"Ocean-Born Mary" scarf warp about to get beamed!

 

 

I spent a good portion of Saturday winding off the small 400-yard hanks, all different colors, onto all the kiwaku I could locate in the studio. 

 

Then I played with them in various lights for a couple of hours, and finally came up with this progression (which is based on hue, and not shade...you'll see dark and light shades next to each other).  I finally got them in this order and everything just 'clicked'. 

 

I have a feeling that this will all go very well with the advancing twill draft.  It's my first time ever doing an advancing twill!  And it's one I can still do with the mechanical dobby; eight harnesses and forty sheds per repeat.  Eventually I'd like to reattach the compu-dobby, and using all sixteen harnesses available, do much longer repeats than I can comfortably do on the mechanical dobby.

 



Yesterday I slothed out and watched a lot of Robin Williams movies which were on because of his recent passing, and later spent a great deal of time in the kitchen roasting a chicken and preparing dinner, so I never got down to the studio to start winding warp on the Warping Wheel.  Tonight I'll begin.  After a workday I'm often less inclined to warp, but since Katsuura-san is coming sometime over the next month to meet me and see the studio, I'm keen to have this project up and running soon so she can have a go at using the AVL loom.