Spots Before My Eyes

I made 8 cushions last weekend, I was on a roll. I need to buy some cushion pads, they measure 13x20 inches and I have a couple that are 14 inches square. I made them using the purple fabric I finished before Christmas. There's also two using the blue warp from the verdigris project and the deflected double weave.

I've also started a new project weaving spots, it's in Black Welsh yarn and a yellow mixed breed wool. The yellow yarn looked greener on the cone, yellow is not one of my favourite colours but it looks great with the Black Welsh. It's weaving up beautifully, I thought the Black welsh would have been sticky because it is quite hairy but no it's being very well behaved, I've opened up the sett which helps enormously. This is the same yarn I used for the Burrell project but the sett was tighter for that so caused the warp to stick a bit.

The weave looks quite open but will close up once the fabric is washed and fulled.

The colours are not quite right the yellow is more sunny, this looks like a drab beige.

Inkle Weaving

I had a go at inkle weaving last weekend, I've been intrigued for quite some time about this but have been too wrapped up with loom weaving to indulge. We had an inhouse workshop session at the guild, warping was never going to be an issue but when I'd browsed through weaving books the heddles had looked really fiddly and I think this was what had put me off. However I was shown an easy peasy method and I was off. I borrowed a loom from the guild and warped it up myself. It was a really simple pattern in just two colours as I didn't know what effect warping would have on the design as I'd had to leave the workshop before we looked at warping design so I just made something up. But it was a really good learning experience and something I could have a better look at. Inkle weaving is a warp faced textile, that is it's only the warp that shows not the weft.

As usual my left selvedge is better than my right, it's just a bit tricky gauging how tight to pull the weft.

I've had a go at tablet weaving before now and it would be good to do this again, but I found warping the cards a bit of a pain so need to see if there's an easier way, there's got to be.