Saturday, June 23, 2007

Yes!! Winter Sunset Painted Warp!

Finally, after a couple tries that resulted in very beautiful but different painted warps, I have a warp I am comfortable calling Winter Sunset.  It is gray blues, silver blues, reds, and a little coral.  I crossed the first shawl with a silver blue tencel, the second with a burgundy tencel and the third I am starting now with a greyed blue tencel.  The greyed blue is taking some fortitude to go ahead and weave it.  It looks so different from the other colors.  I'm hoping after the whole shawl is done, the grays and purple blues will come out nicely.

I'm also winding more warp for another paint job.  This one is 10/2 unmercerized in natural.  I'll underdye a base coat first.  I'm not sure of my colorways yet - will just see what happens.

On the Hammett I have rag placemats.  This warp is a blue with small yellow stripes every 1-1/2 inches.  I am crossing it with a yellow cotton sheeting right now.  I did a teal blue weft for a set of mats, too.  I'll probably weave another placemat warp before calling it done on placemats and going on to Log Cabin rugs.

Lots going on in the weaving room!

Friday, June 22, 2007