It's mostly brown as you can see, but with lighter stripes in three shades of red. It makes a great wrap, but I wish I had made it a bit longer. So, the only solution is...make another one. This time, I am using mostly red with two shades of brown striping.
Folks, in this photo it really looks more bright red than it is. This one will be longer, but the same width and sett. I used the two-ply Harrisville shetland yarns again. This yarn finishes up so nicely, and is warm but light weight. I guess I am in a rut, but I do like weaving warp stripes. For one thing, the weaving itself is easy with only one weft color that complements the main warp color. But the main thing is that I enjoy winding these warps. I pick the stripe colors I want, then make the color order and stripe width as I go along following proportion principles. In this new one, the stripes were either 3, 5, or 7 warp threads wide (8 seemed too wide).
When I first learned to weave, the patterns insisted on symmetrical stripes. In fact, I would fold the warp in half precisely so that each side was identical across the width of the piece. How freeing not to be enslaved to this methodology. My pieces are now asymmetrically striped, and much more creative. And they are unique; no machine or pattern can replicate what I do on the fly as I am warping.
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