Slubby Cotton

Day 46: Around here, you never quite know what you might find in a forgotten corner of the crafts room. In this case, another foray into the depths of the cedar chest yielded up this slubby cotton, something I purchased over thirty years ago. I bought two large hanks, roughly 800 yards in each, and apparently used one for something at some point (I have a vague recollection of having knit a top out of it) or else the twins got separated somehow and the other one is still around here someplace. The slubs are too heavy to pass through the heddle eyes as a warp thread, but a vision is forming in my mind of warping alternating black and white stripes in 8/2 cotton and then using the slubby cotton alternately with black in the weft. This is why weavers' stashes are always packed full of bits and bobs: contrary to planning logic, we're waiting for the fiber to suggest the project rather than the other way around.