Weaverly

Weaving Upside Down & Rightside Up

I showed you this Park Weave example a few days ago, and thought I'd try it with another color/yarn/fiber combination. It had more risers than sinkers, though, so I tried weaving it upside down––that is, with the liftplan inverted––so that I had fewer levers to push. 

I don't have any pictures of the upside down version, but let me tell you: even though the weaving was easier upside down, the visual experience while weaving was more interesting in the rightside up version. 

So I embarked on another block arrangement, also rightside up (some of the picks lift 7 of the 8 shafts!). The pattern weft this time is 3/2 perle cotton. 

 

I am attempting to keep the diagonals at about 45° and I believe it's pretty close.

Recently finished reading Julie Otsuka's The Swimmers (loved it) and Emily St. John Mandel's Last Night in Montreal (kind of a mess). 

Blue

It's not the New Mexico sky but I'll take it. Happy Spring. Who says blue is a sad color?

The blue heron grows bolder every day. I turn a corner and there she is.  I am allowed to get up close. 

Indoors, there is this. On the other side of the world, but right here in my living room. Formula 1.

And by pure coincidence, this is my current spin. Corriedale (75%) and lotus fiber (25%) from Hilltop Cloud. I will eventually ply it and use it in a warp.

Pink

This morning in Simpsonville. I have no words. 

But it does segue into a new warp story. Shades of red, burgundy, orange, brown, and pink.

Warp chain ready for my 8-shaft loom.

Tied down and ready to go.

The weave structure is the Park Weave, beautifully explained by Marcy Petrini her article Determining Tabby Order in the current issue of Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot. The interpretation is my own, along with the handspun wool yarn used as pattern weft. Warp is a combination of cotton and Tencel, tabby weft is fine brown cotton.

Department of Books:

Just finished reading Julie Otsuka's The Swimmers.