My weaving goal this year is to use nature for design inspiration. I started by exploring color combinations from nature, which I've been working on for awhile now:
Nature's Color Palettes
Inspiration From Nature: Stripes
I've finally started on a project! My idea is to weave a series of four dishtowels with a nature motif in seasonal color schemes.
I chose a weaving draft with a leaf pattern.
My idea is to make the warp in random seasonal colors, and the weft a solid color to outline the leaves.
I'm starting with winter. This is the photo I took after our big snow storm.
I couldn't actually make stripes from it like I did in the
nature inspired stripes thread, so I created a color palette like the ones I did in my
color palette thread.
Then I took a look at my cotton weaving yarns and chose the closest match I could manage. The weft is going to be white, inspired by the snow in the photo. So the leaf shapes will be in white, filled in with the winter colors.
The challenging part was figuring out how to make the color sequence random. I'm not sure why this was important, other than i wanted the focus to be on the leave shapes rather than a stripe pattern. To design a random sequence, I used the
Stripes Pattern Generator.
Winding it onto my warping board has been slow going, but I've made a start.
My dream has always been to live close to the land. My goal is simpler, sustainable, more self-reliant living. In 2009 my husband and I bought a neglected 1920s-built bungalow on 5 acres, which we've gradually built into our homestead.
