Pinwheels

I've always like the pinwheel weaving designs out there, and recently bought "The Pinwheel: An Exploration in Color-and-Weave Design" by Margaret Windeknecht. I've been poking through it, and this scarf was my first project from a draft in the book:


It's an 8-Shaft pinwheel design, and, of course, I had to mess with the colors a little. I kept it simple for the first warp - I wound enough for two scarves, alternating white with grey and green, wove one scarf with white and grey (this one) in the weft and a second with white and green.

It's woven with Bambu7, sett at 20 epi - I actually like the hand of the scarf after wet finishing. Beefy, but still with a very nice drape. I'm thinking of trying 18 epi at some point, but, for now, I kind of like this sett. I used floating selvedges and started the shuttles from opposite sides, so the white carried a little up one side and the grey (or green) carried up the other (this pinwheel pattern is woven with 8 shots of one color then 8 shots of the other). Not sure if this is standard practice or not, but I love the resulting selvedges.



So, onto the next version! Much less traditional, this is much more in my style. I like asymmetry (and Fibonacci!), very much, as well as the pseudo-decontructed nature of the pinwheels that you get from using mostly one color in the warp and weft, with just a bit of secondary colors. I'm planning to have another couple stripes of color in the weft further along, so that it will accent the wearer's face. Not quite sure what to do yet with the second scarf on this warp, but we'll see...

And, nope, this isn't the Weavebird - this is my 12-shaft LeClerc Colonial, also in my studio. I'm about halfway through the threading the Weavebird at this point, nice to have another, easier (simple straight draw threading and treadling), project to work on to keep my eyes from crossing too much!