Kate popped in this evening to bring me my dyed skeins, all saturated blues and blue-greens.
They include very different weights of yarn from 2/64 to something like a 2/6. This is deliberate, as I want to use them in multi-layered fabrics with different densities, though I am not proposing to put all of this lot in together.
I’ve only managed two days in the studio this week as I have had other things to take care of, but today I did manage to get my sample warp up and weaving and also spent a couple of hours on the Megado weaving the Brighton honeycomb. And I am delighted to have been included as a guest blogger over at TAFA, where I have written this post about some of the reasons I love to weave.
“Blue-Greens” was posted by Cally on 19 Dec 2014 at http://callybooker.co.uk
MegWeaves
Outsourcing. Ah, you’re getting too industrial for me, Cally.
Cally
Outsourcing? No – I did the dyeing myself, but left the skeins drying at Kate’s house!
MegWeaves
Ah, my bad; I thought you had said Kate dye it for you. Sorry.
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Interesting idea, though, as I would always much rather be weaving. I occasionally splash out and buy hand-dyed yarns, but have not so far commissioned any.
atelieralida
Beautiful colors!
Margreet
Love the colours! Is it silk?
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They all have silk in – the greenest (and shiniest!) are pure silk, while the bluer skeins are blends with merino and cashmere.
Katie Lacewell
Lovely blog post on TAFA. One question-in the first photo of the Delta, what is the spiney-looking thing on or near the beater?
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Alas, it is not an exciting or unusual weaving tool, Katie. It’s a decorative bird which a friend brought back from his holidays for me – as it matched the loom in colour I hung it from the peg which anchors the shafts for threading. These days I use a fly shuttle on the Delta, so the bird has to fly to safety when I am actually weaving, but it returns for setup.
Katie Lacewell
Ha! That’s great! Thanks! (Flap, flap)
Kate Rudy
Lovely photo! Your skeins came out in such rich and enticing colours. Let’s do another dye day soon. Squeezing out the 99-degree skeins keeps the hands warm on days like today.
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