Midnight Air

Whoof, what a morning. But I did manage to get outside to take photos of three scarves while Bella was at preschool. Conall had a great time crawling in all the leaves and grass and getting muddy...

Here's one of them:


It's rayon chenille - I don't weave with it very much anymore, but the yarn always works up so soft and cuddly, I probably should use it more often. I found the hand-dyed novelty rayon yarn (it's kind of boucle-ish, with little twisties in it, very pretty) at last year's New Hampshire Sheep and Wool Festival and it's been hanging around since then, waiting for inspiration to strike. I used it both as normal weft (the stripes) and as a supplementary weft (the middle designs).

Here's another picture:

It really was fun to weave. Maybe I *should* do more rayon chenille!

Current projects on my looms:

- on my little loom: overshot fabric (with bamboo warp, organic cotton tabby weft, zephyr for the pattern weft), probably for pillow, but I'm not sure yet

- on my big loom: just starting to wind warp/thread a bamboo/zephyr combination in warm browns/rust/copper/curry colors in shadow weave, also probably for pillows.

I'm on a pillow kick, I guess. Nice to be doing something a little different!

A new scarf!

I finally took pictures of the red/gold chenille scarf! I think this one came out pretty good... Still trying to figure out the best way to photograph handwoven stuff (and still too cheap or possibly lazy to have ordered a dress form).

I like the fun twill-ish pattern, looks like a graph Carlos would make at work (he's an analog design engineer). The colors are good too, a warm rusty red and golden brown in both the warp and weft. I seem to have lots of cool tones in my etsy shop - strange because I tend to lean towards warm colors, generally. Though I do wear cool-colored clothing most of the time because of my skin tone, so maybe that's why I've been weaving lots of cool toned items.

Anyway, overall I'm happier with how this scarf turned out than I thought I would be, always a good surprise.