Sampling is a good thing. Sure, you have to go through the hassle and fuss of warping the loom (although I find that this gets easier and easier every time I do it), but even with some of the nice programs out there that help you draft a weaving pattern, there's still no substitute for actually seeing your ideas represented in the actual thread that you plan to bring them to life in.
This sample actually represents my efforts to look at 3 different color variations in more or less the same weave structure, waffle weave. However, by the time I got my loom warped and taken care of, I really only had time to adequately explore the first of them, which is represented on the right side of the sample -- the seven bands of solid colored warp sections. I repeated the same color pattern in the weft (i.e. bands of color in the same order as in the warp) to create the color squares that you see in the first 9 "rows" of squares. I had hoped that the sold squares would be more dominant and the diagonal bands of solid squares would be a prominent visual, but both to my eye and to the camera lens, those solid squares seem to fade into the background.
At my next class, I'm going to do more with the middle and left sections of the warp (which are either bordered by dark and go to light in the center (middle), or are bordered by light and go to dark in the center (left)). I know it's a bit fuzzy, but I really like the effect of the dark bordered squares. I'm looking forward to seeing a few variations as well as the inverse before making a decision about my pillow bolster cover.
P.S. I'm sorry to anyone who has been having problems with my comments lately. I had noticed some double commenting, but didn't realize that it was symptomatic of my blog software behaving strangely. At this point, I'm not completely sure how to fix it, but I do appreciate everyone who is persistent about it. If you do have a problem and have the time to drop me an email and let me know what browser you are using, I'd appreciate it -- given that there seems to be some involvement of javascript, I'm suspicious that it could be a browser version issue.
This sample actually represents my efforts to look at 3 different color variations in more or less the same weave structure, waffle weave. However, by the time I got my loom warped and taken care of, I really only had time to adequately explore the first of them, which is represented on the right side of the sample -- the seven bands of solid colored warp sections. I repeated the same color pattern in the weft (i.e. bands of color in the same order as in the warp) to create the color squares that you see in the first 9 "rows" of squares. I had hoped that the sold squares would be more dominant and the diagonal bands of solid squares would be a prominent visual, but both to my eye and to the camera lens, those solid squares seem to fade into the background.
At my next class, I'm going to do more with the middle and left sections of the warp (which are either bordered by dark and go to light in the center (middle), or are bordered by light and go to dark in the center (left)). I know it's a bit fuzzy, but I really like the effect of the dark bordered squares. I'm looking forward to seeing a few variations as well as the inverse before making a decision about my pillow bolster cover.
P.S. I'm sorry to anyone who has been having problems with my comments lately. I had noticed some double commenting, but didn't realize that it was symptomatic of my blog software behaving strangely. At this point, I'm not completely sure how to fix it, but I do appreciate everyone who is persistent about it. If you do have a problem and have the time to drop me an email and let me know what browser you are using, I'd appreciate it -- given that there seems to be some involvement of javascript, I'm suspicious that it could be a browser version issue.
The waffle weave sample is really nice looking. I like the section that is the light going to darker in the center, but even there it seems to work best with the white weft. So interesting how all the colors interact!
My loom is waiting for me to finish unpacking the craft room before it can come off the shelf, so it is wonderful to see weaving going on!
Nice colors.
(Ff 3.0.11)