Back to the tapestry

I have gone away for a couple of days. I brought my loom with me - fortunately it is not very big and is fairly easily transported (works best with a car!).

My back has been sore, so I have not woven for a few days. I am still a bit stiff but I have taken breaks (and put on some Deep Heat creme!!). I didn't do much but it is approaching the top. Great excitement. 

I am still making up my story. Some colours keep tying to dominate but others keep intruding. I'll have to decide what to do about the top part - it's the next part!!! Worry, worry. 

It is soooo not what I had envisaged - if I actually did envisage anything. I am not a very visual person, which I find surprising as I like textile art. But I don't see what I am thinking about, I have to see an image and then adapt it, usually. It is usually from a photo I have taken, sometimes from a drawing (but I don't draw much either). 

This time I only had a vague idea and drew some lines on a piece of paper. It was going to be a shaped tapestry but, as I went along, I couldn't see the point, so now it will be a square (as much as I am able to make it regular).

I have tried a coloured warp and had thoughts of allowing it to show but that hasn't eventuated. Fortunately (?) I have plenty more of the yellow warp so can experiment some more. 

I didn't bring much stuff with me, so will have to make do with the colours I brought. It is freeing, in a way, I don't have to stress too much about what to use. 

A mostly unplanned tapestry.

 As promised, I am posting about the tapestry I am playing with at the moment. 

I have a very vague plan - just some lines drawn on a piece of paper, no colours, no textural suggestions, just shapes. 

I have a collection of leftover thrums as well a some yarns I have bought over the years and have never used, of varying types. Some are wool, mohair, silk and wool mixes, dyed spun wool, etc. I am hoping to use the thrums but some are small amounts, so that might affect my colourway quite a bit. As you might gather, I really don't have a plan!

One good outcome is that I have learnt how to make the hanks of yarn into balls.

At a meeting of my tapestry weaving group a couple of months ago, we mentioned using coloured warp. I have never tried that so came home all enthused and ordered some. I have no idea what I am thinking to achieve with it but I have warped the loom with yellow. 

Because of the warp, my collection of thrums and other yarns includes a lot of yellow!