Growth- Specimen
Woven for the Handwoven Sock Yarn Contest.
It is a tabby with knotted pile, made to look like mold growth.
All the yarn is hand dyed by ikat tie off or hand painted warp and weft.
Mediterranean and Oaks & Hickories 2
These went to friends in Colo. Both are color ways from Three Waters Farm. For Mediterranean, I spun 2-ply warp from commercially dyed Merino top (a dark purple). I let the 2-ply painted yarn marl, but I Navajo-plied the last little bit and made "bunches" with that as accents. For Oaks and Hickories 2, I used orange Chinese lamb's wool lace weight as the warp and Navajo-plied the painted yarn. It came out shorter than 2 yards because I had a "Well, duh!" moment. I had some yarn left from Oaks and Hickories 1 and started with that, and though the colors are the same, the patterning isn't. I cut off the first 10 inches or so and hemmed both ends.
Pretty table mat
Some of the warp I hand painted with fiber reactive dye. I combined it as stripes with white. I wove some plain weave in white, combined with overshot type patterning in blue and lavender colors.
I decided to include some Brooks Bouquet on either side of the patterned areas.
I used the "Weaver's Fancy" pattern from "A Handweaver's Pattern Book" by Marguerite Davison combined with straight twill at the outer edges. I attempted to reverse the straight twill to keep the pattern facing inward, but was not completely successful at it. Something mathematical, I suppose - I don't really know what happened.
I warped 16 white, 10 dyed, 22 dyed with colors opposite, 10 dyed, 90 white, 10 dyed, 22 dyed opposite, 10 dyed, 16 white. The 90 white in the middle is where I used the Weaver's Fancy.
I wove 3 inches plain weave, then Brooks Bouquet on a 2-4 shed, then 5 picks plain weave.
My pattern (on a table loom, and using tabby) was as follows:
Using blue:
1&2 (2X)
2&3 (2x)
3&4 (6X)
2&3 (2X)
1&2 (2X)
Using lavender:
1&2 (4X)
1&4 (2X)
1&2 (4X) Then the blue is repeated with the first patterning. After that, 5 picks plain weave, and Brooks Bouquet. The center of the cloth is plain weave in white.
