Hi, its me Abelene.
The Inescapable Spring is upon us, and breaking through the rain clouds are streaming in colors of the most vibrantly rich tones imaginable, the colors of apricots ripening on the tree, the gold sun kissed fruits soon to ripen to perfection before being plucked and bitten into. Señor Mirando and I think the Inescapable Spring weaving is definitely speaking of apricots. March has come in like a lion, and with cool breezy days full of beautiful weather still blowing through, Jen says she is going to warp another in the alpaca scarf series, because the mood is still on!
Abelene & The Crew
♣ Weaving Notes ♣
Note from Jen: What I love most about this piece is that the colors melt into each other, with low contrast on the grey scale. I want to repeat this , the colors really surprised me in the end, I thought it was going to be too much color, but it all gets toned down in the intersection of the colors. This time I was careful to set the loom up correctly for direct warping, and it was easy, and it was the perfect length. The second alpaca lace-weight I have woven on the 16″ rigid heddle loom, and I just love the balanced plain weave, the sett, the drape, and the light buoyancy to the fabric, I still absolutely am loving weaving this series.
- Yarn: Knit Picks Alpaca Cloud lace weight, in Zadie (deep gold), Bernice (warm pink to apricot), and Amos (moss green), 440 y = 50g
- Loom: Ashford 16″ rigid heddle loom
- Warping method: Easy direct warp method for rigid heddle, 1 end in hole and 1 end in slot.
- Number of warp ends: 240
- Reed: 15 dent rigid heddle reed.
- Width in reed: 15.5″
- Selvedges: I did not add extra ends to the selvedges, but did use a temple.
- Sett after finishing: Warp 16 epi, and weft 16 ppi.
- Color Pattern Warp: [40 ends Zadie, 40 ends Bernice, 40 ends Amos] x 2
- Pattern Weft: [2.5″ Zadie, 2.5″ Bernice, 2.5″ Amos] repeated length in sequence.
- Finished: 3″ hand-twisted fringe, then washed and air-dried hanging, and lightly steam pressed. Measures 76″ long (not including 3″ fringe) and 15″ wide, and weighs 121g.
- Yardage: Total yardage used for finished piece = 1065y, figured from weight of finished piece and not including loom waste.
I swear, my darling friend, your special genius with color never fails to amaze me. Your eye is just SO spot on. Then the years of practice that your hands and eyes have devoted to building your weaving and knitting skills……(not to mention the dozens of other skills!) is manifesting such beautiful work. I love the tiny knots on the twisted fringe. They’re like little colored pearls. Thank you for this bright and sunny spot in my day.
Thank you so much Sorcha! I love this particular one too, after I realized the colors toned down from the intersections. I know you showed me your favorite plaids, but if you don’t mind I would love to make you one similarly, with three or four colors, and let the palette broaden from the overlap, it is utterly fascinating to see the colors melt and blend. If you were to choose colors, knowing certain ones (complimentary , or split complimentary) tone down the interplay, which would they be? You made my day!!! xx
Really? Oooo, I’ll have to think on that very seriously. I’ll come up with some ideas but you’ll have to tell me what you think.
In my opinion what makes this colorway so soft and easy is the low contrast on the grey scale. So, if you like that, perhaps the moss green, the gold and a medium grey? Or if you want dark, a dark green, rust brown (like on the other scarf I wove) and dark grey?
That dark raspberry is so beautiful. You know me and charcoal grey though…….we will have to have a long chat about color over cups of brown fluid. LOL
I meant the browner “rust” in the photos. Anyway, I’m warping up another alpaca scarf in the colors of my silk ajrakh scarf I got from Maiwa with the rust, gold, beige and maybe the medium brown. This is the photo
So lovely!! I wish I could just be a fly on the wall in your loom room for a day!
I finished a plaid tweed cotton scarf that was inspired by Oklahoma sunrise colors. It was so fun! Now doing my first lace wool project. 🙂
Hi Sarah! I want to see the Oklahoma Sunrise scarf! Do you have a link?
I was wondering if I could send you a photo via email! But my sister has an instagram account for our shop and she posted a reel with some of my work @theartistryok 😀
Sarah, I looked on your sisters IG and found your scarf, it is amazing, you got the colors spot on! Grandma’s old loom, lucky you! (( I will email you my email)) 🙂