This is the reeling of the alien yarns. I am very happy with it, as is the client. The only change I made is to switch out the medium blue for a slightly darker shade as I felt it would blend in too much once the weft is added.
Here is a “I am trying to be artsy, but forgot too look at the background” photo of the actual yarns. (Please disregard my piles of things to be hemmed on the ironing board. I prefer to think of this as proof that I do actually use my iron and ironing board, regularly, if not for the intended purpose) I am always shocked at photos like this, because the colours above look good together, at least to my eye. Down below, well….let’s just say I would not pick this group of colours out of the crowd at the school dance. The large blocks of solid colours never fails to look completely different from what I envision them to be in a warp. The trick here, my friends, is to soldier on, and trust that the end will look like the reeling. (It almost always does)
So, I buckled down, and measured the warp, then chained it, and took it upstairs to acquaint it with the loom that will help me transform it into something amazing.
Chained to my work…..I always think of this phrase when I chain a warp, and I always wonder to myself:
“Why is that phrase used in a negative way?” Because really, what is more wonderful that chains of yarn, just waiting to become a piece of handwoven art?
(All things needed to measure a warp in a single, mostly continuous session….yarn, pencil and paper to help keep track of where you are in the thread order, a BIG glass of water, and a good audiobook to help pass the time)
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