Well I finished the chenille scarves finally and I'm reading a bunch while weaving with the knitting yarns. Here are the finished chenille scarves: I'll have to keep them though because there are some errors I don't like. Like the fringe is a bit frayed at the ends and the length is just under 60 inches, so it's a little short in my opinion. But the Chenille warp with chenille weft is absolutely beautiful! While finishing my chenille scarves I was reading in my Color and Fiber book about the Bezold effect with textiles. Basically, the phenomenon of how colors look next to each other. Well the Color and Fiber book is my afternoon reading for studying and furthering my weaving career. Then in the evenings I read random weaving related magazines. My favorite being Robyn Spady's Heddlecraft. Well coincidence hit while I was reading September/October 2017 issue that same evening and found Robyn Spady had written about the Bezold effect as well. Ha! Did it have to be the same day? I've never heard of this effect with textiles before and I've been around textiles a long time and then, POOF!, the universe is like you must learn this! But that wasn't the only coincidence last week.
I'm also reading 'The Complete Book of Drafting for Handweavers' by Madelyn van der Hoogt and I was in the section discussing Unit weaves and Lace weaves. When I decided to take a break and and sit outside for a bit, have some lunch, breathe fresh air, that kind of thing. So I grabbed HGA's Shuttle, Spindle, & Dyepot magazine in case I wanted to flip through something. And guess what was in the Summer 1998 issue I took out with me. Yep, Lace Weaves! The HGA does a learning exchange internationally and this was the culmination of their understanding of Lace weaves. And it just happened to be the same day I was reading about Lace weaves in my study book. This last week was a strange week to say the least. And this week is the HGAs Spinning and Weaving week! Yesterday I watched most of their talks and studio tours. I loved it! Lots of people talking about the craft they love while sharing stories and lessons. Pretty much my mecca :) Which the tours have started already today so I should jump over there and listen. Maybe there will be another coincidence around the corner. Happy Weaving! Val
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Last week I thought I would weave up a simple scarf and have an easy project. Welp, the weaving is easy but the colors kept attacking me! My four categories were easy:
The part that made me insane was that I worked with chenille yarn. So the usual color and weave effects were drastically blurred and... well... nothing looked very elegant together. Since I wanted rich hues I warped up 7 yards of this beautiful deep red chenille and was ready to use a light gold chenille as the warp. Immediately I hated the sett! So I rethreaded the red chenille in the reed, adding about an inch on both sides. And I didn't really like how the gold yarn took away from the beautiful red. That meant I started sampling.... Maybe purple would give a subtle design and keep the beautiful red. Nope not a fan.... Maybe thicker chenille, or silver, or pink, or.... Nope! Well Christmas is around the corner maybe dark greens! Or beautiful white! Nope! Okay fine what about sparkles! I won the Mystery Novel contest at our guild this summer which means I have new Rayon/Metallic yarn! Oh! wow and I dug so far into my stash I found silver Lurex, gold Lurex, and a crazy multi-colored metallic yarn. Ha! I started with the multicolored metallic and decided it had to go with a white chenille so I unwove it all. And tried the silver Lurex Meh.... At this point I had run out of sampling area so everything I tried had to be unwoven. This is also day 2 of me fussing with it. Which meant I was lost, nothing I tried really jumped out at me and now I was realizing two things. 1. This is why people wind yarns onto a card before warping 7 yards on to their loom! 2. Chenille and diamond patterns need more thought before warping 7 yards of material on their loom! Anyway, I was looking at all the yarns I had tried.... And I started thinking about how I liked the lighter yarns because they made the pattern prevalent, but I needed a warm yarn to compliment the red warp. And I did a face palm because lighter and warmer is GOLD...like the very first yarn I tried!!!!!!!! Yep, it's not life changing-ly beautiful but it is a nice combination of colors and pattern. I finally finished one scarf in the diamond shape and then decided to mess with the pattern for the second scarf. Though I will only be changing it once! Well this really simple project ended up taking 4 days! It was supposed to be an easy weave so that this week I could do something more intricate but I guess sometimes the easy road isn't really all that easy!
Until next time, happy weaving! |
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