Some weaving photos

My latest work (I just took it off the loom, haven’t even twisted the fringe yet):

It’s a 3/80 Nm 55/45 silk/cashmere yarn from Colourmart, color “Silver Fox”.  I had Richard wind four strands together, and used the quadrupled strand to warp/weave the fabric.  The warp is the original color, the weft I dyed black.  The pattern is an advancing twill from the book Twill Thrills: The Best of Weaver’s.  It’s sett at 24 epi and 24 ppi.  It’s gorgeous, and buttery soft!  I can’t wait to finish twisting the fringe and wet-finishing it.

And here is the checkerboard shawl I was talking about:

The photo really doesn’t do it justice – the base yarn is fuschia, red, hot pink, and orange, with a strand of glitz running through it.  The pattern is a slightly modified 2/2 twill, giving those neat diagonal lines in the red/black sections.

The yarn is Blue Heron Yarn’s Cot/Ray/Metallic in color “Poppy”.

And here is the drawdown for the shawl I’m about to start.  I’m proud of this one; it’s my own design, (significantly) modified from the Hearts shawl in Twill Thrills. I call it “Tiger Eye”.  I’m doing this one in 28/2 silk and 1/14 Nm cashmere from Colourmart – I dyed the silk two subtly different shades of orange, and the cashmere black.  I’m trying to see if I can get tiger striped lampwork beads to put on the fringe.