Best Laid Plans
gang aft agley.
(favorite Robert Burns quote of my mother's. She is now long gone, but not forgotten, this Mother's Day weekend.Happy Mother's Day, Mom)
The latest Grand Plan started with this:
Full shelves, mostly 5/2 cotton yarn I do not use much anymore, and an idea to clear space: pull out bunches of cones of similar colors, and weave Big Things. 1st up? a cotton blanket:
It is to be three panels, the first two here on the loom:
Weaving with some unknown unlabeled cotton, but red! the perfect weft:
In the midst of weaving this, it occurred to me that I could use a few baby gifts, the first for a new boy (not in my family, but close friends!) so I did not weave the center blanket panel but instead ran another warp and wove the baby a new cotton blanket:
Two smaller panels, to be sewn up the center. Now done, washed and sewn:
and I am back to the center panel of the larger blanket, which is ready to weave: threaded and beamed:
This will be for our guest bed, a nice cover/lightweight summer blanket, and is simple and quick to weave: 5/2 cotton yarns, sett at 20, woven with heavier cotton weft (plain 2 ply in the bigger blanket, a cotton flake in the baby blanket). The binding is cotton fabric, rather than satin blanket binding, for these first two.
First two? Yes. The best laid plan was to use up some cones of yarn. These two used a total of 3 (!) partial cones....the shelves are still quite full. So I see more blankets in my future, and tablecloths and napkins and towels... I have 5/2 and 8/2 and 10/2 galore, time and a loom. Bounty!
More bounty? Breakfast of eggs and honey biscuits! made with grandpa Kurt's homegrown honey:
Hmmm. Perhaps a big PINK! blanket should be next up :)!
(favorite Robert Burns quote of my mother's. She is now long gone, but not forgotten, this Mother's Day weekend.Happy Mother's Day, Mom)
The latest Grand Plan started with this:
Full shelves, mostly 5/2 cotton yarn I do not use much anymore, and an idea to clear space: pull out bunches of cones of similar colors, and weave Big Things. 1st up? a cotton blanket:
It is to be three panels, the first two here on the loom:
Weaving with some unknown unlabeled cotton, but red! the perfect weft:
In the midst of weaving this, it occurred to me that I could use a few baby gifts, the first for a new boy (not in my family, but close friends!) so I did not weave the center blanket panel but instead ran another warp and wove the baby a new cotton blanket:
Two smaller panels, to be sewn up the center. Now done, washed and sewn:
and I am back to the center panel of the larger blanket, which is ready to weave: threaded and beamed:
This will be for our guest bed, a nice cover/lightweight summer blanket, and is simple and quick to weave: 5/2 cotton yarns, sett at 20, woven with heavier cotton weft (plain 2 ply in the bigger blanket, a cotton flake in the baby blanket). The binding is cotton fabric, rather than satin blanket binding, for these first two.
First two? Yes. The best laid plan was to use up some cones of yarn. These two used a total of 3 (!) partial cones....the shelves are still quite full. So I see more blankets in my future, and tablecloths and napkins and towels... I have 5/2 and 8/2 and 10/2 galore, time and a loom. Bounty!
More bounty? Breakfast of eggs and honey biscuits! made with grandpa Kurt's homegrown honey:
Hmmm. Perhaps a big PINK! blanket should be next up :)!
posted by Sara at 2:03 PM
5 Comments:
I am so jealous when I see other weavers full stashes. One of these days! The blankets look great, of course.
It's appalling how little yarn gets used up even in big projects. I suppose that's why we all look forward to dead weaver stash sales, vultures that we are! Those blankets are lovely, and that little charmer is definitely no longer a baby.
Love those blankets, esp. The red one.
You granddaughter resembles you so much! Do other people see that too?
I've been doing blankets for college-bound kids. And then their friends, to keep them from borrowing the original blankets. My stash is smaller than yours, so now I don't feel so bad. :-)
Lovely . However I could have helped you out by relieving you of some of that yarn. Could have saved you some time and increased your cash flow. Nice job.
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