This is the warp for the Janet Phllips workshop coming up in September.
On the loom, threaded correctly (I hope) and with a header woven. So I'm ready to go!
The yarn is 2/6 cotton and there are four colours; dark blue, light blue, light green and gold. The light blue was purchased from Oliver Twists at the Festival of Quilts earlier this month. Jean Oliver dyes all the threads and fibre they sell and their stall is always a riot of colour. They specialise in threads for embroidery, but also have lots of other yarns and fibres which can be used for felting, spinning or weaving. Sadly they don't have a website but they do go to all the major shows.
The dark blue, green and gold I dyed myself with procion dyes. The colours turned out quite well, but not exactly as I intended. The green was supposed to be a dark green, but is a lot paler than I wanted. The gold was supposed to be a rusty brown, but somewhere along the way my mix took a different turn. Still the colours will be fine for what is after all only an experimental piece.
It's been sometime since I did any weaving and now we are settled(ish) in our new home, I'm hoping to do a lot more. The Cornwall guild has a lively weaving membership and hold four weaving days a year in addition to their usual monthly meetings. Having Janet Phillips visit to give us a talk about her work and a two day workshop is really good and will give me an opportunity to talk to her about her weaving diploma course which I'm thinking of doing.
But for now, the sun is shining and this is calling!
We are so lucky to have this lovely beach less than a mile from home so later today we will be dipping our toes in the waves!
