I'm keeping busy this January between school, the new studio, and weaving. This week I've been organizing my new studio and getting exciting to finally have a dedicated space. I've also almost finished weaving my table runner but I hate it when my loom is bare so I switched over to designing my next project.The new studio is mostly complete. We had a long and heavy rain storm and found out one of the windows in the new building leaked. They came out and fixed it but now we have to wait for it to dry completely before we finish the painting and finally the window molding. In the mean time I organized all of my yarn up in the attic. All of my books are on the work table awaiting a huge bookshelf. And all my gadgets and looms are in the spots ready for assembly. There's extra stuff in there right now too since Danny's studio isn't complete yet but soon!! I'm weaving the plain weave portion of the table runner, or the back portion however you want to say it. Since I'm using doubled up thread it is a little slower than I usually go but I don't mind having something to weave any time is nice. Now I have about 10 inches left and I hate the idea of not having anything on the loom so I started designing some napkins that may or may not be napkins and may or may not match the table runner, ha! Basically, I took the pattern from Handwoven (Royal Table Runner N/D 2016) and I wrote down all of the blocks. Since it's an overshot pattern ever pair made a block so I had 8-7 , 6-5, 4-3 , 2-1 , 1-8 then made a simple block pattern. From there I used my fancy Fiberworks software to turn it into a Summer and Winter weave. Basically, I have the same pattern from the table runner but it is now turned into a napkin. Figured an overshot napkin would just catch on everything and I wanted something that would be structurally sound and show off a motif. The thing I'm worried about is the density. Summer and Winter tends to make a firmer fabric and I don't like the idea of napkins that hold their shape when wiping your chin. When I did my napkins last year with 20/2 cotton verses 10/2 cotton I turned out loving the 20/2 so much I gave up making the 5/2 that were apart of the experiment. That is why I'm a bit worried that a summer and winter weave might be too dense. With that said I'll be using a 10/2 warp and 20/2 weft. So maybe it will work out just right, except with Summer and Winter the weft threads slide behind each other almost like a doubleweave...but even then I'm dealing with a faux 10/2 weft (20/2 threads sliding next to each other). Hmmmm.... I wonder what would happen if I used the sewing thread for a weft??? Suppose I should at least warp the loom before I start over thinking the project any more.
Happy Weaving!
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