Meanderings of a Mermaid

 Yes folks, I am still kicking, but just have not felt like posting to this blog. In total I have shrunk down the time I am spending on the internet. It's funny how having a dog will change your life, especially a young dog. Bo came to us from the City Pound and from a Shelter, and so he has needed extra attention. He is settling in to a lovely adult dog.  A good daily goal is to get this fellow tuckered out by the end of the afternoon. It is no easy feat.  Rather than deal with trying to get images from one device into another, and to post here, let's skip several months and just pick up with the current times.  This rug I wove two winters ago when I was here in Texas. If you look close you can see an angular wave pattern. The charted design is from the book Alterknits. Sorry I don't have the book with me here, so I can't be more specific. Skylines?? When I wove it I noticed a small error in my weaving of the graphic. I thought I would be able to repair it easily by...

 This is the second small rug piece I wove on my new-to-me Harrisville rug loom. It measures 15 by 28 inches and uses a variety of materials. The warp was linen and the light grey weft is cotton. The four other colours are churro wool. I believe I will use this as a table topper, like an oversize hotpad or even on a coffeetable.  And here is the third piece completed. I had wanted to use this as a rug, but because I was trying to cram a lot of weaving in a short warp, I could not use normal binding off techniques. So I do not think the edges would have held up to heavy traffic. It graces my office wall right now. It is 26.25 X 33 inches. Both of these rugs utilize shaft switching techniques and equipment.

Here are the first three little rugs that have come off the Harrisville Rug Loom. The very first one I wove is the furthest back. For all three I devised the pattern charts and chose I great variety of old stash yarns.  In the picture above you see the side of the rugs that I saw as I was weaving.  In this second photo you are seeing the reverse side of the rugs. The exact opposite color is found on the back. This is the side that was underneath as I was weaving. This is an interesting fact about the technique I am using; that both sides are equally usable.  In the third photo you can see both sides of the second rug I made. It is quite modern compared to the two others.  The fourth rug is an expanded pattern based on the first one. It was really fun to weave. And what a good stash buster project! For the orange weft yarn I held three different yarns together. And for the black weft, I also held three yarns together. The three p...