silly billy

Above left is the first bout of my next warp: the lightest colours in a pink-red-purple combination.  I really enjoyed getting back to the business of making something new (in my lovely tidy studio!)  Then, as I started on the second bout, I realised I had completely misread my winding plan.  How did I manage to do that?

Admittedly it is a plan that I drew up two or three weeks ago, so my mind wasn’t fully absorbed in it — as it usually would be if I had just worked out the design on the computer, printed it out and gone straight to the warping board.  But this mistake was really just carelessness.  I was supposed to use the rose pink yarn on the right, but instead I used the brighter pink yarn on the left.  These are yarns that don’t come with names or numbers so I give them fairly rough handles — light pink, mid pink, bright pink and other creative inventions — which are easy to associate with the yarns in question.  This time, though, the connection failed and I headed off down the wrong track.

It’s an interesting conundrum.  The bout looks perfectly fine on its own, but I now have to work out what to do with bout two.  I should have been blending from the rose to the pink next, but clearly that’s not going to happen.  My inclination is to go back to a literal reading of the original plan from now on and then, when it is all laid out in the raddle, see whether I need to replace the incorrect section.  It may look hideous, it may look delightful or it may look ordinary.