Yardage!
This is so amazing and I have been excited about it all week (and also
someday I will blog in something approaching real time rather than
several days or weeks after the fact, but this week is not that week).
Right
now, it's about 18 inches wide and 4 yards long. I still need to stitch
the ends to stabilize them and full it, which will cause some
shrinkage, but hopefully not too much. Once that's taken care of I can
measure again and figure out how wide a band I'll need to weave to go
across the top edge so the cloak ends up big enough to use. (Something
tells me I'm probably not going to be wearing this cloak this
winter. I've never woven damasked anything, and I definitely want to do
that for the upper band, although I might chicken out and go with a
contrasting pattern/weft so it looks like a very intentional addition rather than a mathematical failure).
I
also took a photo of the only weaving error I know of in this piece,
which I left in place because a. it is very tiny and subtle and b. it
amused me to have one imperfection.
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