Progress

[altivo]

It clearly helps to stay home and concentrate on one thing sometimes. Last night I had just under two full squares of weaving completed. Tonight I have six finished and am ready to start on the seventh in the morning.

I also had occasion to talk to the manager of the group project. Turns out I am not the last to finish after all. I should be done tomorrow. There are still two people out of the group of ten who haven't finished and she doesn't know how far along they are. Now I can feel better, though I'll feel much better when this is just plain finished.

Rita was (as always) extremely nice and helpful. I mentioned that I was concerned that I might run out of the natural colored cotton before reaching the end, and she actually brought a spool of it to me at the library while I was working tonight. She reassured me that my squares, however I interpreted them, will be just fine.

Even so, if I never see any more purple yarn I will NOT complain. I'm sure I've mentioned before the fact that of ten chosen colors (one for each participant) I had to weave with to finish this task, six were shades of purple. In fact, four of those were the same shade, about the color of grape soda (ugh.)

Anyway, I should sleep better tonight. Especially since I feel as if I'd been riding a bicycle all day. No hills, but a steady pace on the level. I think I've not woven this much in a single day before, and these being complex two-footed patterns, it became exercise of a sort.

Comments

[avon_deer]

I seem to recall purple not being a favourite colour of yours.

[altivo]

You recall correctly. Actually, I don't dislike purple of itself, but at least in America it is vastly abused and overused. What I have begun to dislike most intensely is walking into a fabric store or an exhibition of finished hand work and finding that 90% of what I see is some shade of purple. This was not always true, and I'm not sure why purple has become such a fad, but in the last two decades it is invariably the dominant color at such events and places.

The pattern yarn for the project in question was available in about 100 different hues, all of them very nicely dyed. So out of ten people, four of them chose the exact same color, and one that hardly ever occurs in nature.

My own choice is a slightly mottled blue somewhere between the color of a clear summer sky and that of deep still water in sunlight.

[avon_deer]

Historically it has always been a very expensive colour. But not so much now with modern dyes. I can't explain it myself either.