Twisp of Fate

I have been working in fits and starts on our guild’s 2010 challenge project, which is to “do something” with some old crochet cotton that our leader, Kay, had in abundance.  The project had to be done at least partially with this yarn, and dyeing was OK.  The original colors were… well, an unlovely shade of brown (in my family, we would call it “camel path brown”), and a bright emerald green.  Yech.

Last summer I over-dyed mine with indigo.  This made the brown into a nice light denim blue, and darkened the emerald green to a teal color.

I had the idea to make a curtain for the bathroom at our guild meeting/weaving room.  Kay met with me in October and got me started on planning a Bronson lace project.  But that’s as far as it got, life has intervened, and now we are supposed to be done and ready to share our results in a week (April 8).  Oh, and I am using my new loom, Mother Mary’s loom, which is currently living at the guild room.  This is the first project I am doing on that loom, hence the “maiden voyage”.

So I got the warp on, alternating colors every other thread, except for 1″ at each edge in the teal:

And today, with Kay’s help, I figured out how to tie up the first pattern and actually got started weaving!

As a knitter, I am used to thinking of lace as having holes in the fabric to make the pattern.  Here, it is actually floats of the weft color on the surface.  But I am learning a lot and am going to plan out some other patterns to use for the rest of the curtain.  It won’t be finished by next week, but I will have the documentation done and pictures of the work in progress.