A fiber friend saw this woven in black & gold and photographed the shawl to send to me. I found the draft on www.handweaving.net (Draft #61152) and figured that I would replicate it for her someday. In the meantime, I showed the draft to my sister-in-law (another weaver) and she ooh'd and ahh'd imagining it done in black & white. I happen to have a goodly amount of black & white Rayon Crinkle from R&M Yarns (www.rmyarns.com) in Georgetown, TN so I'll weave up this test piece and if I like it, then I'll purchase the gold, as well! I actually was prompted to begin this project after a 2 month weaving famine as my studio needed to be used as a storage room for a while. I jumped back in to work on a guild challenge that went every which way of wrong. Each of the fibers that I selected, while very beautiful, we're not appropriate for the task at hand. So, while I baled on the challenge...it served it's purpose to teach me something. I will find a project that the challenge fiber would be appropriate for...but not today. Today I need ease & beauty & success.
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