Silk Scarves

I sent for some silks from The Georgia Yarn co in USA recently and was so excited to get them.  Here are the first three scarves, the top one in a fancy twill with 'Apricot' Blush' warp and 'Rio Red' weft. The other two are in less complicated twill variations and hve 'Fusion Coral' warp and weft.  Apart from the rather strange names I love working with the silk and look forward to getting more colours when Michael has his promised silk sale in May.  I still have 'Poppy Red' on hand to look forward to.

Here are some close-ups.

I was surprised by the amount of loose dye that washed out of these yarns but otherwise love them.

Warmest Chick in the World

Challenge time for Dunedin Creative Fibre Festival. I've been feeling guilty about not entering anything in the national exhibition so when I realised I still had time to put an entry in the challenge I thought I had better do so. I usually like the challenges - some better than others. This time it was something to be inspired by the flora and fauna of Otago.

I have had a basket of soft kid mohair sitting beside my loom for so long I had almost stopped seeing it, but recently two people (weavers of course) independently saw it and drew my attention back to it. 

How perfect is that to represent these fluffy yellow-eyed penguin chicks!

 

I had some silver-grey synthetic boucle to use for a warp at 10 epi so it was very quick to get started and also quick to weave - one shuttle, plain weave.

Here's a close up.

 

Next day - ta da - we have a shawl. 

I did my normal Philippine edges and twisted fringes and there it is.

I call it "Warmest Chick in the World"