These wraps seem to have been a long time coming but finally both are finished at the same time. This silver-grey one has the same specifications as the one I sent to the Dunedin Challenge which got chosen for the travelling suitcase. As it will be away at least a couple of years I decided to make another. The warp is a synthetic boucle of some slippery kind. I really like it. The weft is predominantly kid mohair with a little nylon to bind it. Another gorgeous yarn.
This time I had trouble with static electricity which I didn't get the first time. The weft just flew underneath the web and wanted to cling on. I had to really watch it and even so ended up with quite a few loops that I had missed, so there was a bit of mending to do. The boucle does not make a nice fringe and I wasn't satisfied with the twisted one on the previous wrap. This time I threaded on some little square wooden beads which were just the right colour (Yay for the Hospice Shop and its pre-loved jewellery). I knotted the groups close to the beads and again at the bottom of the fringe. It's still a bit untidy in my view but I still have the option of trimming the fringe off after the first knots.
