Has anyone thought about what they are going to attempt after the WALs?
I have just finished warping up my next project to re-enforce what I hope I have learned. I want to make a small bag, and will be doing it in strips. I have chosen some charming pick-up designs from a chart by Mary Meigs Atwater and they will go each side of a central band, which I finished warping up this evening.
The warp is Perle # 5, and I have chosen pale blue as the background colour. So far I am using bright red and dark blue for stripes, and dark blue for a small pick-up design in the middle of this piece, and hopefully I will manage to cope with controlling several elements at once. The stripes should take care of themselves, so I really only have to worry about the motif., which is the same one that Virag chose from the Cahlander book " Bolivian Highland Weaving" p47. I shall be doing the motif in double weave to give added support to the walls of the bag as I haven't decided how I shall fasten it yet, and this gives me an extra choice.
The band is about 2 1/2 inches wide and the motif itself is 12 doubled warps wide. The band is 276 ends wide and the sett is a little over 50 epi, but this is warp faced, so its not as drastic as it sounds! Photos tomorrow. I did a trial run with the perle first, just to see how it behaved and if I could work out the right tension for the weft. It has a lovely lustre and feels soft on the hands compared to the knitting cotton I used for the WAL. I wonder if I will feel the same about it in a few weeks time?
So whats everyone else up to?