To keep my very energetic brain focused on a single task I've developed my own little outline for each weaving I do.
Each category has a book attributed to it and can always grow as my abilities grow allowing me to stay focused while also doing four things at once. Hahaha! For this weave I'm doing an outdoor pillow. That means I'll want something sturdy and wear resistant. The draft should be closely sett without any potential snags on the fabric. The color I decided for this project will be in primaries since I'm still in chapter one of the Color and Fiber book. Which holy cow that book is dense! nd the last element is design, which the chapter I'm reading now is all about lines and angles. So I figured something with a simple angle would be perfect.
With those parameters I've come up with a wool pillow in a 2/2 twill using multiple shades of blue in the warp and a rust color for the weft. Maybe not perfectly primary colors but it's what I had in my stash. Then, I began warping the loom with the various blues. Then the fun begins! My angled ridges aren't perfectly straight lines but this wool yarn is very forgiving so I bet in the end it will look perfect. Also, if you notice the lines aren't at 45-degrees to the selvedge and that's because the weft yarn is slightly thinner than the warp yarn. And since I want a sturdy fabric I'm packing the weft yarn in a bit making the angle to the selvedge about 30-degrees. And finally, I have to do the close up picture because I love playing! Happy weaving!
-Val
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