Halfway through

By weaving obsessively, I am nearly halfway through the panel; I expect to finish weaving today.  I have mixed feelings about it.  The color gradation is coming out smoothly – too smoothly for my tastes, I had been hoping for more striation.  This is the result of (a) moving to a row length that does not match the length of a weft shot, so the colors pool less, and (b) making the blobs of color narrower lengthwise.  I think for the next blank I will try to match the row length to the length of a weft shot again.

The blank is also coming out significantly longer than I had expected – I was aiming for 48″ but it seems likely I’ll wind up with something more like 54″.  This is a more serious issue.  Fortunately, I had planned for something like this: I can use this blank as the sleeve, where the variant length will be less noticeable.  Or I can use it as a “spare”.  Either way will work, I think.

Once I finish weaving it, I’ll need to overdye it.  Fortunately I can do this in parallel with knitting the next blank.

Here is a pic of the blank so far – hopefully you can see what I mean by lack of striation:

It’s there, but it’s very subtle, and probably won’t be visible after the blank is painted with fiber-reactive dyes.