I have some beautiful cotton chenille threads right now to play with. One of them is a gorgeous lavender color. I had to do something with it.
I've been having a lot of trouble getting the patterns in my weaving to show up. One theory was I was using too thin of a warp thread for the larger, thicker chenille weft. So, this project used the purple and blue chenille for the warp and then I woven entirely with the purple thread. It is so soft!
The pattern still didn't show up like I had hoped, but it worked out better. So, I played with it. It's pretty and it is soft, but I'm not sure what I want to do with it. I'm thinking I might sew it into large bags.
This is weave #1
Hold it up to the window and you can see a bit of the pattern. It's isn't spectacular, but it's nice. You can see in the weave there are darker threads, they are random blue threads I threw into the warp to spice it up a bit.
Weave #2
Here it is up to the window. You can see the pattern so much better with light behind it:
I like this a lot. It's got a nice stripe thing going on in it.
I like the idea of making some bags out of this, but I don't know what to use for a bag strap. I thought about using the inkle loom to make nice straps, but you can see in the previous post, that turned into a disaster. I'm not sure what I'm going to do.
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