30 Days of November, Day 4: Of Woven Things Part 2

Hello there again. Last time we met up to chat about weaving I ended by discussing my current project, Beans.  I was faced with the disheartening task of frogging some of my work in order to add in another colour. I am now going to catch up on how that went and also share my plan going forward.

I sat down and started to undo the weaving while having a conversation with my Father on Thursday. I can't remember what it was about now but it certainly made this process go by quickly. The yarn did snag a bit because as you know wool threads get quite friendly with each other but I overcame that by creating a bigger tent in the warp. I took out the last section up to where I had joined in a new set of yarn and ended up with 25 inches still on the warp. I wound the yarn off the shuttle and ended up with a 5gram ball of the multi-colored yarn (M).

Here is the little cutie-pie of the multi-colored yarn.

After that I weighed the yarn I had remaining, and figured out that it had taken me just under half of the yarn to reach that length. This made me feel better about undertaking this process because I had measured the wrap to be about 7 feet, and this yarn would only do at most 5 feet of that length if I were very lucky.

I didn't have to think too hard about what yarn I would use to create some sort of pattern because I still had a two balls left over of the colors I had used in the warp.  They were a dark brown (B) and a summer green (G), pictured below. 

This is a nice bright green!

This is actually a lot darker than
it looks in this picture.

I decided then that I would create a pattern of M/G/B/M/B/G/M. I can't say for sure how this will look in the end but I am going to give it a try. If I don't like I, I can strike up another conversation with my Father and set to undoing it again! Maybe I'll remember what we were talking about this time and share it with you all.

I have been quite pressed for time, but I did make a start on the first green section and I have managed to do about two inches of it, and it is going quite nice so far. Have a look and tell me what you think!

You can see a bit of one of the lovely shuttles
hand-made by the late wood-artist, Paul Thomas.