Getting away with murder indeed. I am breaking all the rules here. First of all, I am using handspun yarn as warp without washing it first after spinning & plying. Yup, straight off the bobbin. Second, I have done no samples to determine sett. I am just winging it. Third, I didn't check to see that the yarn would go easily through the dents in the reed. It didn't.
Nevertheless, my good weaving angel was looking out for me. There was no warp breakage, and the weaving was easy. I was able to get three cowl lengths from this 4-yard warp. The warp is alternating handspun wool blend with lyocell, 2 per dent in a 10-dent reed.
All three are different lift plans and wefts. The first one has a lyocell weft.
The second one has a fine lopi singles as weft. The contrast between the fuzzy lopi and the smooth handspun is subtle but interesting.
I bought the lopi about ten years ago on a trip to Iceland.
The third weft is a beautiful silk noil from my stash. I've had it quite a long time and finally found the right project for it. I think it was from Habu.
All of these pieces look quite different depending on the light: daylight, artificial light; and also from different angles. For the past few days I've been snapping pictures every time I pass by the loom, and I see different effects each time.
There is quite a bit of Angelina fiber in the wool mix I used for my handspun. The following picture shows the glittery bits quite clearly if you click on it to enlarge.
All of these pieces are using an interleaved non-parallel threading. I'm enjoying this threading so much that as soon as I cut the warp off, I immediately wound another warp for the same threading, this time in two alternating colors of lyocell.