Handpainted cotton Lilacs shawl

I've recently started doing some dyeing, specifically handpainting warps I've measured out.  Prior to this shawl, I'd previously only dyed warp for scarves - cotton, silk, and rayon.  I wanted to try a shawl, painting purposefully to get some overlap and some differentiation between the 7 bouts I'd measured in advance.  I'm quite pleased with this for my first attempt at this process.

I opted for a simple extended point twill, wanting the colors to be the stars, not a complex twill design.  I switched direction of the twill at each section of the warp.

I think the wound warp, ready to batch, looks like a caterpillar.

You can get more details in my blog post on this.