The Chenille Stash

This is the crop of chenille all squeezed into the viewfinder of my camera before being boxed up and shipped off to the Iowa Artisans Gallery in Iowa City. If the angle doesn't make you queasy, you can see they are lined up on top of my loom, and off in the distance is my spinning wheel.

I spent part of the weekend working on my soysilk scarf project. I rather like how slow it's going. It's very meditative. Often I listen to podcasts while I work. My favorites are Cast-On, Weavecast, and This American Life.

I've got about 42" woven on the first scarf. When I get to 60" I'll cut it off and do the finishing before starting the next one. I want some feedback in the form of knowing how it's going to turn out before I embark on the second scarf. I already know I have some needle weaving to do on this first one. I had a mis-threading which I thought I had fixed with a repair heddle, but boy was I wrong. I ended up having to tie a string heddle in there, which was quite a production, but now we're moving along very well.