Saturday, 24 January 2015

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.


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