I went back to Alice Schlein’s book and to Bonnie’s book, and tried some more things. I think I am starting to understand where I went “wrong” with the network drafting stuff. Whether I can explain it is another matter. First, here are two versions of the “network drafted” drafts. One is using networked treadling [...]
After thinking up all sorts of lovely possibilities (including an utterly crazy, but potentially fantasmagorical, idea involving echo weave), I think I’ve decided to try doing this shawl in network drafting on a 4×8 rosepath initial. I loved the little diamonds in one of Nancy Roberts’ machine-knitted-and-dyed woven scarves, and doing it in a complex [...]
I finally finished dyeing the skeins of silk today. I had originally intended only 24 skeins, but on taking them out of the dyebath, it was apparent that I needed to “fill in” a few transition colors. So I dyed five additional skeins; hopefully they’ll be enough. I forgot yesterday that Peg asked about the [...]
I visited Nancy Roberts last night to talk about machine knitted blanks to dye for weaving, and was blown away by the design possibilities! First, with machine knitted blanks, the multiple skeins in lots of different shades that I’ve been doing for my color transitions, aren’t really necessary. Using machine knitted blanks, you can get [...]
It has just dawned on me (rather belatedly) that I don’t have to do a single color transformation across the entire width of the shawl. Once I dye the 24 colors, I can put them in whatever sequence pleases me – a single gradual color transformation across the entire shawl, or a stripe of fuchsia-fading-to-blue-to-fuchsia [...]
