I got Leo's scarf all warped up. I haven't spent as much time weaving as I'd like to, but when I do, it's completely entrancing.
So far, I've been kinda winging it with my weaving projects, but since this is for someone else, I wanted to carefully plan what I did. I had two possible accent colors; red and blue. The blue was fine but both Leo and I liked the red better. So I went through three stages of plotting the pattern, shown below. I did this all in Illustrator. The first shows a very small scale plaid, which would be fine but I have found that stripes that are less than 4 rows long don't look as nice because you have to weave in the ends and they take up as much extra space as the rows themselves. So the second version shows the same plaid but with all the rows doubled. The last version has the plaid slightly modified and offset so the center stripe is the accent color. You can click each of the swatches to embiggen.
As much as I like the plaid, I might make a version for me that's thinner and has just the vertical stripes. I think that'd look pretty nifty, and I'll have plenty of the yarn left over.
The dynamics of working a weaving project is pretty different than knitting. With knitting, if I get a little bored with a project, it can go into a black hole of solitude, never to be seen again (or at least until the yarn or needles are required for something else.) But with weaving, I can't start my next project until I finish the one on the loom, which means that my constant startitis is handily defeated. It's not that weaving isn't fun it's that I have a dozen different ideas I want to execute and I can't do them all at once so I have to do crazy things like prioritize and time manage. Whoda thunkit?
I'm awaiting yarn for a publication piece so in the interim, my knitting time has been spent on some brown lace
I don't yet know if this will be submitted somewhere or self published so I'm just showing this little teaser for now. Notice the lifeline running through. Lifelines are like car insurance, damn inconvenient when everything is going fine and totally worth it when you actually need it. Ask me how I know.
Also, I think this blog needs some dog
For some reason, they'd much much rather lie on our bed than on their own.
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Comments (9)
Love the scarf. In Panda & Thea's defense - whose bed would you rather lie on? Not theirs I bet (I'm just saying what they would if they could talk human.)
Posted by Donna | April 2, 2009 10:12 PM
Posted on April 2, 2009 22:12
that lace totally looks like apple crisp!
yum!
Posted by kjerstiye | March 31, 2009 9:40 AM
Posted on March 31, 2009 09:40
Sarah beat me to it.
A Burberry scarf - very gentlemannish!
Posted by Annette | March 31, 2009 8:56 AM
Posted on March 31, 2009 08:56
Very Burberry!
Posted by Sarah | March 30, 2009 10:54 PM
Posted on March 30, 2009 22:54
wow, leo's scarf is awesome! i love it even more now that i've seen your other design idea swatches. and my pups like my bed better than their own, too :)
Posted by mai | March 30, 2009 9:35 PM
Posted on March 30, 2009 21:35
I saw the brown lace out of the corner of my eye and thought "I wonder what kind of pie that is". I was hoping you'd post the recipe!
Posted by Diane | March 30, 2009 8:56 PM
Posted on March 30, 2009 20:56
LOVE the scarf...lucky man!
I just spent quite a few hours with excel getting the pattern written up for my cardigan....just wanted to say thanks again for your great excel tutorials....they have helped me soooo much with pattern writing!
Posted by Gudrun | March 30, 2009 8:55 PM
Posted on March 30, 2009 20:55
Wowee Zowie. HWWV just asked for a scarf like the one you are making and I still don't feel like I can.
What fibers are you using?
Posted by Wendy | March 30, 2009 8:44 PM
Posted on March 30, 2009 20:44
I can't wait to see what that brown lace turns out to be. The colors are awesome.
Posted by Amy | March 30, 2009 4:43 PM
Posted on March 30, 2009 16:43