Self-shading Warp

Day 292: Sometimes, you buy something on a whim and then have to ask yourself, "What in the world am I going to do with this?" That was the case when I ordered a cone of variegated thread, always a sucker for colour. I used a little of it as weft in some project, wasn't particularly impressed with how it turned out, and thus the cone migrated to the back of the storage cupboard. While I was working on the zanshiori placemats, my mind was on what to do next. I liked the way the doubled warp was working out to balance the changes in colour, and it occurred to me that warping with the variegated blues might be a way to use the cone to good advantage. I was not expecting it to "self-shade" like this, but I love the way it's working out to look almost like a hand-painted warp. Of course, I had to add a stripe for contrast, but I am using pale blue exclusively for the weft to create a "tidal" effect.