It is the skein that I dyed the injection way.

I made the warp in 2 parts and found that the first part was more red and the next one more towards the blue. Now that it is on the loom this is visible.


Not having used silk for a long time, it takes getting used to again after weaving with cotton or cottolin.
But I had to put the warping on hold as we had the family over today for DH's birthday tomorrow, so I made a cake last night. It is one of my favorites by Rachel Allen from her book Rachel's Food for Living: Chocolate Amaretti Cake

I'm hoping that I'll get on with the warping quickly so that I can start weaving very shortly. I had a long think about what I wanted to weave. One skeins is about 950 meters long and I decided I want to weave some cloth to make a sleeveless vest from it. I've used a network drafting from Thrilling Twills, a new to me drafting but I think it will work just the way I want for this skein. I'm still contemplating between these 2 different ways:


Another thing is to sample with weft yarn but I do not want to loose to much warp yarn doing this. I'm thinking of using linen yarn for weft, I have just the right colour I think. But I will sample to find out what works best.
More when I have started my sampling.
That's a pretty warp. I look forward to seeing how the weaving goes.
ReplyDeleteI'm not looking closely at the chocolate cake picture - it looks far too tasty!! Perfect as a special birthday cake.
That cake looks fantastic!! (I know... I'm a weaver... I should be excited about the yarn and warp too! My passion for chocolate seemingly knows no bounds!)
ReplyDeleteGlad you're jumping right into using the yarn you recently dyed. I'll be interested to see how it weaves up. I haven't done any networked drafts yet so hopefully I can learn a little bit from your experience.
Sue