Warped

Harvest and I have a balanced relationship.  I spin and knit; she weaves and crochets.  Both of us sew by hand and machine, and both of us do embroidery.  Between the two of us, we have most fiber-related activities covered.  Harvest started weaving a little over a year ago, and she has a natural eye for fiber design, texture, and color. She has several looms, including a rigid heddle loom, three band looms, and a Kessenich 4-harness floor loom.  She's been taking private lessons with a friend and will be going to weaving school in August.  I can't wait to see what she comes back with.

Harvest is also a serious golfer, and her favorite color combination, since finding her most recent golf bag, is a vivid - some might say lurid - shade of iridescent lime green accented with black.  She is also fond of houndstooth checks.  Very, very vintage.

In preparation for a competition this weekend, she decided on the spur of the moment to weave a new golf towel for herself on her rigid heddle loom, a Kromski "Harp."

Harvest is what I call a "warp speed warper, " and unlike some weavers, that's her favorite part of the weaving process.  She likes the math and the measurements and the creation of the design.

For the golf towel, she used a sport weight cotton yarn, and the warping took maybe an hour in total yesterday morning.  That afternoon, she mounted her loom on its stand and started weaving, supervised by Bear and JujuB.

She wove off the ends last night, twisted the fringe this morning, and hey, presto!  New golf towel, complete with a braided loop to hang it on her golf bag.   Here it is, drying on a hanger after being wet finished.  Total time start to finish: about three hours.  Not bad.  Not bad at all, though it is really green.

And in case you might be wondering about her "unusual" yarn bowl in the first photo, yes, it is, indeed, a Victorian chamberpot.  We bought it at an auction because I loved it, but we couldn't find a use for it, other than the obvious, so it sat under the china cabinet for ages.  Harvest wanted to put it up for sale at the annual town yard sale, but I insisted on keeping it, and it has now found its purpose: holding balls of yarn during the warping process.  I think its a pretty good second life for a chamberpot.