Saturday, December 3, 2011

Goes with Oatmeal

My best friend's daughter got married June 18, of this year.  I did not quite finish the present in time, but now it is done.  Non-weavers, you will probably tune out.  I used FoxFibre Coloragnic yarn from Vreseis Ltd, 10/2 cotton in an oatmeal color.  Sally Fox developed cotton plants with selective breeding from a wild brown cotton, and spread out the spectrum to include green, red and pink.  These are a throw back to ancient Peru where cotton was grown in many colors, not dyed later.  The fabric is 20 inches wide, 24 ends per inch and 24 picks per inch, 480 threads arranged in a straight 3 thread 16 harness Huck Lace pattern with free form undulations.  Towards the end of threading the loom, I was feeling a little smug on the accuracy, and of course missed a thread and had to re-do the last 100. Ugh.  Washing and hemming awaits.  Then the giving too!