The warp from the Double Rainbow class with Jennifer Moore is finally off the loom! Only took 2 months to finished 3 yards, Ha! I took some pictures of both sides of the fabric for my notes. Eventually, I'll hang up the sampler for reference. Though I did cut off a portion of the pattern I came up with at the end of the warp. My kitchen needs potholders and some rainbow bright pot holders would be fabulous. The first part of the class we did simple squares to get familiar with the double weave process and to see what type of colors we would get on the colorful warp. Here's my sample. After the simple blocks and Jennifer's block pattern she gave us in class I did some experimentation. First I tried double weave pick up and it looked terrible. If you go for matching the colors to get a single color pick up you end up with huge floats on both sides. And if you try pick up with with just a shape you can't see it because there are too many colors involved. You can see some of my failed attempts just above the Brook's bouquet in the next picture. After failing with pick up I tried Brooks bouquet. This looks a bit more interesting because you get a background and the colors pop! Not sure how I would use it in a project but it's in my sampler so maybe someday inspiration will hit. The last portion I'll show off is the rainbow pattern I ended with, and wrote about a few weeks ago; 'If Rainbow Bright had a dog on the loom'. And lastly, an extreme close up of the Brook's Bouquet for fun! Happy Weaving!
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Today I decided to work on a project that has been sitting on the loom for several months. It's the warp from Jennifer Moore's Double Rainbow class. (Hence Rainbow Bright!) It was a good class though I can't truly judge since my energetic personality doesn't do well in front of a Zoom screen, but alas, the ideas were wonderful and the techniques enlightening. Before I took the double rainbow class I finished the 4 shaft sampler from her book 'Doubleweave: revised & expanded'. Practicing the double weave concept before hand seemed helpful in understanding the evolution of the colors and blocks used during the class. Any way, after lots of samples I finally came up with something I would like to make. A continuously growing rainbow of blocks that will eventually become pot holders (maybe, I'm only 80% sure they'll be potholders). To make this rainbow in the weft direction there are a lot of color changes, but like I said the yarn is beautiful! Considering this project has been on the loom for more than a month already I'm not sure when it will get done, but hey I worked on it!
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