UPDATE 01.08.13.... I finished resleying! I am determined to finish threading and at least weave a LITTLE bit tonight! I think I will be very happy with the 15 epi, I can already tell that the warp colors will seem a little richer in the finished product. It was a real challenge condensing it and keeping the threads in order so that there was still some continuity to the color changes, especially since I wasn't just condensing the existing warp, but was actually adding more yarn to it. I wound up pulling out sections at random and resleying them en masse, so the two skeins I used are combined in a sort of random stripe. I don't think it will be visible in the finished shawl but the two skeins of Ella Rae were noticably different so it's better this way. I didn't want to just alternate skeins because I was afraid the color changes would be two random and jarring. With any luck I will be able to post a picture from my ipod onto here once I've got the ball rolling tonight!
UPDATE 01.06.13: Ok... I have unwoven everything I had done (about 16 inches, 4 bobbins) and the heddles are unthreaded so I am ready to resley at 15 epi. Unfortunately I won't be able to post photos for about two weeks, as my laptop is going on the road with my husband on a business trip. :-( I may try to post some pictures directly from my Ipod, but they probably won't be of the quality that I generally like to use. My goal is to be able to send my husband a picture of the finished shawl sometime next week! Wish me luck everyone! I am definitely keeping this one for myself- after all, a weaver has to be able to exhibit sample wares, right?
UPDATE: have aprox. 5 inches woven. I wish I had sett it at 15 epi. Or even 12 (if I had a 12 dent reed, of course...) I am having to remind myself that the sample of the ella rae I washed and dried already lofted up to almost twice the width, and the sock yarn will do the same, but perhaps not so dramatically. Having serious concerns over the amount of weft I have. I think tomorrow I am going to find a yarn in a complementary blue or green and do this project in weft stripes. Better safe than sorry!....
01.01.2013 This one scares me. I bought these yarns ages ago from Odd Balls Yarn shop (also the producer of the sock yarn weft), and the Ella Rae is so gosh-darn nice, it absolutely terrifies me to finally use it! I'm still deciding on a pattern. It would probably be nice in plain weave, but... bleah. The color is off in the weft yarn pic so I will try again tomorrow when the light is better. My goal is to thread the heddles and beam on tonight and maybe get started weaving? Maybe.
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