Continuing the blue obsession

[montjoye]

Although I now have time to work on the brown jacket of my desire, I have concluded that I need to push on with the blue garments while that is where my head is at. I'll get these to handwork only stage before I move on. Today I cut the blue hood and did the machine assembly. I'll do some of the handsewing tonight, then hopefully get the buttonholes done tomorrow. I've ammended the pattern a bit from the red one, narrowed the gores and shortened the hem at the shoulder. It ends up less frilly and with a rounder hem. Nice.

Last night I realised that my list notebook page had a grid pattern. This inspired me to get into the design for the new tablet woven belt. I did some card count calculations and charted out what I had been thinking. Then I popped into excel to play with versions. As you can see, I liked the bottom one and have copied that out to get a better idea of the finished weave. It will be less blocky in reality due to chosing the direction of threading appropriately. I'll wait until the buckle is here before I start, though if I felt wild and crazy, I could thread up the loom. Hmm, I do need to find where I have hidden the good shuttle and starting clip. Where o where?

Now to go get dinner started before the light goes completely and my lark/budgie brain just wants to curl up on the couch.

Comments

[sjkasabi]

Ooh, lovely. And lucky you to be able to devote yourself to it! I just gave in and ordered a belt length of green and white weaving on Etsy, too! Which I think is as close as I'll get to weaving one in the next decade,.

[montjoye]

Glad you like. Yes, I am reminding myself anew just how fortunate I am to be able to pursue these things with such focus.

I'd like to see the woven length you bought too.