Soumak Obsession

I think the title pretty much says how I spent the weekend, obsessed with Soumak weaving. I have pictures, but the work is not complete yet. Friday night and most of Saturday were spent working on this project. Remember, this was a fiber challenge. I have no more fiber to work with once I use up all of once color. That was pretty interesting and I ended up having to juggle some colors around, but I am well pleased with how it is turning out so far. I am done with the CA sunset and almost done with the NC sunset. It's looking good. Even my hubby is impressed. Here's the pictures.

The left picture shows the first warp I did, the one that fell apart. The second image shows the complete piece as it is right now. Next week, I will have closeups of the finished sides. I'm very please with how it is turning out, but there is no more dyed fiber, so I have to do some fill-in with black yarn. See the top horizontal yarns going across the piece, those are used to separate the warp threads and to mark my 2 inch lines. This is where each piece will end. So, I have about 1.5 inches left on the CA side and about 1 inch on the NC side. Not sure how that happened, but there you have it. I should have added some more black on the bottom of the CA side, but it will work out.

Sockapaloooza progress -- none. I have an image though of the yarn. The left skein is the sockpal yarn, "Fire on the Mountain." The right skein will become a pair of socks for me, "Lapis."

I'm still pretty confused about which sock pattern I want to use with the sockpal yarn. I'm now thinking about Jeanie Townsend's Socks Knit Along "Pretty Petals". I'll swatch to see how this yarn looks in this pattern, but it is reminescent of the dragon scales (wyvern pattern) with a bit more lace to them on the top, but the pattern doesn't go all the way down. Not sure why. Sigh, I want the pattern to travel all the way down to the toes almost, not just on the top. Especially as I think this yarn would look great that way. I'll see how the swatches look and make my decision then.

MysteryShawlAlong3 -- no progress on this at all. I was busy with the Soumak weaving. I was also worried the warp would fall apart on me, so I was rushing to finish that project. There are some typos in the charts for MSA3, but they have been fixed, so I may start that tonight, depending on how I feel about the soumak weaving.

I did not join the Knitting Olympics because life is packed right now, but I did work on the weaving while watching the Olympics.

That's it from me. Happy fibering!