Here is a sneak preview of the forest green belt that I am working on now. I took the opportunity to try some new variations of my leaf designs.
Year: 2023 (Page 2 of 2)
The belt I talked about in my last blog post is finally finished. I am happy with how the gradient turned out and I had quite some comments on the “fire” aspect. I like how the fire is flanked by “water” from the blue border.
I have also been drawing quite a few alternative designs lately. I could not weave them all, but at least some of them. I will add the weaving diagrams asap here on my page for 24 card designs.
Now to the pictures:
I have been playing with colour gradients more and more in my weaving projects and I wanted to add a post on the material I use to achieve them.
I recently posted on a belt I am currently weaving, where I use 6 shades of yellow/orange. I don’t like making any publicity, but I still want to mention that I get them from Weavers bazaar in the UK.
Here are the threads and the belt, side by side. I used red and brown as motif/design colour to add contrast. Threading below.
The belt below is also using a blue colour gradient. The photo of the treads are in a different light (or overexposed), but it is the ones I used to get this effect.
I started this weave last week and I do like the colors. A sneak preview below…
I will add more photos as I progress.
Today I finished off 2 things:
1) a small backpack made from scrap fabric and an old tablet woven belt (one of my first). I quite like it!!
2) then I tried to save my 54 cards weaving project by cutting out the brown tread (making it a 3 hole weave). But it still looks strange and not very nice. So after this piece I decided to cut it down and discard the rest of the weave. Well here it is:
I made this Viking style bag. It the outside is blue wool and the inside red/purple linen. I used an old belt I have woven for the strap and a piece for decoration. I used some wood from my garden for the bag handles. I like how it turned out.
And then I have experimented with a wider than usual weaving. However it did not turn out well. The first part is below.
It makes me think of when I was a kid and old 3D movies showed on TV. I didn’t have the red and green glasses, so the films looked a bit like the weave below…
I finally finished this piece. I was happy to try a lot of new designs, but I am not happy with the result. It is too crowded, I have a hard time to leave enough space between designs. I will try to do better next time. Anyway, some pictures below.
