At least I am feeling productive! This 4th piece is going to be 4 yards in length to give me a little more cloth for perhaps sleeves, to make a tunic. I’m using my handspun: a mixture of stuff I spun quite a while ago and more recently. I am spinning now the weft!
It’ll be reds and grays and charcoals.
Weaving has slowed down these past few weeks as real life insists on intruding. But this weekend I’ll be taking the piece off and finishing. Then I have to figure out how to create vests from these cloths!
I will probably dress the loom with either something off the cuff or something that I have the fiber for and pattern. Probably the second as that has been waiting on the sidelines for a bit and may as well tackle.
Spinning on the Louet and loving the big bobbins and the ease. It’s fun to have two wheels and two looms!
I have my third cloth warp on the loom! It is a hodgepodge of handspun and one fiber which I didn’t spin (the dark green). The warp colors are greens and rusts. The weft is an off white which had sparkles of sari fragments in it.
Here’s a picture of the first two together:
This second cloth is off the loom. I need to baste the ends and then wet finish it. Then it should be ready for sewing.
I am preparing a warp for a third piece of cloth. I am having a small challenge putting some colors together. I have 6 more bunches of 10 to warp and I am trying to figure out what color or colors. A light and dark green are the emphasis of this warp. There are 5 bunches of a mixed green and burgandy yarn. It’s kind of like painting, trying to figure out the composition. Ultimately I know I can’t go wrong – it’ll be what it is.
Spinning away still. Spinning a Leicester fiber and it does spin up very nicely.
I should be able to begin to dress the loom this weekend.
I am weaving away on the new warp which is a variety of handspun. I warped the loom from to back so I could play around with pattern. The weft is also handspun – a llama fiber. I am weaving this in plain weave.
