FINALLY GETTING BACK TO SOME REGULAR WEAVING.
It was gardening season and then baby blanket weaving back in early spring. I still have to blog some pictures of those. Then I purchased a beautiful new-to-me loom, an 8 shaft, 50" Norwood. It needed refurbishing, oiled and set up in the living room as it is too large to fit up the stairs in the studio and is a beautiful cherry wood so it matches the piano in there anyway. I plan to make some wider baby blankets.
In the meantime I have some orders for scarves and I want to get the 12 shaft J Made out of the other corner of the living room so I'm doing a couple scarves on that loom before I either sell it or dismantle it to take upstairs. It very futzy to work on smoothly, so I'll decide after these next scarves.
I've been wanting to use some bright oranges and magentas in a block weave scarf, so I picked out some colors and skeins I thought might work. Then ran into issues with finding a weft that wouldn't muddy up the colors. The orange and purples didn't look good woven together. But blue goes with both orange and magenta, so blue it is.
For the second scarf I ended up with a blue red and this came out the closest to what I was originally imagining.
I used Patty Lamb's draft from Handwoven magazine Oct '20. I had done the Seaside scarves last fall and the warp was still on the loom, so I tied onto it. Now I'm thinking about tying on (if my finger neuropathy and thumb arthritis calm down) another warp with a skein of some blues and greens. And then I'll move that Jmade loom either upstairs or out.
