Labour Intensive!!!

Labour Intensive is the only way that I can describe today!

This morning I finished a sample that I started before the weekend, however with 4 colour changes in approximatly every 5cm it took a while.  It is however finally complete :)

After completing it I started on my next sample, but decided to add some extra threads into the warp to add a bit more colour to it!  As you can imagine this also took a while however I am very happy with the result and will post a picture of the sample once its complete :)



Knitted tapes update

As I have shown previously I am creating a range of tapes to go alongside my woven fabrics and after a recent trip to Ikea I found this crochet hanger which I may end up using to display them, (obviously for my final show they will be arranged a lot more neatly!!)

The start of my final warp

My final warp is now on the loom after 3 days of planning, warping and threading.  This is my widest to date at 60cm and hopefully I will be getting 6 - 7 samples from it.  

Above: My planning nightmare ...

Above: the face and reverse of sample one

Above : Sample 2 (the back is the same)

Above : face and reverse of sample 3, as you can probably guess, this is still a work in progress.

I have chosen to do a double warp threading on a point similar to my last warp, but have this time thread the point over more shafts to allow larger shapes to be created.  This will hopefully mean that collectively samples done on different warps will still compliment each other :)