Creative Stirrings

After recuperating from the sickness, which was probably flu, I spent a few days just resting and letting the body recover some strength.  Honestly, I still didn't feel like doing much.  But, since I had a nice new warp on the loom - and not just any warp, but one that had been dyed - I decided to weave a bit on it.

Dyed Warp

The warp started out in a multicolor design.  We used a dye that not only dyes, but also has a reducing agent that removes some color from the original. So there are lots of gradations of color in the warp.
Using colors in the warp, I did some weaving.

The first part was woven with purple, then I switched to green.  I had looked at a pattern weaving done on a rigid heddle loom with pick up sticks and thought - I want to try that on my loom.  Let me show you a couple of close-ups.

A couple of float patterns woven.

Another more subtle float pattern woven.

The second one is very subtle and you may have to look to find it.  It forms a wide "V" shape.
I am enjoying the interesting color variations on this dyed warp.

The episode of The Quilt Show that premiered today has Katie Pasquini Masopust as the visiting artist.   She did a demo of using grids for quilt design.  I was inspired to grab a clipboard, paper, ruler and pen to play for a bit.  While I don't think I will be following the same path that she used with it, I did design a grid for a possible art quilt.

There are a lot of possibilities here. I love the dimensional effect that I achieved with just straight lines on paper.  Only time will tell which direction this may go - or if it will go in the "un-used idea" storage bin.

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