The second color stripe was finished tonight. The play on textures and colors are just fascinating to me. As you can see from the picture the next shuttle is loaded and ready to go. This will be one of the bigger stripes.
I am really having fun with this one. I just love how the yarn is creating optical illusions on its own. It is very visible in the green section.
Every once in a while we all acquire yarn for our stash. Some one has an idea for the yarn, but me the designer in me just did not see it. So it just sat there waiting in a basket. I tried knitting, weaving and crochet. I just could not make the yarn sing.
Then came the long scarf’s for a Knitting Guild project. A scarf knit on the round with 2 strands of yarn, 1 sock weight and 1 of worsted weight. The yarn is finally singing. Combined with yellow, red and a dark purple cotton. I am on the fourth stripe. The scarf is just flowing off the knitting needles. It is so bright and colorful. I am hopeful a teenager will like it. Nine inches down only 65 inches to go.
The weaving project is starting to take on a life of its own. The yarn is saying what it wants to be. This is always a good thing. Yesterday I warped the loom and put in the header. That alone took 2 hours.
Today I started on the design. This skein of very over plyed art yarn just popped up in my search through the spindle spun yarn and art yarn basket. The basket is about the size of a large laundry basket. I made a lot of little skeins. The section of orange yarn wanted to be twisted, turned and wrapped around individual threads of the progress was very slow. The small section of orange and the few green leafs took 2 hours of work. Although I do love the very dramatic effect it has on the project so far. The up side is that I am so in love with it so far. The art work and the loom. The down side, sorry that there is none. I am having so much fun. Tomorrow I might add a river bank and stream I have the yarn picked out
I did not sketch out the design ahead of time. I want this to be a very organic piece. I want a piece that brings me joy to create. Joy to look at. And joy for other people. I also did not want this to be a flat tapestry, lots of people do those. I also know that the weaving and spinning purest are going to hate it. That’s fine with me. This is my art on my terms.
Some times it takes a while to buy something new for the house. Yesterday’s delivery was case in point. I saw the Cubii when the first version was released. I read reviews. I went back and forth. I bet you thought that John was the only one that did this. Fast forward to yesterday. The Cubii2 was delivered. With all the boxes it came in we thought it was going to be huge. No, we just played the box game. You know the one. You open the first box only to find another box, only to find another box. Just like Russian Nesting Dolls. John assembled it while I read all the paperwork. Then we put it on the charger for 6 hours.
This morning despite waking up with a headache, I spent 18 minutes working out after breakfast. The first workout was not bad, but some adjustments needed to be done. After dinner I did a 25 minute workout after one adjustment. The workout was even better than the morning one. I am not sure who thinks that you can not get a good workout with something like the Cubii2, but after this evening’s workout I needed to towel off and change clothes. Best of all no back pain at all while using it.
John did the research after I book marked it. He bought it for me in hopes it helps my fitness levels get better. It seems my fitness level drops after every surgery. I still have not gotten my stamina back after December’s surgery. This is easy and fun. My goal for right now is twice a day for 15 minutes or so. However once the music starts and I get in the groove I just keep going. I hope that this is really going to help.
This post was not paid for. John bought the Cubii2 for me. These are my personal opinions.
