Given my conundrum - running 'low' on 2/16 cotton, can't decide what colour(s) to buy to keep going with the towel weaving, I spent some quality time with my yarn stash. It took a while, but I 'found' the fine cashmere yarn I bought while in Scotland - along with the rest of my cashmere stash. I'm running 'low' on silk scarves and since I only have limited amounts of some of the cashmere, putting a silk warp on the loom and weaving the cashmere as weft seems like a good approach.
My inventory is currently (mostly) packed up, ready to be delivered to the guild room for the big craft fair Oct. 30, Nov 1+2, then the guild room sale in November. And I'm drowning in tea towels. I did get some shawls made, but I've lots of rayon scarves and a few silk+ scarves, but it's time I dug through my silk stash. The cashmere is largely quite fine, but most of my silk is...a mixed bag. Some of it is way too fine to use as warp, and I'm not entirely sure what I can do with it. And of course, the warp and weft colours have to be 'compatible'.
The next warp is underway, so it is time to put my thinking cap on and figure out what I can do with the silk and cashmere yarns.
I've suggested to the new weaving teacher that she can come and root through my 'samples' to see if any of them are of use to her. I have bins of 'samples' I've used to illustrate my classes. Some are just that - samples. Others are finished items. And those are the samples I would like to see carry on. The 'scraps' will likely go into the rag recycle bin.
But oh, the memories when I dig through those bins. Things I had completely forgotten I'd made suddenly come to life again. The successes...and the 'failures'...
Because no 'failure' is truly not useful, even if all it does is remind me of what I did, and how it turned out.
Kind of like life, right?
I had really hoped to use up those 3 large cones of singles 6 yarn but the only 2/16 I have in quantity is natural. And white on white doesn't always look very attractive. And I already have lots of tea towels. So, maybe it's time to put that aside once the current warp is done and dabble in the silk/cashmere? I won't get them done in time for this year, but they will take time to design, weave, fringe twist and wet finish. So, really, I'm working on next year. My days of scrambling to meet every deadline are over. I might be 'getting' this 'retired' thing...
If Canada Post gets itself sorted out (currently on rotating strikes) I might post some things to my ko-fi, available to Canadian addresses only. But I get the feeling that a lot of Canadians are watching every loonie and toonie like a hawk. Not to mention it will depend how much energy spoons I have. And I'm learning how to 'manage' what I have, instead of railing about what I have not. Difficult life lesson to learn, but...needs must...
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