Next pillow in my pillow-making-experimental-series. And as well the first project of the first-Blogging-WAL-ever, I started on my blog http://faserig.wordpress.com. The job is to weave a pillow; material/color/technique is up to the weaver; every weaver blogs about progresses in her blog and informs the others about new articles.
15.07.2011
Starting date is 1st of August, so I have 14 days left. Which means, it's high time to prepare the yarn. The warp will be crochet cotton, but the weft will be handspun and dyed and so I finished today the spinning part. I used a combed top of german Merino and spun a thick yarn out of it (three singles twisted together)
24.07.2011
In order to get some information about the amount of every color, I made a small sampler. After designing the pattern, I could estimate the needed colors and began to dye - first time wih Ashford colors. Made a bright orange, blue and a darker blue. Unfortunately, I made not enough yarn, so I have to spin and dye the same amount of yarn again for the second side of the pillow while weaving the first one.
10.08.2011
I started weaving and knotting. :-)
The symbol that I chose as motif is a symbol of delight (I hope I found the correct translation for it; it stands for the lust for life, the pleasure on doing things that you like ,...) - therefore the name of the project
05.01.2012
This kind of weaving isn't my favorit one... will need some other months to get finished. :-/
What a great idea! What loom are you using?
Thank you... you can still participate, we just started! Did you ever make a pillow with backstrap-weaving? :-)
The loom is a rigid heddle loom.
Veeery tempting! I picked up 90 little packets of pre cut yarn from a recycling place...all free! when I was in the US and want to try it for pile weaving on my backstrap loom. However, I just started a shadow weave on my backstrap loom AND we are starting a plain weave backstrap WAL on Ravelry on Sep 1st.
hmmm....I wonder if I could somehow squeeze cut pile into the category of "plain weave" for the WAL......!!
:-D Well, the shots between the knotted pile are clearly plain weave.
But you could do a normal plain-weave-pillow as well. The technique one use is up to the participants. One project - two WALs: that's what I call efficiency. ;-)
