New Garbage Day Project post & Weaving
It was a great day for The Garbage Day Project which means it wasn’t a very good day for recycling. Three photos are up on the webpage as well as a note from Susan from Alaska on recycling plastic pots. The Garbage Day Project will soon have its own blog as the posts are stacking up and archives would be more efficient.
Today’s bonus photos is of a weaving I just finished. I haven’t a clue about weaving (as you can tell by the shape of this piece), but I saw this children’s loom in a magazine and asked my Dad if he could make me one. He made three; this is the medium size one. The looms are works of art in themselves, but sometimes I’m in a mood to just play with color and texture. This weaving includes dyed fabric, dyed chenille, tulle, gold webbing, fly fishing threads, dyed cheesecloth, ribbon, and, of course, yarn. Here’s a detail:
August 2nd, 2007 at 6:20 am
Love the weaving, Virginia! Has a nice landscape feel to it, and the textures are marvelous. Dad did a great job making the loom, also. I might have to put Bill to work on making something similar for me.
August 5th, 2007 at 9:43 am
Your frame weaving shows a lot of potential! :-}
I would suggest that if you *want* to maintain an even width throughout, you lay the weft yarns in by bubbling it or laying it at an angle, then squeeze them down into place with a fork. Weft yarns need a surprising amount of length to do the “over/under” thing without drawing in the selvedges.
Of couse, you can say, it’s woven exactly the way you intended. I can accept that, too!
:Diane
August 6th, 2007 at 5:35 am
Karen - Thank you and I will pass along your compliment to my Dad. He can build or fix anything - wood or metal.
Diane - I will try your bubbling technique (thank you!), but “of course” this is exactly the look I wanted
When I saw that I was in trouble with the width, I reversed ends and worked toward the middle. Not knowing the rules is so freeing.
Thank you for writing,
Virginia