Wrapping Up 2014

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.

The other wrap is in the 70/30 alpaca/silk that I love. This colour is called mulberry. I've woven this one in a 3-end huck lace pattern that I have been using a bit lately. Another one, still to be finished, is in a different huck pattern with a large block at each end and a plain weave centre.

These are my focal pieces for an exhibition at Fibre Spectrum in Nelson for the whole of January 2015. Other exhibitors will be Peg Moorhouse, Sue Broad and Jane Clark. We are the "Top of the South" members of the Professional Weavers' Network of NZ.