I have a scarf woven on the front beam and am working on a runner. I need to push my self to finish this project or cut it off the loom - I am tired of it.
April, this is gorgeous!!!! Keep weaving!!!!!!! XO Gail & Fog
I love to see table loom projects. Keep going!
It's lovely, but if you are tired of it, use it as a chance to experiment - with color (hue and/or value of single yarn, placement of multiple colors), grist, texture, treadling techniques (on opposites would be really fun here) etc. How far can you go without losing the stars? Can you turn the stars into something else just by how you use color? What if you replace some of the stars with leno or Brook's Bouquet or bead the occasional star? Change the treadling to create other motifs, morphing one into another. Try different setts. What do the stars do with differential shrinkage? Play and have fun :-)
Laurie Autio (who does not color within the lines well)
Thanks for your encouragement. I think I need to play around with color in order to jump-start my enthusiasm for this project. I was trying to stretch myself by weaving with colors which didn't speak to me, which I now think was a mistake - I do enjoy weaving the twill stars pattern.
I also love using a table loom - it feels more intimate to me than a floor loom - but it is much slower to do an 8-shaft pattern. I have a 8-shaft Baby Wolf and a 4-shaft LeClec which I also use regularly.
...it is okay to say "enough is enough" and go ahead and discard a half-finished project. When I have found myself avoiding my studio because of a "dog on the loom," there came a great sigh of relief and new enthusiasm after I cut it off and threw it away! Give yourself permission to do so. Every book that I start to read and every project that I start to weave does not have to be finished.
