Weaving in July

We have just finished a week of unusual weather, overcast and muggy with some rain. In fact we got heavy rain one evening which continued as a gentle soaking rain for almost twelve hours - most unusual for July. That doesn't ordinarily happen until the end of August, if it happens at all.

I finally finished the bougainvillea towels. I've decided to only weave two colors instead of eight. I'll stick to eight colors in the weft since that lets me do a little color mixing of my own, but it's much easier and cheaper to list just two sales in Etsy, rather than eight. I hand hemmed one of the red ones and have sent it in as one of my two entries in the Nevada County Fair.

I came across this scarf in Cindie Kitchen's Etsy store and was flabbergasted when she noted it was a four-shaft weave called Wall of Troy. I decided to weave this draft myself and asked her permission to share this photo in case someone else wants to give it a try.

This is the Wall of Troy draft.

I decided to weave it white on white since I have three cones of white tencel that I bought to use for painted warps - that I haven't even tried. I figured if I'm going to make a mess and waste yarn, it might as well something I have a lot of. I'm pleased at how well it's going but I have to say that warping white is hard on the eyes.

I'm astounded at my ability to find new mistakes to make. This time I left a bunch of heddles right in the middle of the heddle bar. It's more cosmetic than anything. It's not affecting the weaving but it's not pretty.

I had to get my car serviced so walked across the street to Grassroot Books and came home with these. I realize it's been a while since I've written a post about books. Next time.

Ornery cat - she snagged the bag my books were in. Check out her ears. Tomorrow is our guild's first learn-to-weave workshop and I've got the Dorothy warped and safe from Maddie under a quilt. You know how I'll be spending my Saturday.

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