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Daily Band Practice: Days 17, 18, 19

31 Sunday Jan 2021

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  • Day 17
  • Day 18
  • Day 19

More two color pick-up, but these designs have less interplay of the colors. They all would make fun designs to weave the length of a band. Day 18 made me think of snow on mountains. Does day 19 make you think of tic-tac-toe?

As simple as it is, the design from day 17 is my favorite. The point where it crosses has that energy I like of the two colors being picked-up. If it were repeated diamonds would appear. Then, wouldn’t it look amazing to place the motif from day 13 in the middle of the diamond. I’ll have to remember that idea…

Daily Band Practice: Days 13, 14, 15, 16 and some self care.

31 Sunday Jan 2021

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Sometimes we choose to take a break and sometimes life makes us take a break. Life made me take a break and focus on selfcare to recoup from a surgery. (All better!) I hadn’t made it a practice to look ahead at the motifs, preferring to discover what I would be weaving each day. But, in knowing I was not going to be able to weave for a few days, I not only looked ahead, but, I also wove days 13, 14, and 15 on day 12. In hindsight, I should have woven day 16 too. Lessons learned.

Designs woven by picking up both colors, like in days 13-16, are what excite me the most about weaving pick-up on horizontal stripes. I love the energy created by picking-up both colors within the same design. Doing so changes the visual texture so much. I will be exploring this technique more later in the year for sure.

Day 14 was my favorite of all when I wove it, but it was a little mind bending in the weaving and following of the chart. I did a lot of unweaving that day. I’ll chalk it up to still recuperating.

All of the motifs here are from Inkle by Evelyn Neher, pages 35-38.

Daily Band Practice: Day 12

14 Thursday Jan 2021

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More rhombuses. These bring to mind trellises leaning against a wall. Using two threads at each pick or row made these nice and bold.

I did modify this just a titch by making the overall motif shorter. The pattern in the book has the white one starting at the last pick of the black one. My warp may not make it to the end of the month, so I’m trying to conserve. Every row helps.

In my next post I will share three days in one. They are my favorite yet, and really make sense to be shared together. Yes, I looked ahead… I’ll be away from my loom and don’t want to fall behind. So I had to peak, but I stopped at three days.

Until next time,

warp, weave, be happy! ~ Jennifer

Daily Band Practice: Day 11

11 Monday Jan 2021

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Weaving pick-up on a horizontal stripe background with two threads at a time really punches up the visual impact of the design. This design is so bold, partly owing to it being in black. The motif I wove on day 7 is similar to this one, but definitely has a much more delicate feel. The combination of it being white and woven with single pick-up threads it has more of a lacey appearance.

I would love to weave a band that has variations of this motif woven with one, two, then three threads picked-up in the motifs. Seeing the progression of the difference of the motifs on one band might be very interesting. Or, how about weaving each motif in black then white, but using the same number of pick-up threads. Thinking of all the design possibilities is such fun!

Until tomorrow my fellow inkle lover,

warp, weave, happy! ~ Jennifer

Daily Band Practice: Day 10

10 Sunday Jan 2021

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Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.🎶

The design in today’s motif makes me think of falling snowflakes, the big light fluffy kind. I don’t know, maybe I see snowflakes because we did not get to go north for our annual family holiday trip where we are almost guaranteed to see snow each year.

The thought of weaving delicate snowflakes makes me happy.

Today’s motif can be found on page 32 of Inkle by Evelyn Neher.

Until tomorrow,

warp, weave, be happy! ~ Jennifer

Daily Band Practice: Day 9

09 Saturday Jan 2021

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Daily Band Practice; Day 9
Arows and a Diamond

This motif seems to want to be called Arrows and a Diamond, which sounds like a book title to me. What would be the plot of the book…hmmm?

I was so in a place of zen while weaving today that I was halfway into weaving the top arrow a second time before I realized that I was repeating it. While I was unweaving, I had a feeling I rarely feel when unweaving: contentment. Weaving a bit every day without a deadline or a goal at the end, rather just for the joy of weaving is proving to be very meditative. Do you lose yourself in your weaving?

Today’s motif is from Inkle by Evelyn Neher page 30.

warp, weave, be happy! ~ Jennifer

Daily Band Practice: Day 8

08 Friday Jan 2021

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Day 8 brings what looks to me like a rhombus doing a yoga stretch. I modified this one a bit, found on page 28 in Inkle by Evelyn Neher. The original motif is about half the size of mine, at only 13 picks long, but the band the original is woven on has a narrower pick-up area. Something just told me to fill my whole weaving area, which added 20 more rows of weaving. If I keep straying from the original designs, I am going to run out of warp before I planned. I guesstimated the length of my warp based on the average number of picks in 30 motifs. If I keep weaving more than planned for . . . Well, it is an adventure, right?

warp, weave, be happy! ~ Jennifer

Daily Band Practice: Day 7 & out of weft.

07 Thursday Jan 2021

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Daily Band Practice: Day 7.
Daily Band Practice: Day 7

Playing with outlines again. This motif is very attractive. Wouldn’t it make a pretty band woven at intervals along an entire band. I can image the band warped with a fourth color in the middle. Something bold like red? Bright, maybe yellow? Ooo, or maybe multiple colors in one bold stripe? Hmmm…

Shuttle is loaded and ready for more weaving.

Isn’t this green from Lunatic Fringe just yummy? I’m seven days into weaving the first band of my daily band practice and I ran out of weft. This is one of my favorite shuttles to weave with, but it doesn’t hold a lot of weft. It was interesting, however, to calculate that I’ve used 6.8 yards of weft so far, that’s more weft than I would have thought. If my average amount of weaving stays the same, I will use approximately 350 yards of weft. Now I’m curious and will have to keep track.

Today’s motif is from page 28.

warp, weave, be happy! ~ Jennifer

Daily Band Practice: Day 6

06 Wednesday Jan 2021

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Day 6, Inkle, by Evelyn Neher, pg. 28
Daily Band Practice: Day 6. The diamond in the middle looks like it is floating.

The day after a few wondering what an outlined motif would look like, Evelyn Neher presents an outlined motif in the book. Of, course she did, because the book is so well written. The outline makes the center diamond look like it is floating. A bit of unweaving happened today, as I tried to put a bit of black pick-up in the middle. When I was almost finished I realized the black wasn’t in the center. It was faster to unweave and reweave without additional pick-up, so no modifications today.

This is a fun idea that I really look forward to exploring more. Today’s pattern is from page 28.

warp, weave, be happy! ~ Jennifer

Daily Band Practice: Day 5

05 Tuesday Jan 2021

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From Inkle, by Evelyn Neher, pg. 27

I don’t look ahead at what the next day’s motif will be. I like the anticipation each day. So, it was a pleasant surprise to see this motif today. Compared to the boldness of the motifs the last four days, this one seems so sweet and delicate.

While it is a more basic design than the others, Evelyn Neher introduced it as a technique to use for outlining larger motifs. It was a quick pattern to weave. Indeed, to use it alone as a repeat would make a very attractive band that would be fast to whip up.

Until tomorrow,

warp, weave, be happy! ~ Jennifer