... and even further on

I have a website, finally--
you can find me at

http://www.ingamariecarmel.com

Moving on

Well it looks like I don't post here very much does it.  I've moved on. You can find most of what I'm weaving on Weavolution these days. Look for me here:

My Projects page on Weavolution.com

And maybe some day I'll be back here, who knows :)

Blue Handspun Scarf- wrap thing

So a little while back I got a rigid heddle loom. I thought it would be a fun thing, and maybe a good way to something with the handspun I tend to accumulate in 4 oz skeins.  The first project was so unspeakably ugly I won't show it, but here is number two.  The warp is a millspun turquoise rayon, alternating with a thin cotton- and that cotton is one thread teal one purple.  I spun the weft from a Lyocell roving from Carolina Homespun, in their 'Spirits of the Water' colorway.  It came out quite pretty I think. And it was fun besides.

La Luz is finished

 I just finished the blanket. Yay!

The long and winding web!

It's off the loom.. all 6 and a half yards of it. Ready to be fulled. This will be the outside of the blanket. Next I 'll warp up the yellow for the inside.

Almost there

One last picture of the web on the loom. I'm almost done.

Yarn porn

Don't you just love LOOKING at yarn :)

Overload

Poor little loom. I'm not sure it's built to take this much fabric, but it's holding up OK.  And I had to zip tie the reed to the beater, since I don' t have a reed this size for this loom. 

He didn't try to sell me insurance, though

Got up the other morning to find this guy on my little loom.

Turning Limestone into Wool

Off and running, here are some progress pictures. I like how the handspun is behaving, it gets thicker and thinner and makes for a more interesting texture... and wondering if I'll weave past certain places before it breaks keeps my mind occupied! It's sooo different weaving in the wool from the linen, kind of fun getting to know a different fiber.

Sample, fulled

The sample, fulled. I like how it came out and now I'm ready to tie back on an weave all 6-1/2 yards of this. The yarn is mostly 'Tuna' from Borgs, but with a bit of stash yarn and some handspun thrown in.  Sett is 12 epi.

Overkill

I've put the big trapeze from the Glimakra on this tiny old LeClerc, it's a bit ridiculous looking, not to mention tippy, but it worked. The warp went on beautifully. 

Warp Chains

I'm going to make this blanket in panels, so I can fit it on the little loom (that I've had for over 30 years) since the big one still has the linen.  The outside panels will be the 'limestone' and the center the 'light'.  It's interesting, after spending most of my life working with limestone to be trying to interpret it in wool. It's like the two big creative forces in my life converging.

Thinking

I'm ruminating on the blanket.. here are some of the yarns, and a palette starting to develop.

Guild Design Challenge

Another Guild project this fall is a design challenge. We're using some photos my brother took, as inspirational jumping off points. I'm still, um, ensnared by all my white linen, so I wove a small piece based on La Luz. Hopefully a blanket will also materialize.

Remember all that white linen?

I put up 10 yards of half-bleached 8/1 linen this summer, and am slowly weaving my way through it. I've pulled the first 3 towels off. These are very rustic towels, sort of pleasantly coarse and scratchy. The blue weft is a singles linen I've had in my stash since the early 80's and a big reason why I put the warp up. I wove 2 towels with it about 20 years ago, and had yarn left over. They're really sauna towels, but I like them as hand towels.

Guild Color Study-- The Black and White Warp

Here is the second of the Guild color studies- this one is a warp that is half white and half black. I"m using mostly cottolin for the weft, and some natural linen. I ended up taking out the lime green, it just didn't work, but the close-up is nice :) There is also a shades of grey warp, and a poly-chrome crackle-weave warp coming. I'll post those as they get here.

Guild Color Study-- The Rainbow Warp

One of the things keeping me busy this fall was our the WSSA guild color group-- we warped several looms, I've lost track of how many. The first warp to come my way was a rainbow colored one

Monk's Belt

After experimenting a bit with various pattern wefts, this is what I decided on. The warp is a 12/1 unbleached linen, as is the background weft. The pattern weft is a wool singles from 'Färgkraft" with little accents in blue wool.

Finally Sätergläntan

I went back to Sätergläntan in Sweden this year. I did a sort of independent study of Monk's Belt, and explored weaving with straw. It was great fun.