365Caws is now in its 16th year of publication. If I am unable to post daily, I hope readers who love the natural world and fiberarts will seize those days to read the older material. Remember that this has been my journey as well, so you may find errors in my identifications of plants. I have tried to correct them as I discover them. Likewise, I have refined fiberarts techniques and have adjusted recipes, so search by tags to find the most current information. And thank you for following me!
Monday, November 21, 2022
How's It Hangin'?
Day 39: This was as far as I got with hanging a new warp on the floor loom last night. One of the drawbacks to having multiple projects going at once is having to find time to devote to one in particular, but on the other hand, it keeps me from getting bored. This will eventually turn into a waffle-weave lap throw, and is a fantastic solution for all those little balls of yarn we all save because there's too much to throw away. For each waffle repeat, I needed six strands 18' long of each colour, and where some colours had to be used two or three times, the repeats were kept separated, but still in random order. The weft will be black. Call it "Joseph's Coat," if you will, bright and cheerful in its chaos. I love doing tag-end projects whether as crazy-quilts or woven pieces. The challenge is to keep repetition to a minimum, i.e., if red occurs next to blue, it can only do so again if a different red or blue is used as one of the pairings. Chaos isn't as easy to create as you might imagine, although to look at my "loom room," you might think otherwise.

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