The Runner is Finished: Next Project!

The silk dresser scarf/table runner is completed.  I finished weaving it the other day, and took it with me on a brief trip to Drytown (!), CA this weekend and worked on it in our motel room.  I darned in ends, basted a fine silk thread at each end to prevent raveling, wet-finished it, and pressed it. 

 

Of course, I could not help but weave a couple of samples near the end of the warp, as I always like to: more gold thread, more pretend gold thread, etc.  The gold thread samples came out sumptous, of course.  Particularly nice was the interaction between the gold thread and the bright green moegi color, which I hadn't expected.  And of course it looked royally beautiful with the madder red silk.

 

 

 

Over the weekend a friend asked me if she could commission something small for her upcoming wedding this autumn; of course I said yes - to be asked to provide beauty for such a wonderful occasion is always a privilege and a pleasure.  She has asked for 'something small, something that can be hidden in or attached to my bouquet-'.  I'm thinking a tiny reticule purse, or some such, or even a fine silk ribbon.  Perhaps...white silk shot with silver thread, or gold!

Of course, now that the most recent project is completed, I am feeling happily impelled towards the next project.  Next will be the attempt at making nice silk satin, and after that, Noemi's scarf.