Mon 16^th – Fri 20^th Oct, 2017

                This week has been very busy due to preparing to get onto the looms next week. Since my EPI for my warp is very high I wanted to get as much done as possible so that my allocated time on the looms can be use to its best potential. Therefore this week I began by getting all of my yarns dyed. My initial plan was to try and get two tones of 3 of the colours so that I could wrap them round end on end. However due to the technique that I used, unfortunately this didn’t work so I ended up with just the 3 initial colours. I also ended up with my brown/grey yarn colour coming out a pale Khaki Green. Thankfully this colour is in my colour scheme and still works with my plan so is still useable – I almost think it looks better and more complimentary.

                After the dyeing process I wound my yarn onto cones so that I could begin my warp. However it took 2 days to wind all the yarn on so I have started making my warp a little later than planned. Once I finally began my warp on Friday, it all looked really nice together and worked really well. But after I added the orange I started to question if I still liked the colour combination I had chosen. I felt as though it looked a bit more spooky, almost like Halloween, rather than the warm autumnal colour palette I was looking for. At this point it is too late to change anything so I will have to hope that once it’s on the loom I will really like it and will have lots of ideas to play around with.

                So far I have tried out a few possible peg plans on Scotweave. I am hoping to create a fairly simple one to use for my first go since I will be focusing on how the loom works and getting used to that, rather than necessarily focusing on creating a nice sample.