That scarf *is* awesome! An impressive first effort! Your beat looks nice and even, and your selvedges are very good for a beginner. Well done! You should be proud. *g*
Sorry the process wasn't enjoyable, but I urge you to try at least one more warp before you get serious about selling your loom. You have plenty of experience handling yarn (judging from your photostream). Because of that, I am guessing that the weaving-specific skills needed to make warping and weaving fun will develop quickly. Remember your first skein of handspun? (Mine was lumpy and wildly overspun, but oh, I was so proud of it!) Or the first time you tried to, say, do a skein of Navajo three-ply? Weaving is like that; once you get the muscle memory it becomes a breeze.
As for the bag, I think that the method used for the placemat (with the box bottom) will work very well for shaping the body (leaving out the fussy tabs she uses for her handles). Then you can split the remainder of the fabric in half lengthwise, join it end to end, line it and have a nice long strap, which you can sew to the short sides of the bag body and have a nifty shoulder bag, without wasting a single square inch of your precious handspun/handwoven. If you have trouble picturing what I'm describing, let me know and I'll hunt up some images to illustrate what I mean.
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Date: 2011-01-06 09:30 pm (UTC)Sorry the process wasn't enjoyable, but I urge you to try at least one more warp before you get serious about selling your loom. You have plenty of experience handling yarn (judging from your photostream). Because of that, I am guessing that the weaving-specific skills needed to make warping and weaving fun will develop quickly. Remember your first skein of handspun? (Mine was lumpy and wildly overspun, but oh, I was so proud of it!) Or the first time you tried to, say, do a skein of Navajo three-ply? Weaving is like that; once you get the muscle memory it becomes a breeze.
As for the bag, I think that the method used for the placemat (with the box bottom) will work very well for shaping the body (leaving out the fussy tabs she uses for her handles). Then you can split the remainder of the fabric in half lengthwise, join it end to end, line it and have a nice long strap, which you can sew to the short sides of the bag body and have a nifty shoulder bag, without wasting a single square inch of your precious handspun/handwoven. If you have trouble picturing what I'm describing, let me know and I'll hunt up some images to illustrate what I mean.