The Scenic Valley Handspinner challenge for October is another (in the series) mug rug/coaster. This time it is to use complementary (from the color wheel) colors and weave with tabby and twill.
This morning I dragged out my large box of odds and ends of wool. Most of it a legacy from my Father's weaving days when he would buy the leftover 'ends of line' balls of wool from my Mother's wool shop. I felt reasonably sure there would be something appropriate and was not disappointed. I had to wind skeins to measure the lengths of the yarn I found and it turned out to be 240 yards of both blue and organge.
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| The chosen yarns (colors didn't reproduce well) |
The challenge calls for mixing tabby and twill which, of course, could be simple stripes. I thought I would try something a little more complicated and put boxes of twill inside tabby surrounds. Here's the computer simulation:
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| WeaveDesign simulation |
The mix of twill and tabby will be interesting to see in the completed coaster, with the epi/ppi figures somewhere between a perfect twill and a perfect tabby. More photo's as I warp and then dress the loom.
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