With my rigid heddle students I try to stay one step ahead. I don't have much experience with RH myself, so it's a challenge, of the best kind. This past month has been all about honeycomb weave. I seem to have amassed a lot of samples, which in turn have become pillows. This morning I finished stuffing the last one. Here's a quick group portrait on the ironing board.
Most of these yarns are handspun, so there's a bit of stash-busing happening too.
I think I"ll be able to eke out another few samples on the turquoise warp before the loom goes in for minor surgery.
This weft is deep wine-colored cottolin, and the lift plan repeat is quite short.
Feathers, maybe?
Just finished a book I'd like to recommend: Rachel Cusk's Outline. A novel in conversations about life, relationships, and the art of writing.
The turquoise warp is behaving better as it nears the end. Who can figure these things out? Here is an amalgamation sample with a magenta cottolin weft.
Meanwhile, at OLLI, the rigid heddlers are learning a triple zig-zag stitch for joining narrow woven panels. I've never heard the room so quiet!
A nice sunlit patch in a corner for better visibility:
Aha! Success.
And this morning, yet another weft, this time yellow cottolin, on the turquoise warp. Yes, it's still amalgamation, but with a very short repeat in the lift plan.
A closer view.
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