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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 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

Daily Band Practice: Day 4

04 Monday Jan 2021

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Day 4: from Inkle, Evelyn Neher, pg 26.

I changed the original motif today. I really liked the black in yesterday’s motif and thought it would be fun to add some today too. The original pattern in Inkle by Evelyn Neher is all white.

The pick-up of this motif uses three warp ends. The thickness really makes the design pop. I can see so many possibilities for incorporating this motif into an overall design.

warp, weave, be happy! ~ Jennifer

Daily Band Practice: Day 3

03 Sunday Jan 2021

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Day 3: page 25 from Inkle by Evelyn Neher. Uses 2 warp ends at each pick-up.

Day 3 introduces black to the design. I am not sure which I like more. Doing the pick up with two warp ends at a time makes the motifs really bold.

Happily, I found out fellow band weaver, Marieke Kranenburg, of The Bandweeflblog: Adventures in Card Weaving and Band Weaving, is going to do a daily band practice also. The blog is in Dutch, so I translate it to English using Google Translate. Marieke’s daily band practice has a lovely twist that makes it uniquely hers, which any daily practice should be. She has chosen to spend her daily band practice finishing all of her unfinished objects (UFOs), in this case, bands she has pulled of looms in various stages of completion to start other bands. Isn’t this a great idea? We all have a project or two (or more than we are willing to admit), that have been sitting, just waiting to be finished. Read more about how she developed her daily practice here. Three days in and Marieke has already finished three unfinished bands. Way to go! You can follow her daily updates and see those completed bands here (the daily band practice posts are in English).

I am so excited to have unexpected company in my #dailybandpractice. If you start your own daily band practice, please share what you are doing, the more the merrier.

Daily Band Practice: Day 2

02 Saturday Jan 2021

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Day 2

This motif is from page 24 of Inkle by Evelyn Neher. Isn’t it amazing how manipulating a few warps creates such visual impact.

If you look very closely at the band, the motif is off slightly off-centern this is not a mistake. My loom is warped with 23 warp ends, but today’s design is 12 warp ends wide, making it impossible to be exactlyin the center. Before I warped my loom, I looked at all of the patterns I want to use on this band and discovered the widest is 23 warp ends. By warping for the widest motif, I figure I can use the same warp for all the motifs.

Warp, weave, be happy ~ Jennifer