Rosie Hyde's Weaving Project 1

Rosie Hyde's Weaving Project 1

Jung-Ah Kim

Rosie Hyde

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Projects that were really meaningful to me. I'll talk about the blanket that I finished recently. That blanket was, I wanted to use my big loom, I wanted to make a big blanket. And I knew that once you've washed it, it wasn't going to be 60 inches anymore, it was only going to be like 55 inches. So I made it quite long. And it was mostly wool that I bought at a local store that has some quite thick, nice wool. And then there was also a yellow stripes in the blanket that are some of my spinning. I got three bags of this pretty soft buttery yellow colored wool, I spun it and I applied it, and I used it in the work actually in the blanket. And then I got a whole bunch of white yarn and I was able to use that in the weft. So it kind of unifies the blanket. So it was really nice to weave. It just felt great. And then when I took it off the loom after I twisted the ends of it, I just put it in the washing machine for a regular cycle. I figured go for it. Let's see what happens. And it came out so thick and substantial, that I was very, very happy. That's a lovely quality of woven material. Not really felted but well fold together. So that was a recent project.