Twisp of Fate

I’m heading into the home stretch, trying to build up some inventory for our annual guild sale next weekend.  I finished up six more shawls this week.  These are woven with handpainted boucle yarns from New Zealand for the warps, and none of them will be repeatable because the dyer sold her business and these colors have now been discontinued.  For the weft, I used various colors of wool or alpaca yarn, except the accent stripes are done with fine kid mohair/silk yarns.

Blue/mauve boucle with pale lavender Shetland wool

Blue/mauve boucle with mauve wool weft

Deep blues with black alpaca weft

Deep blues with rich brown alpaca weft

"Lollipop" boucle with dark teal wool weft

"Lollipop" boucle with black alpaca weft

As you can probably tell, I am getting two shawls from each warp put on the loom, but am mixing it up a little (and making it more interesting for me) by using different colors or fibers in the weft.  I’m also experimenting with making some shawl pins, since I like to wear these pinned shut at the front, leaving my arms free – sort of like wearing a vest.