Update On Weaving Projects

Bison Rug

If you look back a couple of posts, you can see the picture of the rug I made with the Bison silhouette.  I ended up donating it to the "Build a Better Wilsall" Auction last weekend and heard from several people last week about how much they liked it.  I also heard that it brought in quite a bit of money for the community in Wilsall.  Since I really didn't want the rug, but also didn't want to try to sell it with the broken warp thread, this seemed like a pretty good win/win situation.


Here is a picture of my Rio Grande Walking Loom that is warped and ready.  I just don't have any clear inspiration of what to begin.  It is warped to about 45 inches wide; wider than I have done on that loom so it will be interesting to get going on it.  I'll keep you posted about what I start.

The Rio Grande warped and ready to weave... just waiting for the right inspiration!

After finally getting the Bison rug off the loom this summer, I was motivated to get all three looms warped, so I put the blue warp on the Cranbrook for the scarf for my son, and then also put a rayon chenille warp on the Allen loom for a couple of shawls.

Rayon Chenille with Railroad Yarn... quite a bit like one I did last year.
Have enough for 2 shawls and am planning to do the second in more of a burgundy color...

After I cut off the blue scarf from the Cranbrook, I wound an off-white / white warp from 10/2 cotton for a scarf for a friend of my son and a scarf for my high school age son.  We decided that something more feminine would be good in the off-white, so I tied on the warp to what was already threaded on the Cranbrook and wound on a warp for the 2 scarfs.  I am using the same advancing twill structure for the scarf for his friend and am pleased with it so far.  The fiber is quite a bit finer than the 8/2 cotton, so am feeling like it will drape nicely and be really pretty in a very subtle way.

10/2 cotton for a scarf for Liz

I am hoping to get this finished this week and then get started on the scarf with the same warp for my second son.  The weft for his will be black.









I also have two other scarfs that I will be making as commissions for a couple of people that I am planning to make using 60/2 silk.  It is a really fine fiber and should be interesting to use.  The scarf I made from 20/2 silk was really nice to work with, so I am looking forward to this.  But in order to use the draft that I am planning to use I am going to have to die some silk yarn that I have on order.  That will be another adventure in my weaving growth, so I will try to chronicle that process.  That will have to be in September,  so stay tuned for that.