Gold.... this was a golden day that is for sure. I've been working on my woven sample all day with the Muga silk.... it is looking beautiful so far. I won't show it till it is done and it is taking me longer than I thought. I decided to use my regular 6 x 6 pin loom instead of the multi.... (for those of you who weave you will understand that the principle of these two looms are very different). I did this because a very strange thing occurred.... the best laid plans never seem to work. I had intended on using a nicely worsted spun 2-ply silk yarn for the warp and a nubby muga silk/sari silk for the weft but low and behold I started to weave and the darn thing looked just a little too dicey for my liking. So I x'd that idea coming out of the gate and moved on to Plan B. Plan B was to use the worsted Muga silkfor both warp and weft and maybe throw in a little leno lace as I was weaving.... so that is what is being executed as I am writing..... one word.... gorgeous! Definitely the right idea. And, I am so in love with this Muga silk that I am now rethinking my embroidery piece. I was going to do a stylized Blue Jay on a linen back ground but ever since I did the piece for level 3 two years ago which looked like this if you recall...
... well ever since then I've been wanting to do this one....
However I knew that I would need at least three shades of silk if not four.... well I have them.... I have Bombyx, I have Tussah, I have Muga, and I have Cinnamon Tussah.... all really beautiful and perfect for an embroidered owl.... so I think I will do that. It will mean a few extra hours of spinning but I think it will be worth it in the end. And I still haven't found those flippin' coccoons. The moon and the branches will be Bombyx (that's really white for you non-spinners) and the owl will be a combination of the two kinds of Tussah and the Muga silk, (creamy champagne colour and golden champagne colour and cinnamon/bronze for you non-spinners). I might even use a little of the blue that I have around the moon to give the moon a slight halo effect.
Anyway, getting back to why this day was golden.... well weaving with that golden silk was one reason... the other was that my friend showed up and we had a great day gabbing. Spinning days with friends are always golden. She spun (merino) and I carried on with the weaving. Then the sun was out and poured its glorious golden rays all over us through the living room window.... it was really hard to not think of the day as golden in all that sunshine with the golden silk in my hands.
So yes it was a golden day.... John Denver had a good idea when he wrote that song.... too bad he didn't say golden....
Some days are diamonds, some days are gold, some days are stones too but there were no stones today....
Happy end of January... it's all easy sailin' from here.... yeh!
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