The Scenic Valley Handweavers Guild set a challenge at the beginning of the year to weave a 'bag' out of various yarns that were supplied to everyone joining the challenge. There was a large amount of a gray polyester and varying amounts down to a few feet (of hand spun merino). In all about 10 different yarns. The bag can be any kind and the idea is to incorporate some of every yarn into the design.
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| All but one of the challenge yarns. |
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Having lots of gray and a fair amount of a pink color and both being similar in size I used both in the warp - winding two irregular stripes of the pink (and using it all up) as I went.
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| Wound warp. |
I'm making a bag for my tablet. It will have a folding flap and I'll have to sew in a lining and stiffener if it is to work at all. Given the size of the tablet there will not be too much weaving - in fact it is pretty close to the loom waste, but as there was a ton of the gray that won't be a problem. The weft will be all gray with inset 'boxes' of the various colors - some as they are, others twisted together or doubled to balance the size. The boxes will form a diagonal line across the back and part of the front. The flap will have a couple of shots of supplementary weft using the hand spun merino which is highly textured.
Dressing the loom (Pete) has been pretty fast given the small amount of warp, but I do need to address a slipping friction brake before I start to weave.
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| Warp on the loom. |
The project is due in 3 weeks. The weaving won't take long - hopefully that will be the case with the sewing and fastener!
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