Thursday, December 26, 2013

Mixed greens

I just took a shawl off the loom so I am using the same threading for my next project.  I tied on to the remaining warp and beamed the back beam.  Since I was using bamboo on the last project I had a 10 dent reed on the loom.  I decided to use Tencel this time so I needed to change the reed to a 12 dent and sett it at 24 EPI.  

This warp I mixed 3 colors of greens, light yellow, and orange.  I used a warping paddle for the greens and put an orange thread after every 15 greens.

I decided to use the undulated twill draft to highlight the warp colors.  I did not want a fancy pattern; as I thought the colors of the warp should be dominant. 

I started the first scarf using a medium green.  I am very happy with the results.  
The only thing I would do different next time is to space the orange warp thread to hit where the design changes direction.

Also on this project I started using an end feed shuttle.  The selvedge is much better with this shuttle. I'll go into the difference at another time.

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