Showing posts with label weaving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weaving. Show all posts

Sunday, May 8, 2016

Weaving With Wool Roving- Part 3 of 3

Weaving with variegated and white wool roving...


                                    ...on warp threads of wool yarn in various colors.



                                                     The project as it grows...



                                                             ...and grows...



                                         ...and the finished weaving (side one)...



                                                            ...and side two.



                                      Because I fulled it in the washing machine...

                                               ...without adjusting it mid-wash...



                                         ...the finished piece is rather misshapen.



                                            It shouldn't matter too much, though...



                         ...since the three weavings will soon be stitched together...



                             ...to form a portion of a new cover for my compost bin!   



                                                   The different lines of color...



                                                         ...in this weaving...



                                  ...remind me of the striations in rock formations...








                                                  ...or the planet Jupiter...


                   

                                    ...in photos taken from the Hubble telescope! :)



                                    A 'compare and contrast' of the three weavings.


                           You can see how using the same technique and loom...



                                             ...but slightly different materials...



                                        ...results in quite drastically different looks!



Friday, May 6, 2016

Weaving With Wool Roving- Part 2 of 3

I used odd blobs and lengths of hard to felt roving...

...and strange bits of yarn...

...for this second 'stash busting' project.


                                       Fulling the piece in the washing machine...



                                             ...both narrows and lengthens it.



                             Remnants from my yarn stash performed 'as expected'...



                                 ...with the wool (or wool blend) yarn felting-in well...



                                  ...and the synthetic pieces remaining unchanged.




                                           Scraps of scruffy black alpaca roving...



                                ...create soft and fuzzy stripes in the finished work.



                                   With a bit less regularity and more 'inclusions'...



                                 ...this is a much more textural piece than the first.



                        Next time: the most striated, geode-like weaving of them all!

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Weaving With Wool Roving- Part 1 of 3

For this project...

...I used white wool yarn as my weft...


                                 ...and variegated and white wool roving as my warp.


  
                                         I removed every other peg in the loom...



                                     ...to accommodate the thickness of the roving.



                                     Removing the finished project from the loom...



                                            ...and knotting off the fringed ends.



                                    After fulling the project in my washing machine..



                         ...(along with a couple of bath towels for additional friction)...



                                              ...the project narrowed quite a bit...



                                               ...and thickened a great deal.



                                   Because I loosened the weaving before fulling...



                         ...the weft threads are slightly visible in the finished piece.



                                                      The completed weaving.




                                            Next time: another fulled weaving...

                            ...made from 'blobs' of tatty roving and yarn remnants.