Marks' Prayer Shawl...

Now, here I am trying to get the warp past the reed and through the heddles.  Many little leash sticks trying to make sense of the various batches of wound warp.  Is there a better way?

 Here are the spools I have in the pile of the colours to select from.....  
And oh yes, a bottle of wine thrown in for good measure

And then pulling through the heddles, one thread at a time.....   This is the rear view of my Cranbrook Loom.

 

Sunglasses needed dishtowel...

OK, I am finding the time to add to my blog finally.

Here are a couple pics of some dishtowels I wove with the intention of giving them to an exchange I had signed up for but, I could not let go of them.  I was told by one of the participants she needed sunglasses to look at them and I decided they gaiety was needed in my own home.

I find I love to play with colour gradients.  The warp is a variation of mercerized & unmercerized cotton with a bit of linen (one of the reds).

The weft varies.  This towel is mercerized purple cotton and peach unmercerized on the ends.  I rolled and stitched the hems.

I played with 12 threads in the warp and named them A thru L.  I took the pattern A thru L  and reversed it to L thru A  and broke up the patern with a couple stripes of a bold contrast of greens and purple stripes.   I felt like the pattern and colours and the feel of summer lawn sling back chairs, one strip I kept as A thru L and repeat A thru L as my statement of only the Goddess creates perfection.




Now I am starting to dress my loom with an array of reds, yellows and oranges as a prayer shawl for the minister who married my son and his new wife in March.  WIll get pics up soon and the ward is pulled tight.


Peace, Out for now.
Susan