Ever notice how much the weather dominates casual daily conversation? Hot enough for you? Cold enough for you? Wet enough for you? Yes to the last one. I was cleaning up some of the dead limbs that fell from the trees after the thunderstorms a couple of days ago, and saw this beauty, with all its excrescences, lying in the gutter amid torrents of water. The more I look at the picture, the more I see a giant eye.
Moving on…I was playing with the weather-inspired stripes from yesterday and tried to see what I could do for eight shafts. Here's the result. I'm thinking of rethreading the current warp, which is a long one, into straight draw so that I can weave this draft. Granite.
Here's a single repeat: