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.
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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