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Daily Band Practice: 23

02 Tuesday Feb 2021

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Why is this one folded, you may ask. This motif was about making the design reversible. All the other motifs clearly have a “right” and “wrong” side. Unlike Baltic style pick up, only picking up threads does not make a pretty reverse pattern. You only see the weft floats on the backside. For this diamond in a diamond pattern, every thread I picked up I dropped its heddled partner. Picking and dropping takes a bit longer, but is very worth the effort for a reversible band.

The wrong side of the band doesn’t look bad, but, it is clearly the back side. The back side of Day 13 illustrates what I mean. The areas where I picked up on the front, show the green weft on the back, not a reverse image.

The observant among you may have noticed that the folded motif is off the loom. How could this be since the month had yet to finish? Well, I miscalculated and didn’t put enough warp on my loom, so I ran out of warp. I had to warp my little inkle to finish out the month. Ah, the best laid plans of mice and men, oft go astray.

The reversible diamond is a motif from Inkle by Evelyn Neher, page 43.

Warp, weave, be happy! ~ Jennifer

Daily Band Practice: Day 20

01 Monday Feb 2021

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Daily Band Practice: Day 20

This motif was woven by picking up threads in alternating pairs, every other row, in both the background and pattern colors. I’ve only every done this with single colors. Doing a study of horizontal stripe pick-up has already taught me a lot.

I admit that I unwove quite a bit on this one. My warp was getting fuzzy because I unwove so much, and Lunatic Fringe Yarns is not a fuzzy yarn. The little white dots are supposed to be crisp, but they kept looking muddled, like in the area circled in the picture below. They blend together compared to the ones in the lower half of the diamond.

I’m curious to explore this more and try to figure out what was happening structurally. Have you ever woven this technique before? Did you experience the same problem?

Today’s design was from Inkle by Evelyn Neher, page 41. Interestingly, it was the only one of it’s type.

Warp, weave, be happy! ~ Jennifer

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 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 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.