Waaaaay back in June, Irene took this photo of me weaving on my blanket at Place des Arts and I just got a copy of the photo today. Stilettos and floor looms… I can’t imagine it any other way 
OMFG, it’s sunny. I may actually decide to leave the house today. I love living in Vancouver, but the winters here are so utterly depressing and grey. But this morning, it’s gloriously sunny and snowy with a big clear blue sky. In this situation, the only thing to do is to seize the opportunity and take some photos.
Besides, I’ve been invited to give a talk in March to one of the local spinners and weavers guilds about taking good fibre photos and I thought I should practice… so I at least appear to know what I’m talking about
Last January, I started Michelle’s Great Big Green Blanket project. This January, I’m starting my own blanket project. I fell in love with the Boheme colourway — all saturated magentas, chocolate browns and teddy bear browns — and decided that I want a blanket like this to put in the living room, against our dark, dark chocolate brown leather couch. Little does the DH know that I’m going to re-decorate our living room to include copious amounts of fuschia…
Anyhow, the warp yarn is dyed here in four colours and will be wound soon. A mix of mohair and wool, it will still be springy like Michelle’s blanket but maybe a little more drapey too. The weft will be a dark, saturated wine colour in brushed mohair (980 ypp). With this project, I am going to try warping from front to back… designing in the reed as I go. I don’t like having to design on the warping board because it’s so sequential and linear. Designing in the reed seems a bit more flexible at this point.
And that brushed mohair weft… anyone ever use an end-feed shuttle for brushed mohair? Hmmm… nightmare in the making?
Driven by an obsessive, passionate and often tumultuous relationship with colour, Felicia Lo is the owner of SweetGeorgia Yarns, a handpainted yarn and design company based in Vancouver. Founded in 2005, SweetGeorgia Yarns is about intense, relentless and unapologetic colour in luxurious natural fibres and textiles. She writes about all things knitting, spinning, dyeing, and weaving here at sweetgeorgia.
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