Weaverly

Bounty

Yesterday's bounty in the woods. 

How can you not stop?

The draft I showed you in the previous post... here it is again, structure only, no color. It gives you some idea of the various micro-structures. 

Here's the first woven version, after washing. The fabric is much too loosely sett, although some of the wonderful little passages are evident here.

I resleyed it, then tied on another warp, this time all tencel. The iridescence is starting to show. 

A close-up. I'm in the habit of making my floating selvedges black. 

Washing will be the final test.

I have just finished reading The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen.

Has It Been That Long?

Yes, it has been a long time, but for all the best reasons. I am working on spending less time with screens & such, and more time with the yarn. How's it going, you ask? The jury is still out.

The outdoors are calling. It has been a great spring.

I spend as much time outdoors as possible.

But when I come inside, I am working on this. Eight shafts. 

The loom is all warped and ready to go. The yarns have a mind of their own, and I have no way of predicting what will happen. The washing machine is the final arbiter.

I have recently read Ann Cleeves,The Long Call, and Ursa Sigurdardottir, Last Rituals

Waiting for the Moon

Yes, here we are, not in the path of totality, but around 80%. I think the back yard will be the best place to view it this afternoon. Report to follow.

Meanwhile, here's yesterday's azalea report.

And on the 16-shaft dobby loom, the one I was trying to sell, I've gone back to work. For some reason I'm back in love with it again. The endless warp is still endless, but perhaps approaching partial totality. It's certainly calming to just sit down and throw the shuttle mindlessly back and forth. 

Did you know that if you keep your phone in your pocket while you weave, the pedometer will count your weft picks as actual steps walked in your daily health report? True fact.

The draft is a faux huck on 16 shafts. Here's a little explanation. Straight threading. You can figure out the rest.

Odds and ends in the warp. Why the yellow selvedge on one side? Frankly, I don't remember. I wound that warp a long time ago. It had something to do with stash reduction, no doubt.

My April

When it's looking like this outdoors, I find it hard to retreat to the studio.

But I had stern words with myself and did manage to clean up my workspace a little. I put all this year's handmade books (except for the four on the left, which are longstitch books from previous years) in one spot, and they look kind of friendly together. 

On the 8-shaft loom I'm making small advances on this amalgamation project. 

And in odd moments I'm fiddling with a draft for lampas combining plain weave and twill blocks. It's a simple two-block profile. It's a bit easier to decipher if you click on it to enlarge to higher res.