This is the 15th year of continuous daily publication for 365Caws. All things considered, it's likely it will be the last year as it is becoming increasingly difficult for me to find interesting material. However, I hope that I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world with my natural history posts, or encouraged a novice weaver or needleworker. If so, I've done what I set out to do.
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Repeat At Random
Day 334: Another short weaving project done! The cover on my footstool was looking rather threadbare, so I dug into the scrap knitting worsted I usually reserve for stripes in hats and socks to see if I had enough to make a replacement. As I sorted through the colours, I began to see an autumn theme building, but many of the balls were quite small and I knew I wouldn't have enough for a true "check" pattern. About half the yarn was variegated (harder to incorporate into a scrap project). Then it hit me: a random check! The warp changes colour every ten threads, the weft every eight. I wove two lengths, so now I have a replacement on hand when this one wears out. The 3 x 5 card includes a sample for my weaving file.
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