People don't realize that the act of creation usually doesn't fall full blown out of one's head into reality. More usually it begins with a thought, a seed of an idea, and then as I work with it, I begin to push, pull, tug at it until it becomes...something.
So a few weeks ago I had an idea, a concept. It was pretty well formed - as a concept. But when I began putting my thoughts onto 'paper' (because I needed to go old school) it was pretty simple. As the days/weeks went by, I began tweaking the idea, making minor changes, just to see what happened when I did.
In the interim from having the idea, getting the original woven and wet finished, I have gone through several incarnations, slowly beginning to see how the weave structure works.
And yes, some of those ideas went straight to the trash bin!
However, I have arrived at this one, and once I get the scarves done (hopefully this week) I think this is the one I will put into the loom next.
Right now I'm enjoying this 'play', trying this, trying that, tweaking here, tweaking there. It is fulfilling the desire I had to explore weave structure and experiment.
I'm not entirely satisfied with this, and *may* tweak it a bit further over the next few days because I see a way forward to clean up some of the lines. But I may wait until I see it in the loom. That's one of the big advantages of a computer assisted dobby - I can quickly make edits, then give them a try.
But right now my priority is to get the scarves done on the small loom.
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