Endings make room for beginnings

End of 12 yard warp.  Lots of hand spun wool, spun on the drop spindle... I fall in love with every piece it seems.  

Sold the one that came before this one. Before I took a picture.  It was like the sun rising in a see of black,  a wild bit of color......no matter how fixed my idea may seem when I start weaving the piece always surprises me.  This surprise came in grey.

The scary parts often become the best parts

 I want them all to fly out into the world to far flung places and I want to wrap myself in it all! 

And the moon rose and cast a shadow and then the moon began to set...and it's the scary yellow that brings an extra breath of life and a good kind of vibrancy to the whole long thang.

This was just a nice moment.

The colors are not true in the picture... But it's ok , the way it all comes together is true but perhaps with alittle less contrast. The scary yellow lent itself to a vibrant turquoise.

Note- there are no pictures of the long tangled days of warping...sometimes that part is best left behind. A weekend not to be immortalized.

Technicolor nightmare

Lemon yellow nightmare. Fix? More indigo!  Green is better than a garish yellow.

                 

                 

Black and blue

105 indigo, 7"

165 black, 11"

60 black, 4"

What's for dinner

I called this pretty!

I am hoping it's organized chaos.

Orange and turquoise are a natural color combo, right?

A detail.  In odd light.and...

A garment...

Mostly woven outside, on the copper loom.  Woven away from home, time otherwise spent waiting.... A section was woven by very young ones. Anything bold and daring was in thanks to them...they had the guts to do what I had been thinking about. Because everyone thinks turquoise and orange are a natural combination right? It always seems to be the urges that are a little edgy end up making the most interesting cloth.

A weavers initiation...unraveling

It all came off so gorgeous and I didn't even take a photo before I cut it up...beside this one...

And now I am unraveling 4 inches....in several places...

Breathing in, breathing out....making fringe...

Oops

It was exciting

I loved the black and blue at the end...

But it turned pink!

It was exciting before the homaginization that occurred with trying to set the dye.

Every artist must have some unexpected outcomes. It's just more fun when the unexpected is better than my imaginings.

All the stark blue I had come to love is now pink! And the yellow is pink! The white is pink! The strange swaths of red are lost in a sea of plain pink!  

Painted!

I may not be able to turn back

Warp painting, I hope it dosnt bleed all into pink when I wash it.  I am a bit scared and excited.  And the Easter moment just before this, well.... I am moving on and I prefer the risk of future uncertainty to the risk of Easter egg weaving.

And then there is the issue of tastefulness. It's so tasteful.  And it's on the new loom. A bit funny to have two projects going at once. 

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How sexy...

A bit of time because of messy warp chains and improvisational warping on the warping board... 

Note- if you make two warp chains take note of the path on the warping board before takingthe first chain off of the board.

But ahhh, it is so nice to wind onto this loom.

Slowly

Is it a scary mess or progress?

It is the copper loom

It is a warp 

It's about 20 inches

It's getting late

Rainy day progress

This may be a bit out of order now...so much of the learning has been about the order of operations...this is staring to sound like math class...yikes!

Still needs one hole 1/8" moved over, a few nuts and bolts and pedals...so close!

It's all so last year. Or at least how it ended...

A tumble of color and pattern it was supposed to be three things but it became two.

And then the loom was done but I didn't get to weave on it...

The two that became one...

And some of the hand spun...I am feeling a nudge into red...

More red...

And then what will come next?