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.
Month: March 2023
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.
