m704Z6Ki7YYoDm42Oal03I7eRz4y5VXZAfZuywONoLLZVC2h3V756JiUy_DeFwf1ymGGKhYfZOpTJ08M2VM6YgNRvWXdUw/s320/Rag%20Rug%204-2022.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div></div><p></p>Ingridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12856580148171686040noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105780883851300453.post-65374641246325695002021-11-08T15:55:00.003-08:002021-11-08T18:40:12.099-08:00Another Year of Pandemic Towels<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> 20211 has been another year of spending time at the loom. I've been doing some different things with the towels I've woven as well as visiting tried and true approaches. I was motivated more by weaving challenges and classes this year. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">A lot of people have been weaving Susan Poague's Turned Taquete' circles. I finally succumbed to this structure, which can be a lot of fun, because of a group challenge to weave something using the 2021 Pantone Colors of the Year. This design was adapted from her article in Handwoven Magazine, May/June 2019, pg 46. It was woven on 8 shafts with 10/2 cotton for the warp and weft.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp9iAVqT9X5NjaQ4TAQr5G-e1NOE7qChfWD_vEijIgx4qAmnDev7slK_1P3QDO-WhOstHo7OFxdRjIIyVPmH-35V36dixaE04PGyqHX6o1ARGaDnfhlxbAXQsIYn9nyx8mL5df0XUwrbOh/s654/1+Yellow+Gray+Turned+Taquete+towels+Drawdown.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="654" data-original-width="283" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp9iAVqT9X5NjaQ4TAQr5G-e1NOE7qChfWD_vEijIgx4qAmnDev7slK_1P3QDO-WhOstHo7OFxdRjIIyVPmH-35V36dixaE04PGyqHX6o1ARGaDnfhlxbAXQsIYn9nyx8mL5df0XUwrbOh/s320/1+Yellow+Gray+Turned+Taquete+towels+Drawdown.JPG" width="138" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Turned Taquete' Drawdown</td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh99Va67DGCBuNYzW6aLfgsCjVtitf8ZvnvQV8l_4mP85rHpxzzTxd8ibyjh8NlFcudaNYRzMY0_ajhI3SN3PKAvmiLegc6vnOng06cS7yjDxcTHb1YL7OSocwIm-BscVr-G-T682OZYMIP/s4032/1+Turned+Tacquete+Towel.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh99Va67DGCBuNYzW6aLfgsCjVtitf8ZvnvQV8l_4mP85rHpxzzTxd8ibyjh8NlFcudaNYRzMY0_ajhI3SN3PKAvmiLegc6vnOng06cS7yjDxcTHb1YL7OSocwIm-BscVr-G-T682OZYMIP/s320/1+Turned+Tacquete+Towel.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Turned Taquete' Towel</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;">_________________________________________________</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Another challenge this group suggested was to weave something in linen. When I think about linen, I normally think about towels. I also think about lace structures. These were woven using 16/2 linen for both warp and weft for all but one of the towels. For the first one, I decided to use 10/2 cotton just to make sure things were working well. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-3N8dXyjpJSddx5PN-9d3LE1UcYxZPHjSw1kC8jp6S1xFrqpYwP3SAAaNXBc06LWLYxUiF2YJ9etgBYLxMfJLIORbYkR0LtrTi3iAFxYZ4jtNhYmXNEG8xhY54nS28X3d6paA_Kz8xL57/s2048/2+Linen+Towels+4-2021.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1432" data-original-width="2048" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-3N8dXyjpJSddx5PN-9d3LE1UcYxZPHjSw1kC8jp6S1xFrqpYwP3SAAaNXBc06LWLYxUiF2YJ9etgBYLxMfJLIORbYkR0LtrTi3iAFxYZ4jtNhYmXNEG8xhY54nS28X3d6paA_Kz8xL57/s320/2+Linen+Towels+4-2021.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Linen Towels</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKgCw_JDyFbvPrEZOuQpfCqtFc-be-Xxjx5Y1lNvGCjcrZqdoweoDfmYimb1CfvqYD6CsBt601s8AUWyohsDtewOsGoyZFmJPVlCG9cy1BX9wAAa8OCMYIyC5DxECDrs1yqIFmjIbvyCr2/s883/2+Linen+Towels+Drawdown+-+straight+treadling+4-2021.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="573" data-original-width="883" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKgCw_JDyFbvPrEZOuQpfCqtFc-be-Xxjx5Y1lNvGCjcrZqdoweoDfmYimb1CfvqYD6CsBt601s8AUWyohsDtewOsGoyZFmJPVlCG9cy1BX9wAAa8OCMYIyC5DxECDrs1yqIFmjIbvyCr2/s320/2+Linen+Towels+Drawdown+-+straight+treadling+4-2021.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Linen Towels Drawdown</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;">_________________________________________________</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Another group I belong to decided to use US National Park posters as color inspiration for woven pieces. I picked the US Virgin Islands as my inspiration. These towels were woven with 10/2 cotton for the warp and weft in six different colors. The structure is a fancy point twill, treadled in a couple different ways, for each towel.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXF0SbdKxJRIgFI6m37GeXNNR7sUiSIDwF04ESFkhKX8Wl_dKx1YSEhd5usg2oRuwog7OaSvLpisHIzp2CCpPkY3N2x8ZMUvSvANSV0r_pRYvqR48UBfqjevkzqb6cdaPvHiDIWbsT0NYl/s1588/Virgin+Islands+Poster.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1588" data-original-width="1096" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXF0SbdKxJRIgFI6m37GeXNNR7sUiSIDwF04ESFkhKX8Wl_dKx1YSEhd5usg2oRuwog7OaSvLpisHIzp2CCpPkY3N2x8ZMUvSvANSV0r_pRYvqR48UBfqjevkzqb6cdaPvHiDIWbsT0NYl/s320/Virgin+Islands+Poster.png" width="221" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">US Virgin Islands Poster</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><br /><p> </p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz5q1yTXWLT2EZK0FTEV9Nttw9Mchkr0B7_A6OH7t4xwiSYHxxtT-DbQBv2dYPBT5aib-i7KtxrsCdFW7n1CeSpbdi08Kd_bWIWMKBy6Dzx_ThNr3LXWYoIgy6DW6BDs4F_DbRqOGMfmag/s2048/3+Virgin+Island+Towels.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1509" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz5q1yTXWLT2EZK0FTEV9Nttw9Mchkr0B7_A6OH7t4xwiSYHxxtT-DbQBv2dYPBT5aib-i7KtxrsCdFW7n1CeSpbdi08Kd_bWIWMKBy6Dzx_ThNr3LXWYoIgy6DW6BDs4F_DbRqOGMfmag/s320/3+Virgin+Island+Towels.jpg" width="236" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Virgin Islands Towels</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ-S3r5muf3VtMhyphenhyphenre61bIhLnZQ3RgOFKBOmK1uaQoRCvFyGX9dpLiLZ4vQjNLwmMHMnXMg-Ya8ux_TOhjcUY8gLe32pU14p4rJmytSsR5XZ8CpHrnc8vLsWGOUXgpxydpZ_nv-j8wso1N/s1222/3+Virgin+Islands+Towels+Drawdown.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1222" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ-S3r5muf3VtMhyphenhyphenre61bIhLnZQ3RgOFKBOmK1uaQoRCvFyGX9dpLiLZ4vQjNLwmMHMnXMg-Ya8ux_TOhjcUY8gLe32pU14p4rJmytSsR5XZ8CpHrnc8vLsWGOUXgpxydpZ_nv-j8wso1N/s320/3+Virgin+Islands+Towels+Drawdown.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Virgin Islands Towels Drawdown</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><br /><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;">_______________________________________________</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I next took a break from challenges and did a bit of free-hand colors. I have most of my 10/2 cotton yarns sitting on top of a bureau and while I was weaving over the course of a week or so, was looking at one corner of the colors. They were all kind of neon and pastel. The colors reminded me of the textiles from the 60's. So I used those colors for the next group of towels. The towels were threaded to an extended point twill and woven with various treadlings on 8 shafts using 10/2 cotton.</span></p><p><br /></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEircmsPWIs-eOJ7m8z-cRrkbykSR-TcOp3MgHs4ZIv9IspLw8LxekgsfOszasEzsnQnPmJA5llF1sqj4KqA2z4Hy2tltIhhZRJi8VGUfJKbY4Xp8PsUhUCj-78v5Dt99I3WG9osx-8oz6-f/s2048/4+60s+Towels+yarns.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEircmsPWIs-eOJ7m8z-cRrkbykSR-TcOp3MgHs4ZIv9IspLw8LxekgsfOszasEzsnQnPmJA5llF1sqj4KqA2z4Hy2tltIhhZRJi8VGUfJKbY4Xp8PsUhUCj-78v5Dt99I3WG9osx-8oz6-f/s320/4+60s+Towels+yarns.jpg" width="258" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">60's Towels Colors</td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTEnlBBF5XK7wztXr189iur6tzNB1tFWURl3UoLiFdXfyQUA-vOQei6dLfCFaLsmzjn7VkbsAnEjAveaTi8jKJIdRplYEEkMlqXSE1RfAD3-YVgrqnCY1vwMxSE2Cm7caV9np9HRxolJTX/s2048/4+60s+towels.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTEnlBBF5XK7wztXr189iur6tzNB1tFWURl3UoLiFdXfyQUA-vOQei6dLfCFaLsmzjn7VkbsAnEjAveaTi8jKJIdRplYEEkMlqXSE1RfAD3-YVgrqnCY1vwMxSE2Cm7caV9np9HRxolJTX/s320/4+60s+towels.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">60's Towels</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0VQWPTdhH5uoeNX034lLosuiZgoe2XcnAudH543Sta_0RWoZR_417gGZiaz7SwGVg-uYZN_bX6Ihtu2fOASjOzVHbvC91nPCUjdgigfu_msCXfbLTMnUqR3Co0SsRhAgSQN_2AIU77Iat/s676/4+60s+Towels+Drawdown.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="603" data-original-width="676" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0VQWPTdhH5uoeNX034lLosuiZgoe2XcnAudH543Sta_0RWoZR_417gGZiaz7SwGVg-uYZN_bX6Ihtu2fOASjOzVHbvC91nPCUjdgigfu_msCXfbLTMnUqR3Co0SsRhAgSQN_2AIU77Iat/s320/4+60s+Towels+Drawdown.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">60 Towels Drawdown</td></tr></tbody></table></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: white;">_____________________________________________________</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Recently, I became interested in a weave-along with Tien Chiu and Michele Belson dealing with gradient colors in weaving. The weave-along was intended for napkins, but I couldn't resist weaving towels instead. These had a red and yellow 10/2 cotton warp in a series of curved gradients. I used a number of different colored 10/2 cotton for weft, including yellow, very light pink, magenta and fuchsia. The structure is straight twill on 8 shafts woven with a 2-2-1-1-1-1 tie-up. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvLGc6HdCfvb4rv34u80Rcqw6SE7Jn3mZ3M6jny4T4R9pUtudBjap3OFUdyDPDyhkcgxtZoWuGdDSSdi-kGnbZ2P4VdJXpvo0dhvFHJUGswDzZfcYUGkNbQ4w9y07ToCM9e909lLUgis70/s4032/5+Disc+Gradient+Towels.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvLGc6HdCfvb4rv34u80Rcqw6SE7Jn3mZ3M6jny4T4R9pUtudBjap3OFUdyDPDyhkcgxtZoWuGdDSSdi-kGnbZ2P4VdJXpvo0dhvFHJUGswDzZfcYUGkNbQ4w9y07ToCM9e909lLUgis70/s320/5+Disc+Gradient+Towels.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gradient Towels</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFDHtyfbji5DXR6NoK31RTSImGpqXgt2EHVXWugtSXMQvQyUS25T2OM22hRVGmJen5YgmtxtYcdUtdyU9cMJ2XZOTEesVhZvpUjCw64sxnx_x3BX4Z032u6XSWSqTYoGQjreMB8LItyF6t/s1171/5+Yellow-Red+Gradient+Drawdown.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="196" data-original-width="1171" height="54" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFDHtyfbji5DXR6NoK31RTSImGpqXgt2EHVXWugtSXMQvQyUS25T2OM22hRVGmJen5YgmtxtYcdUtdyU9cMJ2XZOTEesVhZvpUjCw64sxnx_x3BX4Z032u6XSWSqTYoGQjreMB8LItyF6t/s320/5+Yellow-Red+Gradient+Drawdown.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gradient Towels Drawdown</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: white;">_________________________________________________________</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">A couple of towels from the "vault".</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl64aIZkGk4EwzkXpxJPCBObIyPpNvT6Uym-lLTxQ_bi2nCzkeG223jFUDvfRPCThO3OH3geZ90eRqm0ERf8OFkc7FAaQkQ7ve6w_ZApahz8f7W9C6uPpcXcM2VUF9JZAiXK7sq6DuyQQU/s2048/6+Lupine+Towel.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl64aIZkGk4EwzkXpxJPCBObIyPpNvT6Uym-lLTxQ_bi2nCzkeG223jFUDvfRPCThO3OH3geZ90eRqm0ERf8OFkc7FAaQkQ7ve6w_ZApahz8f7W9C6uPpcXcM2VUF9JZAiXK7sq6DuyQQU/s320/6+Lupine+Towel.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lupine Towel</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMu0uocnEO-sOcyo564EoJAwyg-KGU4S5EAAWSOC_eHr2JBhGog8QTWQAb9HS3WyiIjtBHysSDojKO7Z5ZTb38nqOkxudH5y08DkPS8EHEzz0pbyRf8dUPK21uYGhVmpudMlETsoI4Btzc/s2048/7+Russian+Cloth.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMu0uocnEO-sOcyo564EoJAwyg-KGU4S5EAAWSOC_eHr2JBhGog8QTWQAb9HS3WyiIjtBHysSDojKO7Z5ZTb38nqOkxudH5y08DkPS8EHEzz0pbyRf8dUPK21uYGhVmpudMlETsoI4Btzc/s320/7+Russian+Cloth.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Russian Cloth Towel</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: white;">_________________________________________________________</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I have found over the years that there was warp left over from a towel run - not enough for a towel but too much to just throw away. I hemmed a bunch of these and they are bread cloth size.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpVnxeMuNBH239I0m6u5zUjFmVOp0pcYsVJEzkMoLRFChFIR5AFx2jkBC9n8IVTux9_suarnPLC_heSrJwTD6NvA6yoNeshe52_Pmkd8ncXTatI3j2B2MO5EDcP0yB_e156I6CjPOp7yrK/s4032/Breadcloth+3.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpVnxeMuNBH239I0m6u5zUjFmVOp0pcYsVJEzkMoLRFChFIR5AFx2jkBC9n8IVTux9_suarnPLC_heSrJwTD6NvA6yoNeshe52_Pmkd8ncXTatI3j2B2MO5EDcP0yB_e156I6CjPOp7yrK/s320/Breadcloth+3.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtZPzBWq_ObRSiLaBI8NqtjC_zijTbEaWXtr_oOveya4HbFwFFjHi-vHrM2DefdLKM_YGKwEssX103XXKvcXqsdc0hkY_kLwRedTWQX__Jcdy7cDH0oMnQcTAeV64nL48otDTMjMbNc9lc/s2048/Breadcloth+4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1718" data-original-width="2048" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtZPzBWq_ObRSiLaBI8NqtjC_zijTbEaWXtr_oOveya4HbFwFFjHi-vHrM2DefdLKM_YGKwEssX103XXKvcXqsdc0hkY_kLwRedTWQX__Jcdy7cDH0oMnQcTAeV64nL48otDTMjMbNc9lc/s320/Breadcloth+4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigwtdME_7JNh9AF8luMWegC0UY-nb0PmNTwJIi4-ZrEmgcjUguzTmQrC5fiq2mJ20Id511PAaSKF0odlrqLbSe6jK9Cjqi_5o6lcEcguu_xDR0lxvewubd2nMsDxeYz-w2KJbGHmFR3nX6/s2048/Breadcloth+5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1992" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigwtdME_7JNh9AF8luMWegC0UY-nb0PmNTwJIi4-ZrEmgcjUguzTmQrC5fiq2mJ20Id511PAaSKF0odlrqLbSe6jK9Cjqi_5o6lcEcguu_xDR0lxvewubd2nMsDxeYz-w2KJbGHmFR3nX6/s320/Breadcloth+5.jpg" width="311" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmjBfrOscDQEmzhnnjoXjhwb1T2LINivZseUPgFmtN0a5Oa1BPWw_RIvYrdw-AGTV-aH5lRC-2jc8dS558kC-sOoYREmrjb1igMWtgJ4ItXnLg_l0sRavoK2_1Jw4bJoa8zn0tNDRplZzj/s2048/Breadcloth+6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmjBfrOscDQEmzhnnjoXjhwb1T2LINivZseUPgFmtN0a5Oa1BPWw_RIvYrdw-AGTV-aH5lRC-2jc8dS558kC-sOoYREmrjb1igMWtgJ4ItXnLg_l0sRavoK2_1Jw4bJoa8zn0tNDRplZzj/s320/Breadcloth+6.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaleBIspthqfs3yy3MFPnZN0XB-edNSc2UOVft2_sL4yPbTSPLQnTdQ2nMo13Ib20T-kwaENGcsZpLlH5Qg4M5IgR5Z_GJBUFv-a5igr1fYpySC7yJsxeMYMfiV8U8Mmpv3fRqypIM5BXh/s2048/Breadcloth+7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2009" data-original-width="2048" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaleBIspthqfs3yy3MFPnZN0XB-edNSc2UOVft2_sL4yPbTSPLQnTdQ2nMo13Ib20T-kwaENGcsZpLlH5Qg4M5IgR5Z_GJBUFv-a5igr1fYpySC7yJsxeMYMfiV8U8Mmpv3fRqypIM5BXh/s320/Breadcloth+7.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Towels are a great way to play with color. I'm sure there will be more next year.</span></p>Ingridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12856580148171686040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105780883851300453.post-67252610174070784852021-11-08T11:12:00.003-08:002021-11-12T16:15:45.326-08:00More Pandemic Scarves<span style="font-family: georgia;">I guess we all thought that we would be long finished with COVID by now, maybe soon. But I have continued to wade through my yarn stash and have been making scarves while mostly at home. I've just about used all of my available tencel yarn and need to make more inroads into the silk. </span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">I started off 2021 finishing off the last of my Just Our Yarn 10/2 tencel yarn. For the first scarf, I need to use yarn from two different skeins fr the warp. The blue with a little maroon went nicely with the basic blue yarn that I had picked for the warp. This scarf was treaded to an extended point twill and woven with an advancing point.</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiZvbSo6b-MsgW09oQ4P2ICM_ppkUjWzC7PJZy5lTR_fH_-sIL9nBeK8eQGXVydl1311a-ABkeD9Oe_OUSO5bM98tkWZgnfFigOquGqERH8umFlzzmpDEz64RLaqUuYi5I8a7YC1qSrNzc/s2048/Blue+Red+Stripe+JOY+Scarf+2-2021.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiZvbSo6b-MsgW09oQ4P2ICM_ppkUjWzC7PJZy5lTR_fH_-sIL9nBeK8eQGXVydl1311a-ABkeD9Oe_OUSO5bM98tkWZgnfFigOquGqERH8umFlzzmpDEz64RLaqUuYi5I8a7YC1qSrNzc/s320/Blue+Red+Stripe+JOY+Scarf+2-2021.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">JOY Blue Scarf</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The last JOY scarf I was able to weave used more blue-green colors. For this scarf, I used a "M's" threading combined with the advancing point treadling.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd8Sv1khkSveKTn0FKDbuuvPyvESJ3Q9sf9XQ3lmyLTN9ml-RcrJcg20F0-k7g6XCDlFVIH9IQVIbigLdrKERg5kbow1US5JuumEvWQ5yrqSjYCcnYph42KJ9vhbjvpjCIpK9SRIxCoNAJ/s2048/JOY+Blue-Green+Scarf.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1433" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd8Sv1khkSveKTn0FKDbuuvPyvESJ3Q9sf9XQ3lmyLTN9ml-RcrJcg20F0-k7g6XCDlFVIH9IQVIbigLdrKERg5kbow1US5JuumEvWQ5yrqSjYCcnYph42KJ9vhbjvpjCIpK9SRIxCoNAJ/s320/JOY+Blue-Green+Scarf.jpg" width="224" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">JOY Blue-Green Scarf</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Having run out of JOY yarn, I looked around at what I did have. I had been working to reduce my stash by either selling or giving away yarns that I didn't think I would use in the near future - or had that "What was I thinking" feeling. I saw a couple of skeins of yarn - a Noro blend and somewhat heavy silk yarn. They looked good sitting next to each other, so I decided to give them a try as a scarf. The Noro was a rainbow of colors and the silk a bright pink. I used the Noro for the warp and the silk for the weft.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Noro was threaded to an extended point twill and woven with an advancing point treadling.</span></div><div><br /></div><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTV3qPrAqshbp1NosyQhgl6S6iL6hV7W1cn0DT-3tMs8vbehC5lNqzKXw8uOQePf_PogRypsvCH5asXCNqgmneisAzmwu2-UXRGP9iGSKfeCtaXi6KcyOcqobCQsBgfYVE3N1vBtzO9xvR/s2048/Pink+Kudo+Scarf.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTV3qPrAqshbp1NosyQhgl6S6iL6hV7W1cn0DT-3tMs8vbehC5lNqzKXw8uOQePf_PogRypsvCH5asXCNqgmneisAzmwu2-UXRGP9iGSKfeCtaXi6KcyOcqobCQsBgfYVE3N1vBtzO9xvR/s320/Pink+Kudo+Scarf.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pink Kudo Scarf</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieUSu2ILZhc-cXq4TdaVBHrwZBM1Pyf-ZvLO6DBbkgTTnm6zMJgrkN6taTwwk_UNYs1dMalP91eQH8Z83zz0E-GmaT5JxeXGLwl5kXoFSXOfopppXR0OudHTHBUURbVoiwxsjh13oKvXhX/s2048/Pink+Kudo+Scarf+detail.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieUSu2ILZhc-cXq4TdaVBHrwZBM1Pyf-ZvLO6DBbkgTTnm6zMJgrkN6taTwwk_UNYs1dMalP91eQH8Z83zz0E-GmaT5JxeXGLwl5kXoFSXOfopppXR0OudHTHBUURbVoiwxsjh13oKvXhX/w240-h320/Pink+Kudo+Scarf+detail.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pink Kudo Scarf Detail</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: white;">_______________________________________________________________________</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Digging back into the stash, I found several skeins of 5/2 tencel I bought from Teresa Ruch in Oregon. These were oranges and reds. The first scarf I wove was mostly orange. With this as warp, I used an 8/2 red tencel. The structure is an extended point twill on 8 shafts, woven with an advancing point treadling.</span></div><div><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4j1VphTwtVQMruBrbM8XdwpzMUlCZB_2bHrSYbjG4A0RnlWw8w_EUK8kI-JCXX3S0PF6R1VJ02FEcwKB1pu4-dL4Gm-1KkeHCxEq6I5AdtkQFFQ272nmZeEWjR3kH1cl3Qn8xd1VxKCJ7/s2048/Orange+Ruch+Scarf.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1426" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4j1VphTwtVQMruBrbM8XdwpzMUlCZB_2bHrSYbjG4A0RnlWw8w_EUK8kI-JCXX3S0PF6R1VJ02FEcwKB1pu4-dL4Gm-1KkeHCxEq6I5AdtkQFFQ272nmZeEWjR3kH1cl3Qn8xd1VxKCJ7/s320/Orange+Ruch+Scarf.jpg" width="223" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Orange Ruch Scarf</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4G0JKOxJyc9yGViRALq5_cVROZJiFFweX8gc8QUlCvBWEU4pH4QwpzFyDKBV0zGH0ykLcBd-kaGibTGxoY9eTGu_DIg5BwKrcFJLfs905YBX_P2R-g7J0Mw7q90ocFO51ox06rljGuNh4/s2048/Orange+Ruch+Scarf+Detail.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4G0JKOxJyc9yGViRALq5_cVROZJiFFweX8gc8QUlCvBWEU4pH4QwpzFyDKBV0zGH0ykLcBd-kaGibTGxoY9eTGu_DIg5BwKrcFJLfs905YBX_P2R-g7J0Mw7q90ocFO51ox06rljGuNh4/s320/Orange+Ruch+Scarf+Detail.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Orange ruch Scarf - detail</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: white;">_______________________________________________________________________</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The next scarf using Teresa Ruch tencel used two different color ways - one more red and the other more orange. The weft was the same 8/2 tencel as in the previous scarf. The structure was a sort of fancy twill on 8 shafts and an advancing point for the treadling. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge0CxJ2rh2xvbG4OmuJ7vaag5z4AxIGxs5XJNsjjaSZgy85UT2eElxrrlsvts0NNunqwTIKWigRpZQ3l0VTKGyXLSM4a-PtnsRijQdg3pw0sLSe1QYzv8OCWgUp7hB1EOzPcg2bItQ7CBU/s2048/Orange-Red+Teresa+Ruch+Scarf.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge0CxJ2rh2xvbG4OmuJ7vaag5z4AxIGxs5XJNsjjaSZgy85UT2eElxrrlsvts0NNunqwTIKWigRpZQ3l0VTKGyXLSM4a-PtnsRijQdg3pw0sLSe1QYzv8OCWgUp7hB1EOzPcg2bItQ7CBU/s320/Orange-Red+Teresa+Ruch+Scarf.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Orange-Red Ruch Scarf</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7YrbcSBT-ymMDDkDGnB4kv4R3PadoXfsY4NHQ1iDUZxHJHCAwrBk5nHKx-wxgAHkeUPHyhyphenhyphen25Ro8RDJeMEX4KpvfWFoHrNSgZJ3CnsW-yFwo1E8j7zU7ZJ3WII070Vt_cKjnxI3FiQyMO/s2048/Orange-Red+Teresa+Ruch+Scarf+detail.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7YrbcSBT-ymMDDkDGnB4kv4R3PadoXfsY4NHQ1iDUZxHJHCAwrBk5nHKx-wxgAHkeUPHyhyphenhyphen25Ro8RDJeMEX4KpvfWFoHrNSgZJ3CnsW-yFwo1E8j7zU7ZJ3WII070Vt_cKjnxI3FiQyMO/s320/Orange-Red+Teresa+Ruch+Scarf+detail.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Orange-Red Ruch Scarf - detail</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The last skein of Ruch tencel I had was very red. </span></div><div><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRft1n2D5U3U90whDR-hqOiaZT_fKCG2c3A9y_1EzmbqB3sr1BEBg6AkLMEVNHHua4ivsD1KDYLfsQVkyrNzqkhfsK_skDBMqwY6VCMxQB8CF0aFRcArCun5F9O4Mha9O414KrRkLFTXoz/s2048/Red+Ruch+Scarf.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRft1n2D5U3U90whDR-hqOiaZT_fKCG2c3A9y_1EzmbqB3sr1BEBg6AkLMEVNHHua4ivsD1KDYLfsQVkyrNzqkhfsK_skDBMqwY6VCMxQB8CF0aFRcArCun5F9O4Mha9O414KrRkLFTXoz/s320/Red+Ruch+Scarf.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red Ruch Scarf</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB9tLROC95YYPOw6qFO0vClD67YSsxlNH0jyjfsYEHcowqfACCiE3IZt-GTfAVR44ZkK14KNs0A3H15ERa6r3XvqUejd5tUt_FR2kWhfqhCYEE3934rY4syLZDbxJH9jgIs4Y1L5x3DIjS/s2048/Red+Ruch+Scarf+-+detail.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1468" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB9tLROC95YYPOw6qFO0vClD67YSsxlNH0jyjfsYEHcowqfACCiE3IZt-GTfAVR44ZkK14KNs0A3H15ERa6r3XvqUejd5tUt_FR2kWhfqhCYEE3934rY4syLZDbxJH9jgIs4Y1L5x3DIjS/s320/Red+Ruch+Scarf+-+detail.jpg" width="229" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red Ruch Scarf - detail</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: white;">___________________________________________________</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">With no more tencel to play with, I started back to my stash. The county fair was approaching. The scarf categories in the Weaving Division had recently been split into three - protein fiber, plant fiber and man-made fiber groups. I didn't have an entry for the plant fiber section, so I decided to find some cotton yarn. I had several skeins of Cascade Yarns Ultrapima fine cotton yarn in peach and light peach. I haven't been a big fan of using cotton for scarves, but I thought I would give it a try. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The structure was fancy on 8 shafts with a point treadling. The hand is a bit heavier than the scarves I usually weave, but not overly so. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid-dpjS76Dm8fkSLHFw8FhMFZARH3ig988CYaf7oyOcqo0LvZBTYEv-Kk7XSne6XqqEINrDk8EExoqP38n2A2AEdjGSNeVJTXkBDcbWAMzpjCjSzFyaVC67Yeo-1jcHLZMX4swff5sdiR1/s2048/Peach+Scarf+7-2021.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1240" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid-dpjS76Dm8fkSLHFw8FhMFZARH3ig988CYaf7oyOcqo0LvZBTYEv-Kk7XSne6XqqEINrDk8EExoqP38n2A2AEdjGSNeVJTXkBDcbWAMzpjCjSzFyaVC67Yeo-1jcHLZMX4swff5sdiR1/s320/Peach+Scarf+7-2021.jpg" width="194" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peach Cotton Scarf</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">This Fall, the opportunity came up to take a virtual class in Deflected Doubleweave with Natalie Drummond. The students were from all over the East Coast of the US and Canada and I knew only one person, so it was fun to take a class at home and meet a great group of weavers. The class was fun and much different from other types of weaving I've done. After samples, I wove a scarf from the class warp. The warp was 5/2 tencel in two different color ways - one solid and the other variegated from Teresa Ruch and 20/2 tussah silk from Jane Stafford. The weft was an 8/2 cotton and 20/2 tussah silk. </span></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizu8FqHmfzt9GeChuPcqOBkBc5cx7MtLD2Sv6ql_CrDN6bFyyNqsftxoheDa-1wIGAYLtYrSCn__FU62tnBKn1JWNkWkmmOZGH411FdczsUJ0lVH3KEJyftYQ0XtSNOrTpC1yku0R2ljAX/s2048/DDW+Scarf.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizu8FqHmfzt9GeChuPcqOBkBc5cx7MtLD2Sv6ql_CrDN6bFyyNqsftxoheDa-1wIGAYLtYrSCn__FU62tnBKn1JWNkWkmmOZGH411FdczsUJ0lVH3KEJyftYQ0XtSNOrTpC1yku0R2ljAX/s320/DDW+Scarf.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deflected Doubleweave Scarf</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">It's fun to look back at different styles of scarves I've woven during the pandemic. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSiS3jsK3q8FBlyKHxzfKZfSycyfvMT-nOsYqIUHTqkTvC9ptzbLUQY7vX1wXepbndqbh7nypcCpCqtSWqC1h-CIu-gWDgWFesS2Xff32UOq9mMODe8xtsWTlvMIWIlgvSDRb-MEbzmzQW/s2048/Green+JOY+197+1.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSiS3jsK3q8FBlyKHxzfKZfSycyfvMT-nOsYqIUHTqkTvC9ptzbLUQY7vX1wXepbndqbh7nypcCpCqtSWqC1h-CIu-gWDgWFesS2Xff32UOq9mMODe8xtsWTlvMIWIlgvSDRb-MEbzmzQW/s320/Green+JOY+197+1.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">JOY Green Scarf</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_EI3bddbHV_f19h_skRYie8mFDzIqi7uOf-5S4pmCTc1TtGPqDq0_rIVTyljF6ul7N5mv842mCnlKlVYHIsPr-_jBqV3-c63yL99Kv5GrXY5n4q2fxJRaoy-X9JyAJV5vED8-GjCMjY7Z/s2048/Pink+Silk+206+1.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_EI3bddbHV_f19h_skRYie8mFDzIqi7uOf-5S4pmCTc1TtGPqDq0_rIVTyljF6ul7N5mv842mCnlKlVYHIsPr-_jBqV3-c63yL99Kv5GrXY5n4q2fxJRaoy-X9JyAJV5vED8-GjCMjY7Z/s320/Pink+Silk+206+1.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pink Silk Scarf</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="color: white;">__________________________________________________________________</span><br /><div><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNF53_kHeewNxD6gkeHGJeT8dCGZc-2NnBoFOLN8Z-EF9g71_rfYq9Q-h9Tg55rL3Dsf-DkdeuBnIKCHS8A7gV4_Kpzd_x1_xLOiTeKT556pjtZcJhu5v_wgBfjnnFflWunSjvt57MmVXz/s2048/Green-Fuchsia+198++1.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNF53_kHeewNxD6gkeHGJeT8dCGZc-2NnBoFOLN8Z-EF9g71_rfYq9Q-h9Tg55rL3Dsf-DkdeuBnIKCHS8A7gV4_Kpzd_x1_xLOiTeKT556pjtZcJhu5v_wgBfjnnFflWunSjvt57MmVXz/s320/Green-Fuchsia+198++1.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">JOY Green Fuchsia Scarf</td></tr></tbody></table></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZJs9Fu1EJ3pZqDLDo8A0dIC1N44quQA9VkZQfDBJLmBke2CaMLnalS3gJ5qEOLePAzB8_OhwqArjzWnA0ZPb3tjYE1EbHWE3Qwz1yBIe4oDDY6RO-b4eMGOwsrwz8oVplAXp9SHmcS6ws/s2048/Green+JOY+197+1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZJs9Fu1EJ3pZqDLDo8A0dIC1N44quQA9VkZQfDBJLmBke2CaMLnalS3gJ5qEOLePAzB8_OhwqArjzWnA0ZPb3tjYE1EbHWE3Qwz1yBIe4oDDY6RO-b4eMGOwsrwz8oVplAXp9SHmcS6ws/s320/Green+JOY+197+1.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">JOY Green Scarf</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-PpgA_i2SuWJHqxybGM4ta8YCcL6J629qQpvtrwhwamBlH7nvtM5AZ5X8lfiI036pFZWcKKfh47WbxiKLeJ3AYnSQC6qojvmG5CxVZPnHUdyug89m8mcUDLp99p9a2XFKKRKqusWdStGV/s2048/Coral+Green+196+1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-PpgA_i2SuWJHqxybGM4ta8YCcL6J629qQpvtrwhwamBlH7nvtM5AZ5X8lfiI036pFZWcKKfh47WbxiKLeJ3AYnSQC6qojvmG5CxVZPnHUdyug89m8mcUDLp99p9a2XFKKRKqusWdStGV/s320/Coral+Green+196+1.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coral Green Silk-Merino Scarf</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">I'm sure there will be much more scarf exploration in the future.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div><br /></div>Ingridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12856580148171686040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105780883851300453.post-56874755768714012602021-09-25T06:23:00.002-07:002021-09-25T06:23:16.161-07:00COVID Weaving<span style="font-family: georgia;">The one thing the COVID-19 pandemic has given me is time to weave. It’s amazing how much extra time one gets when all your meetings are just “down the hall” rather than a car ride away. We are all tired of the images of that virus appearing everywhere, but in 2020 it held a bit of fascination from a design perspective. </span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> In the past several years, I have been studying how to use ProWeave software to create weaving designs. Last year, I also was interested to see if I could create a pictural representation of that COVID-19 graphic that had been holding our attention.
Using ProWeave, I graphed a picture of the molecule. From that depiction, I was able to “superimpose” weave structures on the positive and negative faces. My “go-to” is a 1/3 and 3/1 straight twill. These designs were created for 24 shafts.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfs_lwlQh4vKZwnVJMUQaroveMnnXTJwH_B4oJ5hqr00czywmhwLKmDbdunv6G9RxM0NNVa2FyfKR8Ap1WCdjh6VYLGgadd9cxrXrKW4aUBKH0QWrZOrYLnFH7bX6eoTLxAJ61s6HrEZm6/s337/Covid+design.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="337" data-original-width="313" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfs_lwlQh4vKZwnVJMUQaroveMnnXTJwH_B4oJ5hqr00czywmhwLKmDbdunv6G9RxM0NNVa2FyfKR8Ap1WCdjh6VYLGgadd9cxrXrKW4aUBKH0QWrZOrYLnFH7bX6eoTLxAJ61s6HrEZm6/w186-h200/Covid+design.jpg" width="186" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">COVID-19 Graphic</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpdrHQB61PVHisEeJsLq37SEFpjj_LSfQA4BXuQa1AFNhCl7j4pm_qyi8ufrp7ieOqgP8SnGK9V9CIwA0CbheUSo_Ku1GkC-fBevisgj3_beRAJ3MOIfG-YKfnf7YmkifkNeRAttUkzlpP/s494/Covid+design+3-1+twill+1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="494" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpdrHQB61PVHisEeJsLq37SEFpjj_LSfQA4BXuQa1AFNhCl7j4pm_qyi8ufrp7ieOqgP8SnGK9V9CIwA0CbheUSo_Ku1GkC-fBevisgj3_beRAJ3MOIfG-YKfnf7YmkifkNeRAttUkzlpP/w200-h199/Covid+design+3-1+twill+1.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="200" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1/3 3/1 Straight Twill Draft</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">I also designed drafts for 1/3 3/1 broken twill.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Qx531tac36DCR8UlqMcZId95Ju6XwMBQIQQt-sWi4yjqJEJPhl0cbAWLq7oqV2Sp7FzGSDpLBCuYe1_fjRww-0B5IayDi6yFVCff4H4jbysk2OABs5vj6JF8XuKMi5YrDicTZMyQ99Yl/s635/Covid+broken+twill+drawdown.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="635" data-original-width="607" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Qx531tac36DCR8UlqMcZId95Ju6XwMBQIQQt-sWi4yjqJEJPhl0cbAWLq7oqV2Sp7FzGSDpLBCuYe1_fjRww-0B5IayDi6yFVCff4H4jbysk2OABs5vj6JF8XuKMi5YrDicTZMyQ99Yl/w191-h200/Covid+broken+twill+drawdown.JPG" width="191" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />1/3 3/1 Broken Twill Draft</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The straight twill was too elongated but the broken twill was getting closer to what I had in mind. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO4P8OmV3VbPKq7lr15TNZCB1CL2ij65LK8lJ6zYhZI5jr2p98YcYX0RvdMeFtT6LG_ItF1IrcNt3LLmzs_P20-8kR5BquYZlhSkcoz4NYTzmrlxKdXG07RV1qCuUZTLtdamc3Q6-t0n_4/s2048/Broken+Twill+Covids.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO4P8OmV3VbPKq7lr15TNZCB1CL2ij65LK8lJ6zYhZI5jr2p98YcYX0RvdMeFtT6LG_ItF1IrcNt3LLmzs_P20-8kR5BquYZlhSkcoz4NYTzmrlxKdXG07RV1qCuUZTLtdamc3Q6-t0n_4/w200-h150/Broken+Twill+Covids.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />1/3 3/1 Broken Twill Sample</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">I then tried an 8-end satin structure. ( </span><b style="font-family: georgia;">Note:</b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The draft shows the underside as I wove the samples.)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGGtURO9N4Hg4sJ7cTuOf60Z37Y02KGDKTV_1DWlOPczb6x64Kodok89NvzwP_3cKmre_AnH_4H_e43K0BD-FG6Q2lhc1_7qIOzs5VL665TpgJ4VsrHLSeFxsl1fvJ4u2LrcOQRVRLBwvV/s2048/Covid+satin+detail+both+sides.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGGtURO9N4Hg4sJ7cTuOf60Z37Y02KGDKTV_1DWlOPczb6x64Kodok89NvzwP_3cKmre_AnH_4H_e43K0BD-FG6Q2lhc1_7qIOzs5VL665TpgJ4VsrHLSeFxsl1fvJ4u2LrcOQRVRLBwvV/w200-h150/Covid+satin+detail+both+sides.jpg" width="200" /></a><br /><br /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Front and Back Sides of Satin Sample </td></tr></tbody></table><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXIGhDijVQBlrGo3zJ3NOG67LMypsxPJQ5708fhGRkzq9rlXotn2CXWjW-9mxgeE9XvxkLwvcvIhJbnjO_LSkKc9T4_mE3-qH4oTHq1MPjIX6100xyIoZmJrYYLejq3qcQ9sVtuHXE-lbd/s732/Red+COVID+Satin+Drawdown.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="609" data-original-width="732" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXIGhDijVQBlrGo3zJ3NOG67LMypsxPJQ5708fhGRkzq9rlXotn2CXWjW-9mxgeE9XvxkLwvcvIhJbnjO_LSkKc9T4_mE3-qH4oTHq1MPjIX6100xyIoZmJrYYLejq3qcQ9sVtuHXE-lbd/w200-h166/Red+COVID+Satin+Drawdown.JPG" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />8-End Satin COVID-19 Draft</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: white;">_</span></span></div><div><span style="color: white;">*****************************************************************************</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Although this structure worked to get the visual effect I was hoping for, there are 7 end floats.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> But I wove samples for a sample exchange and one towel. I hadn't woven satin before and I realized that the sett wasn't quite right, but this towel, woven with 10/2 perle cotton is soft and a bit luxurious.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir7SsjpGgLTKbJf2Kzcug2hAcax4M15OLKfB80gPPN7zbZliOccn6T9ifewOLceAym0rBqATgSjh-gMgo1-Ee8u3P40Nxy1pxf-kHxBnaYay3r8_zGkcObzCmZiRAG0d6w-DGJ-Z1TpKhJ/s2048/Covid+Towel+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1331" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir7SsjpGgLTKbJf2Kzcug2hAcax4M15OLKfB80gPPN7zbZliOccn6T9ifewOLceAym0rBqATgSjh-gMgo1-Ee8u3P40Nxy1pxf-kHxBnaYay3r8_zGkcObzCmZiRAG0d6w-DGJ-Z1TpKhJ/s320/Covid+Towel+2.jpg" width="208" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> <br />COVID Towel</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">I'm not sure if I will spend any more time with this design, but the technique is an interesting one to achieve images in my weaving.</span></div><div><br /></div>Ingridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12856580148171686040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105780883851300453.post-46768697194960268282020-11-14T10:46:00.005-08:002020-11-14T10:46:35.732-08:00Scarves During a Pandemic<p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Finally for this phase of the pandemic, scarves are really the true story. In March, I wove a silk merino scarf in colors that weren't really my thing. This yarn was 50-50 merino and silk blend. I used it in the warp and weft, weaving an extended point twill design.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWeQsSpgXF8CXzT2-1fkkGbXA5emcvI2dqoyRQjkjNYfj7_viPw6nYBlTOt5WUrMcF3tECHWayWXZpohyphenhyphenCrMJ3X72g_ecKbL4El45QJ5pCawfBw39BtTZsQqPncQKSplFmnk3buIosQe_l/s2048/Coral+Green+196+1.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWeQsSpgXF8CXzT2-1fkkGbXA5emcvI2dqoyRQjkjNYfj7_viPw6nYBlTOt5WUrMcF3tECHWayWXZpohyphenhyphenCrMJ3X72g_ecKbL4El45QJ5pCawfBw39BtTZsQqPncQKSplFmnk3buIosQe_l/s320/Coral+Green+196+1.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coral-Green Merino Silk<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSDODjRZQW0J35LnpWPE3n32D7hukQDnMRLbxPUUzqE9qNa-q35H7kLa02sI2aXl-C5VG5uYHap0wCdRHRTi4P0SRYiVN-AxLEdeZKoEDkc643r2FXrO9HKsumwPBsokfKcO4BFF2mboi9/s2048/Coral+Green+196+2.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSDODjRZQW0J35LnpWPE3n32D7hukQDnMRLbxPUUzqE9qNa-q35H7kLa02sI2aXl-C5VG5uYHap0wCdRHRTi4P0SRYiVN-AxLEdeZKoEDkc643r2FXrO9HKsumwPBsokfKcO4BFF2mboi9/s320/Coral+Green+196+2.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coral-Green Merino Silk - detail</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;">***************************************************************************************</span></p><p><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;">******************************************************************************************</span><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;">*************************************************************</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">When we went into self-isolation, I thought it was finally time to start using the good yarn. I had been promising myself for about five or six years to do that. I was headed to the silk yarn I have but on the way got a bit diverted by tencel yarns. I really thought it might be a safer choice on the way to using silk. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Over the years, I had bought several (read many) skeins of Just Our Yarns 10/2 tencel yarns. They had fabulous colors and encouraged a mix and match approach to weaving with them. Sadly, the company is no longer in business, but there were those skeins in the yarn bin. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I approached the first scarf in tencel with a bit of trepidation. I hadn't woven with it before, so I wasn't sure what to expect. After a little research and discussion with other weavers, I sett the warp at 36 epi. I chose a fuchsia yarn for the warp and blue for the weft. These yarns are all variegated, so there is lots of variation in the yarn colors. The warp was threaded in a fancy point twill and the tie-up was a 2-2-1-1-1-1 twill (as all of these scarves use)</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I found that the scarf almost wove itself - so effortlessly. I was amazed. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCj5EmqJFV7RnDHpkHfDoyb830QQBelwwzj6nlIqsFYDNObZmFZ4u2CtQfpaPGk0JVgI0er8e7GCeSWd2aPINs3mBVLAYNhAI5xk_xxfuwVXs0FHzLV36RFjHctbT761MwCfOyRWgzXGSJ/s2048/Blue-Fuchsia+205+1.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCj5EmqJFV7RnDHpkHfDoyb830QQBelwwzj6nlIqsFYDNObZmFZ4u2CtQfpaPGk0JVgI0er8e7GCeSWd2aPINs3mBVLAYNhAI5xk_xxfuwVXs0FHzLV36RFjHctbT761MwCfOyRWgzXGSJ/s320/Blue-Fuchsia+205+1.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fuchsia Blue</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFjCwaEVyBksIJktf6eRe5V0SrHJnKS9CDZ91vCcJJowTssbX9WyUUuT6Fw6cL4udnuREYEVxEo2On5a3m-eT3MHlx0FU4bA-PShtMBuoLVD4MUgTv3qm5abdIVRuEjd4nNQyfH4wiWaLz/s2048/Blue-Fuchsia+205+2.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFjCwaEVyBksIJktf6eRe5V0SrHJnKS9CDZ91vCcJJowTssbX9WyUUuT6Fw6cL4udnuREYEVxEo2On5a3m-eT3MHlx0FU4bA-PShtMBuoLVD4MUgTv3qm5abdIVRuEjd4nNQyfH4wiWaLz/s320/Blue-Fuchsia+205+2.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fuchsia Blue - detail<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: white;">
******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I was so happy with the results of the previous scarf and how easily it wove, I decided to weave another one. The second scarf used a green variegated warp and a rust var. weft. It was threaded as an extended point twill. </span></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOsKKdPVRAes0KVRlpSsWXR3labNojHeWK_RQ1Gz13d5bcM5ZJ7d_inVVDrLZtLBIm5INf57txuIpVOW8loH1SS83Gv8_oIeBLfshlpec-l0l5Ff8-y4fMus7IHyGlO1gTMoUgYcoRNM3Q/s2048/Orange-Green+207+2.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOsKKdPVRAes0KVRlpSsWXR3labNojHeWK_RQ1Gz13d5bcM5ZJ7d_inVVDrLZtLBIm5INf57txuIpVOW8loH1SS83Gv8_oIeBLfshlpec-l0l5Ff8-y4fMus7IHyGlO1gTMoUgYcoRNM3Q/s320/Orange-Green+207+2.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Green-Orange</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOasB7ciebDZZlaViefgIfKQs1yGC9Voadj5Zvc2NYdm7Y7M_O5mxbjrUcud8g3r9Xegk7RupVjCC4tpGJoNOcIiZ-OeAcb4n-IIxbn_AP-bAysUR9L_2aNz2si2fOjRf96V2m25eo1PcR/s2048/Orange-Green+207+3.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOasB7ciebDZZlaViefgIfKQs1yGC9Voadj5Zvc2NYdm7Y7M_O5mxbjrUcud8g3r9Xegk7RupVjCC4tpGJoNOcIiZ-OeAcb4n-IIxbn_AP-bAysUR9L_2aNz2si2fOjRf96V2m25eo1PcR/s320/Orange-Green+207+3.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Green-Orange - detail<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;">*****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************</span></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Things were moving so smoothly, I kept weaving scarves. The next one was a different green variegated warp with a fuchsia variegated weft. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3a90fGfPloFnPOYOmuETV177xZII4d9F-qqpnl4qotJ4FW3i0EmqbfHvphIFT8bobDGMtmL66S9cTFAO4_ei1l5DJjKWAN46yuWquQOG8XIxbJEbkRm3DPQ2mobjlEh9ejX40PHcv8yar/s2048/Green-Fuchsia+198++1.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3a90fGfPloFnPOYOmuETV177xZII4d9F-qqpnl4qotJ4FW3i0EmqbfHvphIFT8bobDGMtmL66S9cTFAO4_ei1l5DJjKWAN46yuWquQOG8XIxbJEbkRm3DPQ2mobjlEh9ejX40PHcv8yar/s320/Green-Fuchsia+198++1.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Green Fuchsia<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRXSn52o52-TOpvhbn1-LHmyxjxaBtPNoWbmQzUFl_SzYJSzJ1OjbU7uqc9svkBpUGGgfjT5rpSotoHZUzSm_0QRXpiZX1yCjZ3vDIDuCsaGfX1jGeanog7bwQF3L6h07O2hywvLizp36F/s2048/Green-Fuchsia+198++2.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRXSn52o52-TOpvhbn1-LHmyxjxaBtPNoWbmQzUFl_SzYJSzJ1OjbU7uqc9svkBpUGGgfjT5rpSotoHZUzSm_0QRXpiZX1yCjZ3vDIDuCsaGfX1jGeanog7bwQF3L6h07O2hywvLizp36F/s320/Green-Fuchsia+198++2.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Green Fuchsia - detail</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: white;">***********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************</span><span style="color: white;">*</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">I kept going - it was May and I located the blue 10/2 tencel yarn I had. This scarf had both a blue warp and weft of slightly different colorways. It was threaded as a point twill. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVh4c-QI5WQtPh38-XDZkBvzBJlVUSjqWvCzyV8H9Soyj8FKl-UT3yUuGqo8ZShQ7wEFT68rdeVuviMWK4HO4VEtC-d8aVEg_n43a9zXtCK4CDehs5CT0Kn5SmjADA4O48nde8c7CDQ-V-/s2048/Blues+JOY+199+1.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVh4c-QI5WQtPh38-XDZkBvzBJlVUSjqWvCzyV8H9Soyj8FKl-UT3yUuGqo8ZShQ7wEFT68rdeVuviMWK4HO4VEtC-d8aVEg_n43a9zXtCK4CDehs5CT0Kn5SmjADA4O48nde8c7CDQ-V-/s320/Blues+JOY+199+1.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blues<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgosExp5sLG6SnUQ-WoT4oqmujnwjrK26vejCOU_3TGK3iONB4e2v3MH_-rOYz-P1b7m2l8HU9sYqQt8CCebLlZmP1feZGV55H-jK7pvBRTBOXyvukYOffj_QzKD42PXEv1OA0wbI3eFW9_/s2048/Blues+JOY+199+2.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgosExp5sLG6SnUQ-WoT4oqmujnwjrK26vejCOU_3TGK3iONB4e2v3MH_-rOYz-P1b7m2l8HU9sYqQt8CCebLlZmP1feZGV55H-jK7pvBRTBOXyvukYOffj_QzKD42PXEv1OA0wbI3eFW9_/s320/Blues+JOY+199+2.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blues - detail<br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;">**************************************************************************************</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">It was getting to be summer and a friend asked me if I ever wove scarves without fringe. No, I hadn't because it was harder to get a good edge. but this did get me thinking about doubleweave hems - a good way to have a nice clean edge without the extra bulk of a folded over hem. For me details about that adventure, check out a previous blog post: </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">https://foothillweaving.blogspot.com/2020/09/scarves-with-doubleweave-hems.html .</span></div><div><p><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;">******************************************************************************************</span></p></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">I wove two scarves with doubleweave hems. This second attempt had twill hem as well as a twill design for the scarf itself. For this scarf, I used the leftover yarn from the previous scarves as the warp. I alternated two colors until I ran out of one or the other and added a new color when that left off. Since there were similar colors in all of the yarns, they all went together. The threading was a straight draw on eight shafts and the tie-up was a 2-2-1-1-1-1 twill. Although it only needed eight shafts, in order to create the twill doubleweave hem, I needed 16 treadles, so I wove this on my dobby loom. </span></div><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrM_Xz2MQsUoeFexeMewSjMUZ7J_IxRngeiL-PhLLzO1KluWF2WQ_z99hd6ZEZfJI-YaFVfb99hHnwbsQQ8MUdJVNBx77ooRRT3ghALSJTQcZk2vSW2-BT_yvqc4T9BrKkuqLiCO6WT50W/s2048/Blue+Fushia+Tubular+205+1.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrM_Xz2MQsUoeFexeMewSjMUZ7J_IxRngeiL-PhLLzO1KluWF2WQ_z99hd6ZEZfJI-YaFVfb99hHnwbsQQ8MUdJVNBx77ooRRT3ghALSJTQcZk2vSW2-BT_yvqc4T9BrKkuqLiCO6WT50W/s320/Blue+Fushia+Tubular+205+1.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blue-Fuchsia w/ Doubleweave hem <br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy0yH1bb5oi6A_xdTa_xUHMKvgcyHgdlTQOGU_S-KawaX8Iv_nC_ox6YSX6SgfUH1Mx57qv2iQjqNMiLbXrkhUU3EGSo7Bb0YqZhyljCaLEKCVEoUGSEUIoKY03u4rPmf9DIJlkj-zgCtd/s2048/Blue+Fushia+Tubular+205+2.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy0yH1bb5oi6A_xdTa_xUHMKvgcyHgdlTQOGU_S-KawaX8Iv_nC_ox6YSX6SgfUH1Mx57qv2iQjqNMiLbXrkhUU3EGSo7Bb0YqZhyljCaLEKCVEoUGSEUIoKY03u4rPmf9DIJlkj-zgCtd/s320/Blue+Fushia+Tubular+205+2.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blue-Fuchsia - detail</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;">*****************************************************************************************</span><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;">******************************************************************************************</span><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;">******************************************************************************************</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Having gotten really comfortable with 10/2 tencel, I decided it was time to weave a scarf with silk. I chose a pink variegated 20/2 silk for the warp and purple 20/2 from Redfish Dye Works for the weft. I used an advancing point twill on eight shafts for the threading and a different one for the treadling. After consulting sources and weaving friends, I sett the warp at 30 epi. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI2cy6nHtAbYdkBAMF_VPZ-QwZV8Ml_6BQInpl1APY28799Fa6GYLdJkfZAS9oEGs5J9kyAfEDE6SjE6dY3oB0tHq5UQh9iI0q0Esz1yz9I_8w-q7Qu7jTN2ciHkIcPUblQ2Go7ON2zgkG/s817/Pink+silk+scarf+8-2020+drawdown.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="817" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI2cy6nHtAbYdkBAMF_VPZ-QwZV8Ml_6BQInpl1APY28799Fa6GYLdJkfZAS9oEGs5J9kyAfEDE6SjE6dY3oB0tHq5UQh9iI0q0Esz1yz9I_8w-q7Qu7jTN2ciHkIcPUblQ2Go7ON2zgkG/s320/Pink+silk+scarf+8-2020+drawdown.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pink Silk Drawdown</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfIIo5WCZigractV4G1FSTgpLafvOKLzyqbjR9Bw0eyAY37rWQRUNz2AyYVqSW2fo11KbFd7UiAahk6PV-1oQK9a9sVSnlLPd9AnS-_J9dLDg-SD5o9BWrTQ4fz2z1sC705IdvrujL4PYF/s2048/Pink+Silk+206+2.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfIIo5WCZigractV4G1FSTgpLafvOKLzyqbjR9Bw0eyAY37rWQRUNz2AyYVqSW2fo11KbFd7UiAahk6PV-1oQK9a9sVSnlLPd9AnS-_J9dLDg-SD5o9BWrTQ4fz2z1sC705IdvrujL4PYF/s320/Pink+Silk+206+2.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pink Silk - Detail<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUOtMdb_fS6cKM5L-vMc9Di4kTK8fRmaVLdB_7MqW8gRWQPIdQxA80G-zP1H2wGX58DPArGXQVkKnJ35otYzhB86CVbQO9wTkEyJZ0N9VgWOAqG-w-_yzxYHCD0gmyIB9SSQUKdf-nTdJp/s2048/Pink+Silk+206+1.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUOtMdb_fS6cKM5L-vMc9Di4kTK8fRmaVLdB_7MqW8gRWQPIdQxA80G-zP1H2wGX58DPArGXQVkKnJ35otYzhB86CVbQO9wTkEyJZ0N9VgWOAqG-w-_yzxYHCD0gmyIB9SSQUKdf-nTdJp/s320/Pink+Silk+206+1.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pink Silk</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;">******************************************************************************************</span><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;">******************************************************************************************</span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">The next scarf was in tencel. I chose an orange-green variegated for the warp and green-blue for the weft. The threading and treadling was the same as the silk scarf above. </span></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmnTmx4EXeFMglLuibtzRizfaafc3LTgkJ7RcCilyVPoQAYFo2Jwy7-PKjJBCAP8ZLtYAD69wQj7gxpzGGhixiFqOGfKbZoL0XXkGRPO0QZYdBNM4bBzzU6_Tkds4CphluKff4njiNk04L/s2048/Orange-Green+207+2.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmnTmx4EXeFMglLuibtzRizfaafc3LTgkJ7RcCilyVPoQAYFo2Jwy7-PKjJBCAP8ZLtYAD69wQj7gxpzGGhixiFqOGfKbZoL0XXkGRPO0QZYdBNM4bBzzU6_Tkds4CphluKff4njiNk04L/s320/Orange-Green+207+2.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Green-Orange<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-x94pXIAJ4sKvm6MsOSzd4Gork10sKRFz3sQ6bJ0JTtYckFCTZJRJaNNRqi7q0CsY684-dtdEwto3Aj2OMnFjnvVPQQVAIsK3btqYv0Ruo3kwj5PK78SCKGGZ7xGEpYsiQgTIMfqb8pow/s2048/Orange-Green+207+3.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-x94pXIAJ4sKvm6MsOSzd4Gork10sKRFz3sQ6bJ0JTtYckFCTZJRJaNNRqi7q0CsY684-dtdEwto3Aj2OMnFjnvVPQQVAIsK3btqYv0Ruo3kwj5PK78SCKGGZ7xGEpYsiQgTIMfqb8pow/s320/Orange-Green+207+3.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Green-Orange - detail<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: white;">*********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">The last scarf came off the loom this past week. It was woven with two color ways of blue 10/2 tencel. The threading was an extended point twill and the treadling an advancing point twill.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-T2FQvTatU9qyVoIftxWhp4wFR3HieonHh3fWctbgBaBh3xKC5YfbSZmDTYk8zFtbMD6aG8VX90B7_M356Swwghr_GvGx2MNS5OEg6b8fZD3j9Cb3TvgiCX8eTAsQt-CHeXRe_HiZoKYz/s2048/Blue+Maroon+209+1.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-T2FQvTatU9qyVoIftxWhp4wFR3HieonHh3fWctbgBaBh3xKC5YfbSZmDTYk8zFtbMD6aG8VX90B7_M356Swwghr_GvGx2MNS5OEg6b8fZD3j9Cb3TvgiCX8eTAsQt-CHeXRe_HiZoKYz/s320/Blue+Maroon+209+1.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blue-Maroon<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEina3SPX2bH4sXUt6O952E7bAVUpRv8bggzTLKPmWr_uNODPQygdYrEDW82wJFRYokX9EUNIAlqxMrAJ_6UprNGIHh7BGw4ua5sG09ThmmylFFNOieXXHIYHbMCrWDGf9KzxxvJfwr3ksBX/s2048/Blue+Maroon+209+2.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEina3SPX2bH4sXUt6O952E7bAVUpRv8bggzTLKPmWr_uNODPQygdYrEDW82wJFRYokX9EUNIAlqxMrAJ_6UprNGIHh7BGw4ua5sG09ThmmylFFNOieXXHIYHbMCrWDGf9KzxxvJfwr3ksBX/s320/Blue+Maroon+209+2.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blue-Maroon - detail<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;">******************************************************************************************</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I've enjoyed delving into the use of tencel and a little exploration with silk. I am sure there will be more scarves like these in the future. I had been weaving scarves exclusively with wool and wool blends. Here are a few examples of wool scarves. The orange is a blend of sock yarns. It was threaded as an extended point twill with the 2-2-1-1-1-1 tie-up. In addition to teh twisted fringe, I added some beads.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj74w7twdA80lDWsAdB7oMWeN0p0NAXRyxr6OYqr22X2CZLBlEb_2nPCF-3hHed0frPEk1KU13EetZbY8j_ghyphenhyphenroRJoSqUzKKfWkANaV3dmXJ_rjbl6aruB7hhU6MmN_1N5-jXwoUzgucXv/s2048/Fire+1+1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj74w7twdA80lDWsAdB7oMWeN0p0NAXRyxr6OYqr22X2CZLBlEb_2nPCF-3hHed0frPEk1KU13EetZbY8j_ghyphenhyphenroRJoSqUzKKfWkANaV3dmXJ_rjbl6aruB7hhU6MmN_1N5-jXwoUzgucXv/s320/Fire+1+1.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fire 1<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVHjwPstiIosz2cxR705W-vZU0F0uY_c8DQhNbIy910707S382hnKYzTReg_CmGKcGAPWO69tYUC4LR-jRe3aQf97TbHczYuiIxLRNJXgtyZnfN9og80QzWVKoqtOIEITj1ci52psbkGHi/s2048/Fire+1+2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVHjwPstiIosz2cxR705W-vZU0F0uY_c8DQhNbIy910707S382hnKYzTReg_CmGKcGAPWO69tYUC4LR-jRe3aQf97TbHczYuiIxLRNJXgtyZnfN9og80QzWVKoqtOIEITj1ci52psbkGHi/s320/Fire+1+2.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fire 1 - detail<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white;">*****************************************************************************************</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">These two scarves were woven using yarn that was dyed by Vice Yarn while it was in a knitting blank. The yarn is then unknitted and wound in a cake skein. The yarn is crimped from the process which gives the finished scarf an interesting texture. These two scarves were threaded as undulating twills. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGiaxzilYxJqGGBttV-ekUJTtCKR-_31U7RRVCMB2Rt31XbUSCY-2q6l6tDnKJoqfWnuLxL9lnlFOFnDD-EJLBzD3l_BC_ox_SyV4N-blZuNAT5OwNmUmZ0aakDplyQOAk_4vsUY1U1fIY/s2048/Into+the+Whorl+and+Vice+yarn+scarves+w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1685" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGiaxzilYxJqGGBttV-ekUJTtCKR-_31U7RRVCMB2Rt31XbUSCY-2q6l6tDnKJoqfWnuLxL9lnlFOFnDD-EJLBzD3l_BC_ox_SyV4N-blZuNAT5OwNmUmZ0aakDplyQOAk_4vsUY1U1fIY/s320/Into+the+Whorl+and+Vice+yarn+scarves+w.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: white;">*****************************************************************************************</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I'm sure we will be in self-isolation for many more months, so I'm looking forward to more exploration and more scarves.</span></p>Ingridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12856580148171686040noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105780883851300453.post-7908053781167018362020-11-13T13:39:00.004-08:002020-11-15T06:31:15.090-08:00Shawls of the Pandemic<p><span style="font-family: georgia;">It's been a long eight months so far. I've taken the opportunity to use up some yarn. I usually think that shawls are the best way to really create empty spaces in the yarn tubs, but it doesn't seem to work out that way. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">While I've woven several shawls this year during lock-down, there aren't as many as I thought I had. Most of these shawls are primarily wool. Some have nylon and others alpaca/silk blend. They are all woven on eight shafts in some sort of twill. The tie-up for all of these is a 2-2-1-1-1-1 twill. </span></p><p>The warp of this shawl is Mt Colors Mountain Goat in Hummingbird and Wilderness, alternated. The warp is a 70/30 alpaca silk from a local alpaca rancher. The design is an extended point twill.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3mojOZJSna0CCgfWQc2CehMaKiUcGtMqkVQAPSrY-pOTK-nKz3yBgE194WfNFp_CTIwHpkvSS4nMEFyn6_-Wvsxj5ftv8o7ErVlATuF5qmSAKIay0VxriTKe_I-sDxRGuQbm_7EKC5RYs/s2048/Mt+Colors+Green-Purples+201+3.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3mojOZJSna0CCgfWQc2CehMaKiUcGtMqkVQAPSrY-pOTK-nKz3yBgE194WfNFp_CTIwHpkvSS4nMEFyn6_-Wvsxj5ftv8o7ErVlATuF5qmSAKIay0VxriTKe_I-sDxRGuQbm_7EKC5RYs/s320/Mt+Colors+Green-Purples+201+3.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mt Colors Greens -Purples<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3NtveboTWVm8E-9gcFS5SgKPP_6EGuDVluTU_70WOQpmi3kqVUnSHAc8Z0CCZGOXHufWY4mJvfdxp7s6nBDJ2a7VbVtl98luuedbzpozHPFwjhe5sT7T3z9ftbTv03mSSGo1voE_76BZb/s2048/Mt+Colors+Green-Purples+201+1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3NtveboTWVm8E-9gcFS5SgKPP_6EGuDVluTU_70WOQpmi3kqVUnSHAc8Z0CCZGOXHufWY4mJvfdxp7s6nBDJ2a7VbVtl98luuedbzpozHPFwjhe5sT7T3z9ftbTv03mSSGo1voE_76BZb/s320/Mt+Colors+Green-Purples+201+1.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mt Colors Greens -Purples - detail</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;">************************************************************************************</span></div><p><br /></p>This shawl was woven using Mountain Goat yarn as well from Mountain Colors. The colorways Yellowstone and Gold Rush were used. The weft was a yarn from Madeline Tosh in a red. It's an extended point twill. <br /><br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUFLxsoHT83u5OvAa1PTs1ILs1fuBenFfSw45lk-VG5JPXDDhHKsLk-ziZwoNjcxvKAcnWLIewZ5jGejg3C64k-b7Lem4kHBbHbWTANqxTFNafbPPtbWc9iKxKV3LjHhuGuj9yneO_l3bC/s2048/Mt+Colors+Gold+195+1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUFLxsoHT83u5OvAa1PTs1ILs1fuBenFfSw45lk-VG5JPXDDhHKsLk-ziZwoNjcxvKAcnWLIewZ5jGejg3C64k-b7Lem4kHBbHbWTANqxTFNafbPPtbWc9iKxKV3LjHhuGuj9yneO_l3bC/s320/Mt+Colors+Gold+195+1.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mt Colors Gold - detail</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8wSJU6y03Y8GJWoVeeuHznEgWwF_QfRe4gZNa_PVs2F7-UbSaYEZhhRfyaLCz2oxRp2wLd9hj8cYDforJJMVyIKidklwvbHczVwjUI81cdG8vRwS8hvu9hq6Bwibt8yP2MUEcrZr2gEVX/s2048/Mt+Colors+Gold+195+2.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8wSJU6y03Y8GJWoVeeuHznEgWwF_QfRe4gZNa_PVs2F7-UbSaYEZhhRfyaLCz2oxRp2wLd9hj8cYDforJJMVyIKidklwvbHczVwjUI81cdG8vRwS8hvu9hq6Bwibt8yP2MUEcrZr2gEVX/s320/Mt+Colors+Gold+195+2.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mt Colors Gold<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;">**************************************************************************************</span></p><div><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div>The following are shawl's I wove before the shut-down. This one is grays and charcoals is made using 70/20 alpaca silk from a local alpaca rancher for both the warp and weft. The structure is an undulating twill.<div><span><br /></span><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-_BBcUZy7LCkRbngdtDXPeJaSkT4DZgazmcpUIeo-oV8gaU7O-mngvJ4oO5kP9R5IpBTzMxpJw5LFDZSxn7dZFL1UR0Z0YxHrO5BxbanuhKepV51BgHXBXPd4xNtfTjDX7SpvhNWMQhc1/s2048/Gray-black+A+Star+Alpaca+192+2.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-_BBcUZy7LCkRbngdtDXPeJaSkT4DZgazmcpUIeo-oV8gaU7O-mngvJ4oO5kP9R5IpBTzMxpJw5LFDZSxn7dZFL1UR0Z0YxHrO5BxbanuhKepV51BgHXBXPd4xNtfTjDX7SpvhNWMQhc1/s320/Gray-black+A+Star+Alpaca+192+2.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gray-Black Alpaca - detail</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrGTwnsvt9DfgRypB7ig3uXimkhXMO1Uhn8XLD7pnoUYmeB0i7ZduQpRSxtmO7vCP2VKEQ8UxM-MJl7a9u-hpArMcSePBFkF4ugL3gySvmieHYjiwwb5TXAmLHlooQpRIOA5GzKrMkh7-v/s2048/Gray-black+A+Star+Alpaca+192+1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrGTwnsvt9DfgRypB7ig3uXimkhXMO1Uhn8XLD7pnoUYmeB0i7ZduQpRSxtmO7vCP2VKEQ8UxM-MJl7a9u-hpArMcSePBFkF4ugL3gySvmieHYjiwwb5TXAmLHlooQpRIOA5GzKrMkh7-v/s320/Gray-black+A+Star+Alpaca+192+1.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gray-Black Alpaca<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;">*************************************************************************************</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: white;">****************************************************************************************</span><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: white;">****************************************************************************************</span><span style="color: white;">***********************************************************************************</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">For last year's County Fair, I wove a shawl inspired by the ground of our county. There was lots of gold taken out of the earth hereabouts. The warp and weft was yarn from Madeline Tosh: Tosh Sock in Ginger (merino wool) for the warp and Madeline Tosh Twist Light in Stephen Loves Tosh for the weft. It was woven in an extended point twill.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBhyphenhyphen8eg1kw5Og1B1JczSEIZkkYeFbFuQ79tcIghV-w05q9Z9aMOxLaOR6q50qcKpHrROdGTyhzBXG1qJiXj0KOw6gzrpW2lrqWo80j_QoWaGtHViu1htQv7tE5dRpVr_AiikdvEv1KjeMW/s2048/Nevada+County+Inspiration+2.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBhyphenhyphen8eg1kw5Og1B1JczSEIZkkYeFbFuQ79tcIghV-w05q9Z9aMOxLaOR6q50qcKpHrROdGTyhzBXG1qJiXj0KOw6gzrpW2lrqWo80j_QoWaGtHViu1htQv7tE5dRpVr_AiikdvEv1KjeMW/s320/Nevada+County+Inspiration+2.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nevada County Inspiration<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVMAb0XNsQpUkT98yU9Q-uxB_8D8rL7BcTOm__TgISQ1bPYTKWezwx7NYE2JwxWXPClIpzqLyAlChvil3kH6Mjdx3Vwc6UFA1oqmCixSGlRTOCjBE6y5WLIM_OJxBiAp-oCZsHPcpxPHuG/s2048/Nevada+County+Inspiration+3.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVMAb0XNsQpUkT98yU9Q-uxB_8D8rL7BcTOm__TgISQ1bPYTKWezwx7NYE2JwxWXPClIpzqLyAlChvil3kH6Mjdx3Vwc6UFA1oqmCixSGlRTOCjBE6y5WLIM_OJxBiAp-oCZsHPcpxPHuG/s320/Nevada+County+Inspiration+3.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nevada County Inspiration - detail</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;">****************************************************************************************</span><p></p><p><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;">*************************************************************************************</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><span style="color: white;">*************************************************************************************</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">This colorful shawl was woven using Malabrigo Arroyo yarn (Camaleon 684) for the warp and Madeline Tosh DK (Mandala) for the weft. Malabrigo is interesting yarn. They have beautiful colors but each skein can look very different - all of the same colors but in different proportions. This shawl was woven as an undulating twill. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmdrzmFi_rOBH2nlDhRgawIhULdOP1rs73OLjvYYgtwQkadm1TMH7ZRSheE4s6qCRabbhfrh97vZPODARQclG54J2d2Gs34KgOvURl6ms7WVgxiwQ0YJiAVDBaTJL1Z3gFxA18X8Fiwimi/s2048/Green+Cameleon+Malabrigo+168+1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmdrzmFi_rOBH2nlDhRgawIhULdOP1rs73OLjvYYgtwQkadm1TMH7ZRSheE4s6qCRabbhfrh97vZPODARQclG54J2d2Gs34KgOvURl6ms7WVgxiwQ0YJiAVDBaTJL1Z3gFxA18X8Fiwimi/s320/Green+Cameleon+Malabrigo+168+1.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Green Chameleon Malabrigo - detail</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc9m-KwOxtIAqgh3G1lo7pfg5a5VwAjt6nW4hrSEcx8FIcvQUOcy5qjiWT_p5IYpirkuw0VqIQq2afKVcUNFLAxkSYIrSQVR5piQq1ru9sQCXXOzAm8XNZ3PkYqENArX0PM3UZYOvk8MUc/s2048/Green+Cameleon+Malabrigo+168+2.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc9m-KwOxtIAqgh3G1lo7pfg5a5VwAjt6nW4hrSEcx8FIcvQUOcy5qjiWT_p5IYpirkuw0VqIQq2afKVcUNFLAxkSYIrSQVR5piQq1ru9sQCXXOzAm8XNZ3PkYqENArX0PM3UZYOvk8MUc/s320/Green+Cameleon+Malabrigo+168+2.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Green Chameleon Malabrigo </td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />****************************************************************************************<br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />****************************************************************************************</span></p><div><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;">****************************************************************************************</span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: white;">******************************************************************************</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">This very autumn colored shawl was woven using Berroco Ultra Alpaca in various browns and rusts for the warp and Ultra Alpaca Light for the weft. For this shawl, I chose a fancy point twill on eight shafts.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiupda9Z_JllCScTMjXHiUQd73VxEYQwYysUozGfyn_DO74hA6rI7ntSndjaIBVNCRpNXJHoXNLEw2rjHQlL-xqHEknyXIn7JW1w0d517wjtnOpeSZwFW5tvvEfj71qSv6peT7I83UzpUSV/s2048/Alpaca+Autumn+163+2.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiupda9Z_JllCScTMjXHiUQd73VxEYQwYysUozGfyn_DO74hA6rI7ntSndjaIBVNCRpNXJHoXNLEw2rjHQlL-xqHEknyXIn7JW1w0d517wjtnOpeSZwFW5tvvEfj71qSv6peT7I83UzpUSV/s320/Alpaca+Autumn+163+2.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alpaca Autumn - detail</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9kL-iSXuE-U5HbmtduWW_BLDoxmv1XkL0wk5x-FEGqjFrbgJ9CwNTI5Naf-qDwcZLhhHcrZz7Xa-gGZw8IbKBXXffOjMHWJP1TnKfog54ubgmjYqJarAEUheQw9qBUfB7B4c2yJeUh_F3/s2048/Alpaca+Autumn+163+1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9kL-iSXuE-U5HbmtduWW_BLDoxmv1XkL0wk5x-FEGqjFrbgJ9CwNTI5Naf-qDwcZLhhHcrZz7Xa-gGZw8IbKBXXffOjMHWJP1TnKfog54ubgmjYqJarAEUheQw9qBUfB7B4c2yJeUh_F3/s320/Alpaca+Autumn+163+1.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alpaca Autumn<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;">*************************************************************************************</span></p><p><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;">*************************************************************************************</span></p><div><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />*************************************************************************************</span></div><div><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: white;">****************************************************************************************</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">This last shawl is woven from Mountain Colors yarn - River Twist (Spring Creek) for the warp and Mountain Goat (Harmony Plum) for the weft. The 8-shaft twill was a very extended point twill. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsFW2B0pZYQIumqpz6fWZH-31WhuLr2_zNafLmj3cV1CBc9bWbsok8Poqhv1aCPgTYu6sfCuYVOREEidlsDFtDTT0DIrpP27HPrQqeyiP70hROE0r4aOwVnQggV3HR5A2HstKbTsmo5VVs/s2048/Mt+Colors+Purples+148+2.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsFW2B0pZYQIumqpz6fWZH-31WhuLr2_zNafLmj3cV1CBc9bWbsok8Poqhv1aCPgTYu6sfCuYVOREEidlsDFtDTT0DIrpP27HPrQqeyiP70hROE0r4aOwVnQggV3HR5A2HstKbTsmo5VVs/s320/Mt+Colors+Purples+148+2.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mt Colors Purple<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiegKRfNIlMUad7JWGXZrfywn2kUeXrYOZXkfw_RyAzjM7fWSBScpjoDJv2rtP-lIt6utvq9cnhnX72tqacXpa2f7UIPd3XOMD4DL0u4jaQd13EAwt-AsQ4x2PtftmtTieLES9qfH7421Je/s2048/Mt+Colors+Purples+148+1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiegKRfNIlMUad7JWGXZrfywn2kUeXrYOZXkfw_RyAzjM7fWSBScpjoDJv2rtP-lIt6utvq9cnhnX72tqacXpa2f7UIPd3XOMD4DL0u4jaQd13EAwt-AsQ4x2PtftmtTieLES9qfH7421Je/s320/Mt+Colors+Purples+148+1.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mt Colors Purple - detail<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There are bound to be many more months of self-isolation this winter, and there is a lot more yarn. I will most likely be weaving more shawls. </p></div>Ingridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12856580148171686040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105780883851300453.post-81485066629105387552020-11-12T16:26:00.005-08:002020-11-12T16:29:26.856-08:00Pandemic Towels<p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Having been in lockdown for eight months, I thought I would review what I've been weaving during the time of COVID-19. I have a few towels that were woven before March 2020, but most of these were made since then.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">All of the towels were woven using 10/2 mercerized cotton in both the warp and weft, sett at 30 epi. Each set of towels were woven as some sort of point twill - most of them were different - on eight shafts. The tie-up for all was a 2-2-1-1-1-1 twill. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I am still using pictures as color inspiration and creating random stripes as the color design. An online random stripe generator is very useful when designing the stripes, although I do tweak the color order and stripe size a bit. I work toward proportion of values across each warp that emphasize the medium value colors and use less of the high intensity and dark value colors.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">The latest towels off the loom, I called Lupine towels - inspired by a picture of a mountainscape with flowers. </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJFYzMNpPgKAqPu27N7d0ix_QzLp5J-FT4sKVm-Q_8qhwAwRErqATMEzQvseu-0F02zoMUL39Ht5W89VxnIvWJxCgwh705j5AMUwRyObQeMywfW02319vJXyFR_10VN6fStRwNDOeXIln_/s2048/Lupine+yarns.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJFYzMNpPgKAqPu27N7d0ix_QzLp5J-FT4sKVm-Q_8qhwAwRErqATMEzQvseu-0F02zoMUL39Ht5W89VxnIvWJxCgwh705j5AMUwRyObQeMywfW02319vJXyFR_10VN6fStRwNDOeXIln_/s320/Lupine+yarns.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Colors for Lupine towels<br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTb1QU_59Ioq6Th4b9B15lnJtcIHfIP8Hymok_fS1p-D32LBFbsLDibXeg1v7ShXhxh1Za0XNfsbo1HE11kKPZWPrl7w-wJRPjQOuZQ8mMaimDuqA8DAhJpWKj5o_Kacx6Ltt59M7o0Syt/s2048/Lupine+1.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1371" data-original-width="2048" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTb1QU_59Ioq6Th4b9B15lnJtcIHfIP8Hymok_fS1p-D32LBFbsLDibXeg1v7ShXhxh1Za0XNfsbo1HE11kKPZWPrl7w-wJRPjQOuZQ8mMaimDuqA8DAhJpWKj5o_Kacx6Ltt59M7o0Syt/w320-h214/Lupine+1.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lupine Towels edge</td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb-XRa8aDHyoqi5KJTWpJ_mHFCdNY81uWj1bnpRQ1ZBNIm38JWXN-eRBjNcAGdOsqU4SonA8Z3MijAnLSK1TGkquVf-sJhfmn8X5crUIO8jVD4n8xu3fianNvK1ji8endUjxiCel85NkCZ/s2048/Lupine+3.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1838" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb-XRa8aDHyoqi5KJTWpJ_mHFCdNY81uWj1bnpRQ1ZBNIm38JWXN-eRBjNcAGdOsqU4SonA8Z3MijAnLSK1TGkquVf-sJhfmn8X5crUIO8jVD4n8xu3fianNvK1ji8endUjxiCel85NkCZ/s320/Lupine+3.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lupine Towels<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: white;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />*****************************************************************************************</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: white;">*****************************************************************************************</span></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Golden Gate towels were inspired by a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge over the Bay. </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS0-h5CVeUNmhrf78A_lxD-3DOnJupzxMBTRLadlaNKLFOrY8ByBOPuScGHwbcAbscltkCh10GtAphDbuXpX79CBxTYF17XsmS7aECFhGRLSv6bZIbz6qPsV_e40ODrUdi_OKq0WUn0kor/s2048/Golden+Gate+Towel+Yarns.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1612" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS0-h5CVeUNmhrf78A_lxD-3DOnJupzxMBTRLadlaNKLFOrY8ByBOPuScGHwbcAbscltkCh10GtAphDbuXpX79CBxTYF17XsmS7aECFhGRLSv6bZIbz6qPsV_e40ODrUdi_OKq0WUn0kor/s320/Golden+Gate+Towel+Yarns.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Golden Gate Towel Inspiration and Yarn<br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWuDC6vDQBgm14p5XQ6p8Fctu5SIXRKHyH0gW8KG_0_FnSjYqV7TCwdB0U1TFi8UFwR87DQLYqWZYQpvFIVJWtlnRUcfJ25DYtRaOU00VYnrrb3zpIXrY_eOMPz6tl1q-ZTy4FE_onGcWr/s2048/Golden+Gate+2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1747" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWuDC6vDQBgm14p5XQ6p8Fctu5SIXRKHyH0gW8KG_0_FnSjYqV7TCwdB0U1TFi8UFwR87DQLYqWZYQpvFIVJWtlnRUcfJ25DYtRaOU00VYnrrb3zpIXrY_eOMPz6tl1q-ZTy4FE_onGcWr/s320/Golden+Gate+2.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Golden Gate Towels<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjgBLyJsCfh1uGZ4KSkaFXACwdc4kI_wBwPOB6QzkCePcwyUx0blXN8v8pYpjwUFAembvjyZOdo4hvHk0bqmqLGBkXc4NJogCE9aRxuXY1PP6_Ik9br-lm4eCWA1wsZt1F1MhcDJaTzww-/s2048/Golden+Gate+towels+edge.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1353" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjgBLyJsCfh1uGZ4KSkaFXACwdc4kI_wBwPOB6QzkCePcwyUx0blXN8v8pYpjwUFAembvjyZOdo4hvHk0bqmqLGBkXc4NJogCE9aRxuXY1PP6_Ik9br-lm4eCWA1wsZt1F1MhcDJaTzww-/s320/Golden+Gate+towels+edge.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Golden Gate Towels - edge<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: white;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />*****************************************************************************************</span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><p><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;">****************************************************************************************</span></p><div><p><br /></p></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Beach Towels resulted from work I did to put together a presentation to my local fiber guild. I talked a bit about my process for designing these striped colored towels. To give an illustration, I chose this</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> picture of Honolulu. I liked the colors so much that I wove towels using the color choices.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh10WIExzhvTi5WYGDuQEBbNI2b0XA5x1A81kLPgcX58Wj8u86KUqnpEYwGJSJRS97r1WVwoYB-w2Kl0brk_oPAOPtdY2y9bdAYblhii6qXeqCdwDRoLP3MfqXnEZzeal6R2DTnfJj4VDRd/s2048/Beach+Towel+Yarns.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh10WIExzhvTi5WYGDuQEBbNI2b0XA5x1A81kLPgcX58Wj8u86KUqnpEYwGJSJRS97r1WVwoYB-w2Kl0brk_oPAOPtdY2y9bdAYblhii6qXeqCdwDRoLP3MfqXnEZzeal6R2DTnfJj4VDRd/s320/Beach+Towel+Yarns.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beach Towel Inspiration and Yarns<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrynqXPhDaavGPFCgksimyio5z2VXz8LQUgvE1bsxGhZxUyBms15gFk8t4bAta4fo4wdj5Ey98m6feX49rqE75GnO0FTZ5tlIySleoowTRwaOlasCtC6tBciaZZ5y9_rGnngTVpRLyDjDF/s2048/Beach+1.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1830" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrynqXPhDaavGPFCgksimyio5z2VXz8LQUgvE1bsxGhZxUyBms15gFk8t4bAta4fo4wdj5Ey98m6feX49rqE75GnO0FTZ5tlIySleoowTRwaOlasCtC6tBciaZZ5y9_rGnngTVpRLyDjDF/s320/Beach+1.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beach Towels<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div></div><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguCs37jX6uwHbqSvK1Yd7iMoUmfT8uImS-4yatczZr_BVfWlV3Bc9ci8XEgvokHia6SSCZqdd3ZdlNrmyRECQXXGRPMMYMOtE587HXx1Uc7JKd0F08zXVUdOVOAMpEuLtW6Enmzb9PA9iS/s2048/Beach+3.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguCs37jX6uwHbqSvK1Yd7iMoUmfT8uImS-4yatczZr_BVfWlV3Bc9ci8XEgvokHia6SSCZqdd3ZdlNrmyRECQXXGRPMMYMOtE587HXx1Uc7JKd0F08zXVUdOVOAMpEuLtW6Enmzb9PA9iS/s320/Beach+3.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beach Towels - Edge<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: white;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />*****************************************************************************************</span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: white;">*****************************************************************************************</span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Mountain Meadow Towels were an attempt to use more green - not my favorite color. It wasn't a lot of green , but more than I normally use.</span></div><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaQyj48pYQ4mMTKBm7tr-lW4j7w-f54LnN9UTiOu2zAVG8gwdZrcQIpwlNriVSx-yw0uIPiw-llmyq-8Bmcrgn9EUtPGRShoWAT-Q66_cTwrYpn4IH7U-8IHNYxRiR1xctUtGTaP7MRSxe/s2048/Montain+Meadow+Yarns.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaQyj48pYQ4mMTKBm7tr-lW4j7w-f54LnN9UTiOu2zAVG8gwdZrcQIpwlNriVSx-yw0uIPiw-llmyq-8Bmcrgn9EUtPGRShoWAT-Q66_cTwrYpn4IH7U-8IHNYxRiR1xctUtGTaP7MRSxe/s320/Montain+Meadow+Yarns.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mountain Meadow Color Inspiration and Yarn<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit1CT1xSYyeBwBW39fUkSXp94A1ypJLk0LJga2-in-EMyuxrmrlRKP9OyDOrNRPjzH3Rf5YdXPvN0M3ykc3Sr0dzB1ssD_prEHzDrMPZVagqyPYbt1bOYh2TseTMy7641_h1FMbH32uHa2/s2048/Mountain+Meadow+3.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1566" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit1CT1xSYyeBwBW39fUkSXp94A1ypJLk0LJga2-in-EMyuxrmrlRKP9OyDOrNRPjzH3Rf5YdXPvN0M3ykc3Sr0dzB1ssD_prEHzDrMPZVagqyPYbt1bOYh2TseTMy7641_h1FMbH32uHa2/s320/Mountain+Meadow+3.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mountain Meadow Towels<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnk4x03zK2If9qLlDSM-gl2xPEQnDQc0oZoztmZNr20rQ1RYGJ3AHImH_ih0kXAkz13MLPysNbFF5spftrg52CNYWc7gNA4D-Aqw4WWgol6eroryZoFUTeHlRCFCCKxvi5qBjhDfhSefdh/s2048/Mountain+Meadow+4.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1232" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnk4x03zK2If9qLlDSM-gl2xPEQnDQc0oZoztmZNr20rQ1RYGJ3AHImH_ih0kXAkz13MLPysNbFF5spftrg52CNYWc7gNA4D-Aqw4WWgol6eroryZoFUTeHlRCFCCKxvi5qBjhDfhSefdh/s320/Mountain+Meadow+4.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mountain Meadow Towels - Edge<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: white;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />*****************************************************************************************</span></span></p><div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: white;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />*****************************************************************************************</span></span></p></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I have a few random towels left over from various warps. The Candy Box towel was design with the same striping as the others above. The inspiration was a box rather than a picture. The Turned Taquete was the result of a group study of the weave structure. </span></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbx83Djrdgt2p3WdLZtWlbKGW_BpLtlkrpKEfFpA2pknPdC0S4DgohI9tqrPaa0dWnfbQ3-Mj2tjZFTqRVeH5hwiK9mztNl3F81jecS-UybZof4pxADNcvKAm75aiDDkIY0ns8L-aeCISH/s2048/Candy+Box+Towels+Color+Inspiration.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2019" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbx83Djrdgt2p3WdLZtWlbKGW_BpLtlkrpKEfFpA2pknPdC0S4DgohI9tqrPaa0dWnfbQ3-Mj2tjZFTqRVeH5hwiK9mztNl3F81jecS-UybZof4pxADNcvKAm75aiDDkIY0ns8L-aeCISH/s320/Candy+Box+Towels+Color+Inspiration.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Candy Box Towel Inspiration<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ8wXiU0ipNp2dWkIr0-t5bXx8XA2gK47uU1HUtJ124Nu7T5qRzO-szY1r4i2vwIe87NnvDaMMov8cq_jiTDpqfQNfETCW-kCZ1s6oP0Cq2_fzHqjw4509iIP9fO5BaykcuCSNHPvkzjwY/s2048/Candy+Box+1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1470" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ8wXiU0ipNp2dWkIr0-t5bXx8XA2gK47uU1HUtJ124Nu7T5qRzO-szY1r4i2vwIe87NnvDaMMov8cq_jiTDpqfQNfETCW-kCZ1s6oP0Cq2_fzHqjw4509iIP9fO5BaykcuCSNHPvkzjwY/s320/Candy+Box+1.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Candy Box Towel<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9s6BhfSl14-7tGk4J4IlV5DCCSRQ9PPHSFcbt-GJ7gE3kDJsUVnXHIhEGmdmzu2o5IssCXObTsrxcESIan8AJSS-BpPdIYpke83siRtcOQIP2f7KY8tqJ6jsk6dFVeSVP_LWu89DyVeGy/s2048/Turned+Taquete.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9s6BhfSl14-7tGk4J4IlV5DCCSRQ9PPHSFcbt-GJ7gE3kDJsUVnXHIhEGmdmzu2o5IssCXObTsrxcESIan8AJSS-BpPdIYpke83siRtcOQIP2f7KY8tqJ6jsk6dFVeSVP_LWu89DyVeGy/s320/Turned+Taquete.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Turned Taquete<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>I have always loved natural bleached cotton yarn as a basis for towels. The Russian Cloth Towels are woven on 4-shafts using a fancy 2/2 twill pattern.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5nKU5r2kZ9zLsyPZvIDzvvJIyq_QSxZJBU6I0FwDIJKicIwu_UpGuk1Pcnv0vJ0IaNXhtwHJmJ2ggEcVITvFZ33arsh6aI7V5TSIhjpI8XEsHPpnEcMQOz3m-96yIP2zbrA8MJw1aZPCH/s2048/Russian+Cloth+2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5nKU5r2kZ9zLsyPZvIDzvvJIyq_QSxZJBU6I0FwDIJKicIwu_UpGuk1Pcnv0vJ0IaNXhtwHJmJ2ggEcVITvFZ33arsh6aI7V5TSIhjpI8XEsHPpnEcMQOz3m-96yIP2zbrA8MJw1aZPCH/s320/Russian+Cloth+2.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Russian Cloth<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Although the pandemic has been catastrophic for so many people, it has given me a chance to weave more than usual.</p>Ingridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12856580148171686040noreply@blogger.com0California, USA36.778261 -119.41793248.4680271638211551 -154.57418239999998 65.088494836178853 -84.2616824tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105780883851300453.post-5938660764496836232020-09-10T19:24:00.000-07:002020-09-10T19:24:44.083-07:00Scarves with Doubleweave Hems<p> <span style="font-family: georgia;">The pandemic is still happening and I am still weaving scarves. I had a friend ask if I ever wove scarves without fringe. I hadn't but I knew there were ways of approaching that. I wasn't interested in doing a turned hem because of the potential bulk. I have weaver friends who wove scarves that had what is called a doubleweave or tubular hem. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">The technique involves weaving two layers of textile at either end of the scarf, i.e., doubleweave. Once finished, these two layers are folded inward and the folded textile is sewn together. This gives a nice hem that hopefully isn't a lot bulkier than the scarf itself. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Since I had been having success with tencel scarves, I decided to use </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">10/2 tencel</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Just Our Yarn yarn for this type of scarf. The plan for the first scarf was to have the body woven as a 2/2 twill with a plain weave hem. That way, I could weave this on my Baby Wolf. I threaded the warp as a straight draw on 8 shafts. The tie-up was a 2/2 twill (treadles 1-4) and the configuration needed to weave doubeweave on the hems was on treadles 5-8. </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="543" data-original-width="348" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis7kqfI4EyZWAEXRVo-1CRxj98ui4b9ZSrQacf9dVOBPpcocSIe5QjELEROz29w-bAIPZmsf7ec9EQnTpD5PfLGuo4Dgh9RSRaj9sJ265VEqWVxACTwePPtFPgVqycV4GL58tGHzG9lbO2/s320/JOY+Tubular+Hem+Scarf+7-2020+Drawdown.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;">Pink Scarf Drawdown</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">The warp was sett at 36 epi, the same sett that had been used for previous scarves I wove with this type of yarn.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The warp yarn was a light peach/pink and the warp a medium dark red-fuschia. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">The weaving was straightforward. I even hem-stitched each layer of the hem, so that it would be easier to manage after it was off the loom. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi18EdfxlKIoJFchfbSzki_8GZTiCojZUm5K_NyLaEJQYw6LrysEWOjvTAIn0Hu9xqXTpoWxnp19wPXttHMgA3xOlZ0aXM33dl2sfy1eVfRNR7V0are__Q_xmgiBufmATGsoAvu-WYoHfF9/s2048/JOY+Pink+Scarf+hem+detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1186" data-original-width="2048" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi18EdfxlKIoJFchfbSzki_8GZTiCojZUm5K_NyLaEJQYw6LrysEWOjvTAIn0Hu9xqXTpoWxnp19wPXttHMgA3xOlZ0aXM33dl2sfy1eVfRNR7V0are__Q_xmgiBufmATGsoAvu-WYoHfF9/w320-h185/JOY+Pink+Scarf+hem+detail.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;">Finished Scarf Hem</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">The resulting scarf worked. I did get a slight bit of draw-in - more so at the end than the beginning of the warp. The two layers of hem turned in ok and they were sewn together to look seamless.</span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ZPmpnj375qNmrgrRHKvYgICTNCAcLKeb1dNG4s-aQV80ScwvANbOAlBAiPCXLL2pwhLGF7NTij0wvPdOZcNY7D3ew13f8zaLR218ptQJ9vSlzNiO-eluwBS4rPITjjdc9DHXGUD02bKi/s2048/JOY+Scarf+Pink+7-2020.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1502" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ZPmpnj375qNmrgrRHKvYgICTNCAcLKeb1dNG4s-aQV80ScwvANbOAlBAiPCXLL2pwhLGF7NTij0wvPdOZcNY7D3ew13f8zaLR218ptQJ9vSlzNiO-eluwBS4rPITjjdc9DHXGUD02bKi/s320/JOY+Scarf+Pink+7-2020.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pink Scarf with Doubleweave Hem<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Nice scarf, nice colors. However, in looking at how this scarf turned out, I decided that I wasn't happy with the plain weave hem versus the twill scarf. I also wasn't excited about how the short color intervals in the 2/2 twill design. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Now that I felt comfortable with the </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">technique, I thought about how I could select a different draft to improve on those areas that I thought could be improved. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Since I wanted to have a more interesting scarf, I chose to use a 2-2-1-1-1-1 tie-up (treadles 1-8) with the straight draw threading. The hem was to be a twill rather than plain weave. This called for eight treadles instead of the four needed for the plain weave hem above. These are treadles 9-16. This could be woven on a standard 8-shaft loom if you changed the treadles before and after the hem. However, I have a dobby loom, so it was much easier to weave this scarf on that. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Here is the drawdown with focus on the tie-up for the hem and scarf. </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="646" data-original-width="541" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA_59dFYaxoOUSC07OtPqwzPOltdMBwdEgdMBpBzPlzEMZ_tAMTS_qJiGyF-dTtIG-SOarOwIKVm6P0DY95DpEedJ9NnPzJ70ZhbGuuj44GOP1w8ZETGaz2LKRZKPd7MSoodf3xIkHrA4W/s320/JOY+Tubular+Hem+Scarf+8-2020+Blue-Fuschia+final.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;">Blue-Fuschia Scarf Drawdown - partial</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The yarns I used for this scarf were 10/2 tencel from Just Our Yarn. The warp was a mixture of ends of skeins that ranged from blues and fuchsias to oranges and greens. I alternated two of the color ways together. I decided that since there were common colors on the different skeins, this should work. The weft was a blue-fuschia variegated 10/2 tencel.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi67xhvaPTFs2W_EFrmKtf-VN3rNWCWDVbP_Vxy09aiREcInjFFTTkzfX13HqBabDe4pRtOQ2_NNf72vD9Z7EiClR0wvVkaJwsXF__hya8GxVZyK4YOnx-J3oGd9eo-H7Ff6D0OCK4WmsEn/s2048/Blues+JOY+Scarf+-+warp+colors.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1474" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi67xhvaPTFs2W_EFrmKtf-VN3rNWCWDVbP_Vxy09aiREcInjFFTTkzfX13HqBabDe4pRtOQ2_NNf72vD9Z7EiClR0wvVkaJwsXF__hya8GxVZyK4YOnx-J3oGd9eo-H7Ff6D0OCK4WmsEn/s320/Blues+JOY+Scarf+-+warp+colors.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;">Blue-Fuschia Scarf Warp Colors</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">For this scarf, I used an advancing, irregular point treadling. </div><p></p><p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWGDti8Du-VdxvDrXUktSPeGHhnS3LCPZ3OQshHvoWNdrO5b1tEjLRfItltdSm3lc7mUoclhXd_keenTIsGNlK5U2cxOUOEj8lhJOZg_dI9kak_1kODggToUFVbnT5M5oI2UC78QpeU-rd/s649/JOY+Tubular+Hem+Scarf+8-2020+Blue-Fuschia+full+drawdown+final.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="649" data-original-width="291" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWGDti8Du-VdxvDrXUktSPeGHhnS3LCPZ3OQshHvoWNdrO5b1tEjLRfItltdSm3lc7mUoclhXd_keenTIsGNlK5U2cxOUOEj8lhJOZg_dI9kak_1kODggToUFVbnT5M5oI2UC78QpeU-rd/s320/JOY+Tubular+Hem+Scarf+8-2020+Blue-Fuschia+full+drawdown+final.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;">Blue-Fuschia Scarf Draw Down - Full<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Weaving the hem took a little bit more care for this scarf. It was easier to pack down the twill weft picks than it had been with a plain weave hem, so I had to be careful not to beat too hard. Again, each layer was hemstitched while on the loom. The two layers were turned in and the folded edges stitched together. </span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTkAer9SwjUQZgP-giPqBjT3VMmqbjrP6JixXNg5w19q79ulQVeQofiPdNPILNgbdKvSCmRYDplXlueNE5lnuHctVO1cuBuDblJKCG9chyphenhyphenmDMuNzymXcJSV18lCI57azt9hj4HICjHJ2VE/s1585/Blues+JOY+Scarf+-+Hemline+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1005" data-original-width="1585" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTkAer9SwjUQZgP-giPqBjT3VMmqbjrP6JixXNg5w19q79ulQVeQofiPdNPILNgbdKvSCmRYDplXlueNE5lnuHctVO1cuBuDblJKCG9chyphenhyphenmDMuNzymXcJSV18lCI57azt9hj4HICjHJ2VE/s320/Blues+JOY+Scarf+-+Hemline+2.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;">Blue-Fuschia Scarf Hem Detail</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The finished scarf looked good and the hem more closely matched the rest of the scarf.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmkp8Qbm_pygyGBqEWM5TnUuinm6WZvxklGEYhXG8xgZmIPOqO1T0NviS9zRN6_Np89ccDSUn0VIMpNheueKmKSumNfV51uYNI3QSnW-UgK8BALQ6DgLAPE0pL-uKJZVTUAKqCvULPaZIy/s2529/Blues+JOY+Scarf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1243" data-original-width="2529" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmkp8Qbm_pygyGBqEWM5TnUuinm6WZvxklGEYhXG8xgZmIPOqO1T0NviS9zRN6_Np89ccDSUn0VIMpNheueKmKSumNfV51uYNI3QSnW-UgK8BALQ6DgLAPE0pL-uKJZVTUAKqCvULPaZIy/s320/Blues+JOY+Scarf.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I think this was fairly successful. I will definitely try this type of hem again.</span></p>Ingridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12856580148171686040noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105780883851300453.post-59601748316888826352020-05-19T19:12:00.001-07:002020-05-19T19:12:23.962-07:00Scarves, Scarves, Scarves<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I realize it has been a while since I've posted here. I have been doing repeats of many of the things I have woven before - towels by the dozens; shawls and some baby blankets. I wasn't sure that I had anything new to offer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">During the current shelter-in-place, I have been weaving a lot: a dozen towels, two shawls and some scarves. The scarves were a bit of a departure for me. Typically, I have used a merino or merino/nylon blend for scarves. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In thinking about all of the yarn I have, I thought about a promise I made to myself several years ago. After a fabulous meeting with a dozen other weavers, many of us came away with the mantra to use our good yarn. I even went so far as to decide that when my old weaver yarn sale happened, people should be disappointed about the quality of the yarn available. I decided that there was no time like the present and I should seek out the silk yarn I've acquired. Fortunately for me, I took a bit of a detour and came across some 10/2 tencel yarn I had bought from Just Our Yarns. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I hadn't used tencel yarn up to this point, although I know lots of weavers who love it. It just hadn't happened. Just Our Yarns in no longer in business but the owners dyed their yarns with fabulous and interesting color combinations. I decided I had had this yarn long enough and I should use it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the end, I wove three scarves using the 10/2 tencel: three different warp yarns and two different weft yarns. The designs were all 8-shaft point twills, sett at 36 epi using a 2-2-1-1-1-1 tie up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For the first scarf, I used an extended twill and an advancing treadling. The warp was mostly red/fuchsia and the weft was blues. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's the first scarf. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A more detailed view.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The second scarf was woven with a light green warp and an orange/green weft. The treading was an 8-shaft extended point twill. Th</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">e treadling was the same as in the first scarf. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's the second scarf.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The last scarf was woven with a green and fuchsia warp and the same green/orange weft as in the previous scarf. The treading was the same as the scarf above, but the treadling was a regular point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here is the last scarf. (The fringe hadn't been twisted yet in this picture.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All of the scarves were woven to 82 inches. Off the loom they measured around 76 inches and after washing were between 71 and 72 inches long. The scarves were washed on a gentle cycle and laid flat to dry. The scarves were a bit still just off the loom but softened up nicely with washing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was a great experience and I love the results. I guess now I need to seek out more nice yarns. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></div>
Ingridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12856580148171686040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105780883851300453.post-7649236463609310792019-04-22T16:17:00.000-07:002020-05-19T19:15:59.179-07:00Towels are Still Being Woven<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I realized that it has been quite a while since I posted on this blog. I have been weaving, but since what I'm weaving is similar, I haven't thought there was much to say. But I am still weaving towels. A friend ask me if I wasn't tired of towels yet, and I guess I'm not.<br />
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Since the last published towels, I have woven several sets of towels, still exploring color as I go along. I took a short break from color to weave some 4-shaft twill towels using 12/2 unmercerized cotton in a natural color. The pattern is a fancy twill and the resulting towels are soft and subtle. I also wove a few of these with 10/2 cotton.<br />
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All of the other towels have been various combinations of colors. They are all woven using 10/2 mercerized cotton in warp and weft, sett at 30 epi. They are threaded to a variety of 8-shaft point twills and the tie-up is a 2-2-1-1-1-1 twill.<br />
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It is fun to combine different colors for these towels. I typically use a picture as inspiration, but not always.<br />
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The next set of towels on the loom are in shades of blue.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Some time ago, I was tempted by dyed yarn from Vice Yarns. They were selling some interesting color combinations in long color runs. It is an 80/20 merino nylon blend. Not knowing how I would use it, I bought yarn in two different colorways – Into the Whorl and Middle Earth. A while went by and I pulled out Into the Whorl. Other friends who had bought this yarn had mostly used it as weft yarn. One friend did use it as warp, which appealed to me, since the striping would be in the long or vertical direction. I decided to use the yarn to weave a scarf. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The next problem was what weft to use. The colors were of a similar value but the hues were distinct and bold. I found several yarns of a similar grist where the colors looked like they might work out. I left them sitting to the side in the studio for a while (a long while actually) and I would look at them trying to see which one I liked. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In the meanwhile, I decided to use a fancy twill. I picked an undulating twill from Sharon Alderman’s book “Mastering Weave Structures”, page 59. This is an 8-shaft twill. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I wasn’t really excited about any of the weft yarns, so I dug some more through the stash and found a blue Madeline Tosh sock yarn in 100% merino. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Vice yarn was sett at 24 epi and there was enough for a 7 1/2 inch warp, in the reed. The threading was a bit tricky since this yarn, I believe, was dyed in a knitted blank and then unknitted. It was curly and springy and was a bit like threading cooked Ramen noodles. Because I was using every inch of the yarn, I realized when I was preparing to weave that I didn’t have any yarn available for a floating selvedge. I unsleyed the outer two threads and used those as floating selvedge threads, even though they were wound with the rest of the warp. I know that others do this routinely, but I hadn’t done so in the past. This worked out all right, although I did have to weight these threads separately.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The resulting scarf turned out pretty well. I washed it in my front loader machine on gentle and lay it out flat to dry. The fringe was protected with socks during the washing. I trimmed and twisted the fringe with an electric hair twister. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Because of how curly this yarn was during threading, I thought I would have to find some other project to use the second ball. But the actual weaving and finishing went so well and I liked the result, I decided to weave the second ball into a scarf as well. I spent a little less time picking the weft yarn, starting out with two similar yarns - one in brown and the other in blue. The brown would have been the safe choice, also giving a more subdued scarf. I picked the blue in the end because I only had one skein and I had two of the brown, giving me more options for later projects. (Sometimes decisions are that simple.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Everything was the same as before and I used the same structure. I did have a big hiccup with this warp. While I was weaving, one of the treads came unraveled. I decided to use some Fray-Check on it just to hold it together while I was weaving. Six or seven inches later, I discovered the other end that had unraveled and the fact that this thread had become loose and hadn’t been weaving in for that much distance. I pinned it up and went on weaving making sure to incorporate this thread. When I finished waving and took the scarf off the loom, I wasn’t sure what to do. There was no extra yarn of any color, let alone the specific color of this area to do repairs. Also the Fray-Checked area was too stiff and would also have to be replaced. I finally decided to “bite the bullet” and found a similar colored yarn of similar grist and yarn content and replaced the thread along the entire length of the scarf. This was tedious but was the best solution to the problem. </span></div>
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Ingridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12856580148171686040noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105780883851300453.post-1194287986654331652017-11-29T10:37:00.001-08:002017-11-29T10:37:13.710-08:00The Right Fiber for the Job<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I belong to a group who make shawls and lap robes for people who might need one. We recently sent one to an acquaintance of mine who lives across the country. She loved the gift but unfortunately it was made with wool and she is allergic to wool. I was so sad that the gift had brought irritation - literally. Since we didn't have another shawl in our collection that was appropriate, I thought that I would just weave one. Easy - right??</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I thought I should have lots of yarn that would work. After looking through bin after bin, I did have yarns that would be suitable, but there wasn't enough. Or I had yarns that would be perfect, except for that 20% wool content. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Finally, I found two skeins of Misti Alpaca cotton/silk mix - "Pima Silk Hand Paint". It was perfect, except I didn't have enough. Fortunately, 3/2 perle cotton was just about the same grist as this yarn. I had some in the color "duck" from UKI that would look great. Now, what to use for the weft. I didn't want to use something too similar to this warp because I wanted a cozier final textile than would result from using say, the same 3/2 cotton as weft. I settled on an acrylic yarn that was probably twice the grist of the warp. I was a little concerned about this but thought that because it was a spongier yarn, it would fill in the spaces fine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For the warp, I alternated the cotton/silk yarn with the 3/2 cotton. It was sett at 15 epi. The warp was threaded to an 8-shaft point and the tie-up was a 2-2-1-1-1-1 twill. I had just enough of the cotton/silk yarn to wind on 28 inches of the warp, in the reed. The acrylic weft was woven at about 5 ppi. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was pleasantly surprised at the results. The weft yarn filled in and the color variations of the painted warp showed through nicely. The warp floats, although no longer than three thread lengths were a bit longer than I would have liked because the weft ppi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I washed the resulting shawl in my front-loader washing machine on a relatively gentle setting. I also put it in the drier on a low setting and dried to dampness. A twisted fringe was then created using a hair twirler. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The shawl turned out to be snuggly with lots of colors interest. I'm hoping it will suit the bill.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This was an interesting exercise to figure out how to make a shawl given constraints of fiber content and a desire to use yarn that I had in my stash. I'm very happy with the result.</span><br />
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Ingridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12856580148171686040noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105780883851300453.post-43297004892703566212017-08-16T13:31:00.003-07:002017-08-16T13:31:26.256-07:00Orange Scarves<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have a lot of sock yarn I acquired with the idea of weaving scarves. Although I have woven quite a few scarves, the yarn pile doesn't seem to be dented. So as I contemplated this year's County Fair, I decided to make a scarf for the category of Nevada County Inspiration. After reviewing the colors of yarns I had, I picked several orange/red variegated yarns to use in creating a scarf that was inspired by fire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The warp yarn was Pagewood Farms Denali sock yarn in Orange Spice and the weft was Tough Love Sock in Blood Orange. I added a narrow stripe of the Tough Love Sock in the warp to give me the width I was looking for. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I dressed the loom with enough yarn for two scarves. I initially sett the scarves at 10 epi. After finishing the first scarf, I realized it was sett too widely. So I cut it off and resleyed the warp at 15 epi. The second scarf was woven using Tosh Sock in a medium red for the weft.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Both scarves were wet finished in my front loader washing machine on a gentle settling and dried flat. The fringes were finished by twisting and I added some beads. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Even though the scarf sett at 10 epi was fine, the second scarf had a much better hand. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The scarves are different widths, because of the different sett.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the spirit of using up yarn and having yarn left over from these two scarves, decided to create a warp from left over orange and red yarns from this and previous projects. These were also sock weight yarns. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The warp was wound with two yarns at a time so that the different colors could be spread across the warp rather than having stripes of the different orange or red variations. I decided to use a different point twill. The tie-up was a 1-1-1-1-2-2 twill. It was sett at 15 epi. The scarf was woven with the Tosh Sock used in the second scarf above tromp as writ.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Although the variegations in the yarn obscured the pattern in spots, there is a definite pattern that can be seen across the scarf.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The scarf was wet finished and then fringe was twisted as above, although I didn't add any beads. This scarf is a little more dramatic that the two others and I like the pattern design that comes through. I am planning to use the draft or something like it again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There's more sock yarn in my stash that will be transformed to scarves, hopefully soon.</span></div>
Ingridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12856580148171686040noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105780883851300453.post-40382357281614588792017-06-30T15:24:00.001-07:002017-06-30T15:24:55.078-07:00Mother Nature Towels<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm still weaving towels, but just not as much recently. I got inspired by this magazine ad in colors that are definitely not my colors. Working with colors that I don't particularly appeal to me is a good challenge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I played around with what colors to use and decided on six. I didn't have just the right orange, so I decided on a red and a couple of olivey greens to go with the navy and melon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is 10/2 mercerized cotton,<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> sett at 30 epi. These were threaded as an 8-shaft variable point and treadled with a 2-2-1-1-1-1 twill tie-up. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I wove ten towels with weft colors that were the same as the warp colors. The treadling was mostly an 8-point twill but I used other variations of point twills.</span><br />
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Because I named these Mother Nature Towels, to match the ad information, I kept hearing the Beatle's song, "Mother Nature's Son" so I'll leave you a link so that you can hear it too... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZJMaRMbRro </div>
Ingridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12856580148171686040noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105780883851300453.post-73003699263761001582017-06-30T14:16:00.001-07:002017-06-30T15:47:40.240-07:00A Shawl from the Stash<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I haven't been weaving as much recently but I have been working to reduce the volume of my stash. What better way to do that than making a shawl? I have been buying Mountain Colors yarns for several years and just admiring them. I decided to actually use the yarn - novel concept, I know. The nice thing about Mountain Colors yarn is that many of the yarns have colors in them that are found in other colorways or are complementary to other colorways. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I wasn't sure I had enough of any one yarn for the warp so I picked Ruby River 4/8's wool as the main body of the shawl warp and Goldrush 4/8's wool for two outer stripes of warp. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The warp was sett at 8 epi and threaded to a long point twill on 8 shafts. The tie-up is a 1-1-1-1-2-2 twill.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: left;">The weft was mainly Alpaca Blend in Goldrush with Alpaca Blend (50% alpaca and 50% wool) in Ruby River. The shawl turned out to look pretty good. The large "point" and different color selvedges and large "point" design give it interest in addition to the color variegation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The shawl was machine washed on gentle cycle and laid flat to dry. When dry, the fringe was twisted with a hair twister.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The color of these pictures is pretty true, although these colors are very challenging for me to photograph. They often come out very orange.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am planning to keep looking for ways to reduce my stockpile of yarn. This does seem to be a great way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My weaving discussion group took on a challenge last year called Weaver's Poker. In our version of the game, we came up with options for five different attributes of a handwoven project: Structure, Yarn Fiber Type, Color, Color Relationship and Design Element. We drew cards from grab bags containing the five different aspects. Each person had the flexibility of discarding one of the attribute cards. Here's my hand: Color – Orange; <o:p></o:p>Color Relationship – Split Complement; Yarn – Linen; Structure – M's and O's; Design Element Large Checks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Even though we could throw out one of the attributes, I decided to use all of the cards. I selected 22/2 cottolin in Autumn red, Light Green and Aqua for the orange and the split complements - blue and green. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The warp was sett at 24 epi, two threads per dent in a 12 dent reed. The resulting fabric was a towel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The color and texture of the final piece was nice but there was some puckering and draw in because of the M's and O's.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdf8; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Based on that, I decided to just do the one towel in the M's and O's design. I rethread the warp to weave a turned twill instead. This design used a 3/1 twill versus a 1/3 twill. The 8-shaft design changed blocks when the warp color changed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I wove three whole towels plus a half piece. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">These towels were also sett at 24 epi. I think they could have been sett a bit more densely. They feel nice but perhaps slightly loose. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The blue weft towel was woven with eight picks of one block and twelve of the other. The green weft towels were woven with block changes that matched the color changes in the warp. It is kind of a plaid in texture. The third towel used all of the warp colors in the weft and changed blocks to match the warp. </span></div>
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Ingridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12856580148171686040noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105780883851300453.post-54150978200184382842017-03-02T15:18:00.005-08:002017-03-02T15:18:56.251-08:00Scarves<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I've been focusing more time on weaving things that aren't towels. This gives me a chance to weave with some beautiful yarns typically used for knitting. I've had this warp on my loom for several months - Malabrigo Arroyo in the Archangel color. I had planned two scarves and wove the first one in October or November. The warp languished a bit but the second scarf came off this week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I decided to do an advancing twill with a 2-2-3-1 tie-up on 8 shafts. The warp was sett at 8 epi. I thought this would give the scarf texture but not too much since any other pattern would get lost in the variegation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I decided to use Malabrigo Rios in the same color for the weft. This is similar in size but not exactly the same as the Arroyo. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The result had a nice hand and drape. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I wasn't totally happy with the way the floats fell, so I changed the tie-up for the second scarf. The threading stayed the same. The tie-up is a 2-1-1-1-2-1 twill. This still had a 4 end weft float but otherwise seemed ok. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The weft for this scarf was Malabrigo Arroyo in the color Purpuras. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The scarf turned out nicely - different than the first scarf because of the tie-up and darker weft but pretty similar. Both scarves have a twisted fringe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If it's February, it must be time to weave samples for the Complex Weavers 24 +/- Study Group. For some reason, it's always a last minute thing for me. This year was pretty last minute, although I have been later in past years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For this round of samples, I played around a little with network drafting. I use Fiberworks PCW software to help plan my designs. One of the features of the program is that you can draw a shape in the threading area and convert it to a network draft. This makes the process fairly easy although you still have to make sure the transition between the repeats works OK. I honestly didn't spend too much time tweeting this design. I wasn't entirely happy with it but the samples are a time to experiment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For the tie-up, I decided I wanted to have the fabric be weft faced. That way I was lifting fewer shafts that were left down and I would get something different on each face of the cloth. I was able to "draw" diagonal lines in the tie-up box to create the tie-up. I planned to weave it as threaded, (i.e. trop as writ).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I picked 10/2 cotton for both the warp and weft, since I have a lot of it and for a change pick colors I like. (Normally, I use this exercise as a way to use up yarn colors I don't particularly care for.) I selected two colors for the warp - UKI Crab (green) and Lt Turk (blue). I alternated these colors across the warp. I find that using two colors in the warp of similar value will often give added interest to the finished textile.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I wasn't sure what color weft I wanted to use, so I wove a couple inches of four colors. From bottom to top they are: UKI Spec Turk (blue), Hummingbird (purple), Ind Orange and Lt Orange.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I like the resulting cloth. It was a shame to cut it up because there was both iridescence and shine that I'm not sure the 3" x 3" squares have. The warp- and weft-faced sides are nicely complementary.</span><br />
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Ingridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12856580148171686040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105780883851300453.post-3723392865775453052017-01-02T09:04:00.000-08:002017-01-02T09:04:58.191-08:00A Warm Shawl for a Wintery Day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm working on reducing the bulk of my stash, so I looked in my bin of Mountain Colors yarns and found three skeins of Twizzle in the color Northern Lights. In addition to reducing my stash, I'm trying to work with my nicest yarns. I really love working with Mountain Colors yarns. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I also found a skein of Alpaca Blend in the Gold Rush. It had some of the same colors as the Twizzle. It also had a smoother texture which I thought would help it blend in rather than jump out versus the warp yarn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Since the warp had lots of color variations, I thought that a simpler design would be better than something with a lot of pattern. I thread the warp to a straight draw and tied up to a 2-2-1-1-1-1 twill. I decided that this would be balanced and be a little more interesting than just plain weave or a 2-2 twill. It will also give the shawl more drape that if I wove it in plain weave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was pleasantly surprised that the warp did a little self-striping with the yellow standing out. It looked like I had planned it but it was all how the warp colors landed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The shawl turned out looking great. It has a nice drape and feels substantial but not heavy. I washed it by hand and laid it out to dry on our last clear day. I twisted the fringes to finish the look. </span></div>
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Ingridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12856580148171686040noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105780883851300453.post-52516936151095323672016-08-09T19:34:00.001-07:002016-08-09T19:34:22.585-07:00Wooly Shawl<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In my quest to get as many things woven for the County Fair as possible, coupled with a desire to use up stash yarn, I wove a woolen shawl using Mountain Colors yarns http://www.mountaincolors.com. The warp yarns were purchased as a knitted shawl kit many years ago. The yarns included Mountain Goat (worsted), Merino Ribbon, Wooly Feathers, and Mohair in the Sierra Colorway. (I chose not to use the Moguls yarn, also included in the kit. It had very large bumps that didn't seem to lend themselves to this project.) For the weft, I used another Mountain Goat yarn in the Yellowstone colorway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The warp yarns were wound in "stripes of texture". Some sections used all four types of yarn or just two or in a few cases, just one - depending on how much yarn was left as I wound the warp. It was sett at 10 epi, which seemed to be a good compromise for the sett of all of the different yarns. The warp was threaded to a straight threading on 8-shafts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Since the colors were so close in value and color - even the weft versus the warp, I decided to keep the structure relatively simple. I wanted to use a twill in order to increase the drape of the final shawl. So I used my standard 3-2-1-1-1 tie-up and wove it as threaded.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The weaving turned out to be slow and somewhat painful. The mohair was a slight problem, getting twisted with the yarns on each side. (Neither the mohair nor the feathery yarns were adjacent to each other or themselves.) The Wooly Feathers yarn was so attracted to it's neighboring yarns that it took about 10 minutes to weave each inch. I had to clear each shed before I could throw the shuttle. I'm pretty sure that I am not going to use this type of yarn in a warp again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I twisted the fringe before wet finishing it. This proved to take a fair amount of time too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm pleased with the result and I hope to weave more shawls with wool yarns in the future.</span></div>
Ingridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12856580148171686040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105780883851300453.post-2562134360049564942016-08-09T18:22:00.002-07:002016-08-09T18:25:05.035-07:00Yuba River Scarf Plus One<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Another Fair category in the Wool Division is Nevada County Inspired. This category is for entries that have been produce with some aspect of our County in mine. I think it replaced "Fair Theme Inspired" several years go. I love to enter this category - to keep the numbers up for it since it is an interesting category, and {truthfully} since it is one of the few categories with a cash prize. :-) ) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This year I was a bit busy and not particularly inspired. I have been looking through my yarn stash with the idea of doing projects that are relatively quick and can use up some of the yarn I have. I purchased a fair amount of sock yarn to weaving into scarves. I found several skeins of blue-green variegated sock yarn in two slightly different shades. They looked a lot like the Yuba River that runs through the County and I got inspired to make a couple of scarves. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This was the first time I've warped two scarves together. Normally, I either have one skein with enough for one scarf - warp and weft or I felt safer just warping one at a time. I did have to use a little of the yarn color I was planning to use for weft in the warp. It is about an inch at one of the selvedges.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I used an extended point twill threading. I like how this threading can result in large diamonds or other geometric shapes. The warp (Knit One crochet two's Crock-O-Dye) was sett at 12 epi. The tie-up is my standard 3-2-1-1-1 that I have been using for towels. (Again, see the previous post about not wanting to get under the loom to re-chain.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Yuba Inspired Scarf was woven as threaded - i.e., with large extended point threading. The second scarf was threadled in a small point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This yarn is variegated and creates a plaid effect by using it in the warp and weft. The pattern is very subtle but in the detail pictures, the design can be seen. It may not seem worth it to weave anything other than plain weave with this yarn but I like the extra texture that it creates.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>I like the resulting scarves. The Yuba River is a very inspiring landmark.</span></div>
Ingridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12856580148171686040noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105780883851300453.post-17720997785929374382016-08-08T19:00:00.001-07:002016-08-08T19:00:58.182-07:00Handspun Yarn Project<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The County Fair is right around the corner so it is the season to work on entries. There is an underrepresented category in the Woven with Handspun Division called Collaborative Spinner/Maker. The entries for this category are produced by two or more people with a woven item make from at least 50% handspun yarn. Not being a spinner myself, I was able to get yarn for this purpose from my friend Beryl (http://bannermountaintextiles.blogspot.com). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I don't often work with wool, but I thought about a scarf with two of the yarns Beryl offered. Her yarn was the green and dark brown ones pictured below. The strand of yarn pictured below was a handspun I had but can't remember where I got it. It was labeled Hummingbird Handspun and might be Hummingbird Moon Handspun. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am trying to use some new weave structures, so I thought I might try an advancing twill. This one is pretty basic on 8-shafts. I did decide to use the tie-up I have on my Cranbrook loom (to keep me from having to get under it and rechain). This is the same 3-2-1-1-1 tie up that I use with towels. I calculated that I wouldn't have enough green for the entire warp. I thought about alternating the green and brown but realized it would hide the pattern. So, I used the green for the majority of the warp with stripes of brown on the selvedges. I used the Hummingbird for the weft.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The warp was sett at 8 epi. This might have been a bit dense for this warp and the weft I chose for a scarf, but it feels perfect for a table runner. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The project wove fine without any difficulties. The weft yarn was brown overall but had bits of the green and other complementary colors. It seemed ideal. </span><br />
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Ingridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12856580148171686040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105780883851300453.post-10332641225220770532016-07-10T18:56:00.003-07:002016-07-10T18:56:42.976-07:00More Towels<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's been a while since I posted anything new. I have been weaving but just doing more towels - different colors but similar yarns, sett and structures. But I've liked them. These are all woven using 10/2 mercerized cotton yarn. They were sett at 28 epi. They were threaded to some sort of 8 point twill - regular point, M's & W's, M's & M's, irregular 8-shaft point, etc. The tie-up is a 3-2-1-1-1-1 twill. In all cases, warp yarns were used for the weft and the towels were treadled in each color as a regular 8-point twill and then the next instance of that weft color was treadled as an irregular point twill; M's & W's, M's & M's, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Two of the color combinations were ones I had used before. In this first set, originally woven for my friend Odette, the sequence of the warp threads were as I wove these towels before. http://foothillweaving.blogspot.com/2015/09/springy-towels.html</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Looking for other color combinations, I looked at http://www.design-seeds.com This website presents pictures than color pallets derived from those pictures. I loved this picture of multi-colored carrots. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">My friend Sue was looking for towels that would match an upholstered sofa. Working with the vagaries of computer screens and printers, I found a combination of colors we both liked. The resulting towels gave a fairly broad range of overall colors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This last set of towels is one of my favorites. This is actually the fourth time I've woven towels using this color combination. This time I did find a different striping sequence and although the proportions of each color was about the same. These towels were sett at 30 epi. I think this thickness of towels is very good. It is easier to thread the warp through the reed using two threads per dent on a 15 dent reed rather than a combination of 2-2-2-1 per dent for a 28 epi sett. </span></div>
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Ingridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12856580148171686040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105780883851300453.post-71833528923706203922016-01-18T10:29:00.000-08:002016-01-18T10:29:16.847-08:00New Year, Maybe New Ideas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The holidays are over, the company is gone and if it doesn't rain today all of the decorations, etc. will be put away under the house. So my thoughts are turning back to the loom. I have been working slowly on a new set of towels. They were slated to be finished in November but they might be finished this month.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I put enough warp on the loom for 12 towel instead of my usual 10. They are still 10/2 cotton, sett at 26 epi, but I'm thinking about setting the next batch at 28 epi. Twenty-six still feels not right and 28 might be better. These were threaded as an 8-shaft point and treadled with a 2-2-1-1-1-1 twill tie-up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I am also working on my samples for the Complex Weavers 24 +/- Study Group. These are due at the beginning of February. I'm well on my way to finishing early - for the first time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I took a class last January with Bhakti Ziek, a jacquard weaver (among other things) and co-author of <em>The Woven Pixel</em>. </span><a href="http://www.bhaktiziek.com/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://www.bhaktiziek.com/</span></a> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">She helped us understand how to create designs using Photoshop (R) for a computerized dobby loom. It was a fantastic learning experience. Using these techniques and Alice Schlein's book, <em>The Liftplan Connection</em>, I designed the piece below. This piece is woven on 24 shafts with a straight draw threading.</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This is part of the textile I will be using for the samples.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The group met again this January and spent the time learning about each others' work and having the chance to critique and discuss our work. It was very inspiring to spend time with these weavers. I am hoping that this year I will be able to spend more time studying and experimenting in areas I haven't before. I will still be weaving towels but I look forward to challenging myself with other projects.</span> </div>
Ingridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12856580148171686040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105780883851300453.post-9377121325035204662015-11-09T18:53:00.002-08:002015-11-09T18:53:56.270-08:00Alpaca Shawl<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I live in an area with a lot of alpaca ranches. Well maybe these days, there are lots of alpaca ranches in a lot of places. In any event, it's nice to weave with this fiber.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I had some wool/alpaca/angora blend in a few different shades of gray so I decided to use all that I had for warp for a shawl. It was a good thing I had decided to commit it all since I needed every inch. With the different shades, I came up with a plan to move from the dark yarn through the medium grays to a natural color. It turned out to be semi-systematic with only one section that was too much of the same shade for a bit too many warp threads.</span> </span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The warp was threaded as a point twill on 8 shafts. The thread order was 1->8, 1->8, 7->1, 8->1. So kind of like a double 8 shaft point. The sett was 12 epi. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The weft was a medium gray alpaca yarn I bought at Carol's estate yarn sale several years ago. It was a nice medium color that worked well with the variation of shade in the warp.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The tie-up is my standard 2-2-1-1-1-1 that I'm using for my towels. To be honest, I have to say I used is since it was already on the loom I wanted to use and it is a pain to change the tie-up. And since I knew there were more towels in my future, I left it. This was treadled as a double point - treadles 1->8, 1->8, 7-> 1, 8->1. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I love making things that don't require doing something to the fringe in order to finish the piece. Unfortunately, this shawl needed to have the fringe "finished". I used my hair curler to twist the fringe. This takes almost as long as the weaving but worth the effort. This was the first time I finished the fringe before wet finishing the shawl.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">To wet finish this shawl, I did take it for a wash in my front loader washing machine with cool water and a handwash setting. With trepidation, I put it in the dryer on the very low setting for about 8 minutes. Fortunately it turned out great.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This is my third shawl made with mostly alpaca yarn. I think I'm starting to feel comfortable with this fiber.</span></div>
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