Ta Da!

The “winter project” is really hardly late at all, given how it looks outside.

To recap.

The warp was yarn purchased at the Sheep & Wool Fair in the fall, and dyed by me in blue & green using Greener Shades.

The weft is handspun, obviously spun by me, 100% home-processed mohair, and also dyed by me. Part of it is the same blue & green as the warp, and part is a rusty color inspired by the “red dog” baby bison we saw in Yellowstone last year. The green was inspired by the sagebrush and the blue was inspired by the sky.

It was woven on my little toy rigid heddle loom in my favorite pattern – I’ve used this pattern a lot. I like it because, viewed at the right angle, what you see is slightly 3-D diamonds formed by the warp threads. Not the angle captured here.

When I saw how very subtle the blue and green were together, at first I was unhappy. “Why did I even waste my time making these stripes nobody is going to notice?” But turns out they are just noticeable enough.