Fooling with pooling…

The pooling project came hot off the loom this morning and I’m happy. Very happy. The pooled colours have come up a treat and, while I can’t seem to take a pic that is colour accurate (!), it looks amazing.

Here is a photo journey from skein to scarf:

The skein which you have seen in a previous post…

Became a big ball of yarn…

The strands were then aligned in the warp so the colour bands appeared

The loom was dressed…

And some black weft used… please ignore the wobbly web (tension issues!)

It all led to this! A very nicely banded scarf with lovely spiky colour changes.

Aligning the colours did take a bit of time and, truth-be-told, more than one go. Though, once I’d figured out how to best handle the skein’s anti-pooling measures it was a doddle!

Some tension problems occurred; partly because I was tweaked the alignment as I tied-on and partly because the sticky yarn wanted to clump. I should probably have untied the whole thing and re-done it, but I – of course – wanted to get on with the weaving.

Still, I don’t think it’s harmed the scarf.

I enjoyed doing this so much that I’m already planning another one! Though there are a few other things I might do before then… hmm…

Too much inspiration

I’ve been in a reading mood recently and that’s included a bit of weaving reading. Over the past year it’s been obvious that reading about weaving is a dangerous pastime, because it induces an immediate desire to try every single technique.

So far I’ve been reasonably good at not letting the extreme excitement distract me from all the things I was already planning to try, but it’s hard. Weaving is an amazingly big and varied craft!

At least I know I’ll never get bored with it.