365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Saturday, January 20, 2024
King's Flower Cloth
Day 99: The King's Flower cloth is off the loom, all 183 inches of it, and I am halfway through warping my next project. My original plan for this warp didn't work out, and I wound up having to change out the weft when the floats looked to me like they would be too long even after wet-finishing. I wove a sample piece using 8/2, but switched to 3/2 (the blue) for the remainder of the cloth. After washing the sample, I realized it would have been okay ("okay," but not ideal) if I'd stuck with it, but by then, I was well into this piece. I used up the single cone of mismatched blue dye lots, then switched to another weft to finish out the warp with two tabby-woven placemats. From start to finish, this was a "winging it" exercise, but hardly the first in my long weaving career. That said, now I'm faced with figuring out the best way to utilize five yards of King's Flower. I love the pattern, but this is not the cloth of my vision.
Labels:
King's Flower,
overshot,
weaving
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