Done.
During a quick visit with Irene last week, I picked up a big ol’ ski shuttle from her and finished off my Boheme Blanket. Just a couple hours of uninterrupted weaving time allowed me to complete the yardage, hemstitch the ends, full and brush the whole blanket. Similar to Michelle’s GBGB, this blanket measured 41.5″ x 84″ before fulling and 36.5″ x 69″ after fulling in the washer.
There was a bunch of warp ends that didn’t make it into this particular blanket and so I’ve tied them onto the loom already, randomly spacing them out. I’ve dyed more Briggs & Little wool in dark brown which will fill in the gaps. I like to think of this next blanket as the sister blanket to the Boheme Blanket. It’ll be brown overall with the mohair and warp in dark brown… the leftover warp from the Boheme blanket will lend a couple flashes of fuschia in the midst of all that brown… Kind of like when you take a chunk of bread dough and save it to incorporate with the next bread baking session. The subsequent loaves have more depth, more flavour, more maturity… Taking a chunk of one warp and distributing it into the next blanket might be a little haphazard, but I like to think of it as growth and learning as subsequent projects unfold.
Tags: blanket, boheme, briggs & little, fulling
I wanna make a sweater... pouts
What gorgeous colors! So very lovely.
I love your new project, it’s fabulous! Yes, I think you’ve learn so much with weaving already. So nice to hear from you.
Very Beautiful! I love the Colour.
Aren’t ski shuttles wonderful? The more I use mine, the better I like it. The blanket is lovely. It fulled beautifully and I love the color.
Beautiful! I love the warmth of the color! I cannot wait to see the next blanket.
Glad to see you back with a FO! Beautiful colours you have mixed in in this blanket.
The brown blanket to be sounds excellent. I love the way fulling changes the whole character - you have another beauty here:)
Good to see you back for a bit.
Such a lovely color!
delicious colour. love that blanket.
Wow, I love the color, its beautiful!