For the past few years, Not 2 Square Weavers have been giving a cash prize for the best "Nevada County Inspired" textile. This year's winner is Ingrid Knox with this gorgeous shawl woven from Nevada County alpaca yarns. Some of the yarn came from a ranch Ingrid and her husband found while out "garage sale-ing" and the light colored yarn came from Lola's Loom (BJ Forester's alpaca herd) The design is threaded M&W's and the tie up is a twill.
Now for the rest of Ingrid's entries. (She was pretty busy this year)
Scarves - sock yarn for warp and weft, woven in plain weave
Handspun scarf - Mardi Nayton's handspun Merino yarn for warp and alpaca for the weft. 8-shaft point twill with a 2-2-1-1-1-1 tie-up
Left photo: Baby blanket - mixed cotton warp woven with synthetic baby yarn in the same twill 2-2-1-1-1-1 as is done in the SF towel.
Right photo: Summer Shawl - Mixed warp and a slubby cotton weft (Cotton Kisses from Plymouth). Structure is plain weave.
Left photo: Rosepath towel - 10/2 natural cotton warp and a 10/2 variegated cotton weft. 8-shaft rosepath design
Right photo: San Francisco Towel - 10/2 perle cotton for warp and weft. 8-shaft point twill tied-up as a 2-2-1-1-1-1
Stay tuned for our last fair post -- coming in a few days!
1 comment:
Very inspiring!
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