If you were asked to pick the colors of winter, which would you choose?
My project idea
is to make four nature themed dishtowels, one in different seasonal colors. Since it's been snowing,
winter is the season I thought I'd
start with. For color inspiration,
I chose this photo, thanks to
our recent winter storm.
It isn't a stripe inspiring photo, so I created a color palette.
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| It's interesting that in the photo the right most cone of yarn is greenish. In real life, it's brownish looking. Ditto with the 2nd to the left, which is bluish here. |
Next I used a
Random Stripe Generator
to create some stripes. Their color choices didn't quite match mine, but I
just wanted an idea of how similar colors in a random arrangement might look.
At this point, the thing to do should have been making a digital model with weaving software. Except I don't have weaving software installed on this laptop, so I had a play with it in Gimp. I turned the stripes vertically as the bottom layer, superimposed the leaf weave draft as a top layer, and did a little color replacement of the original draft.
My first thought was that the leaf pattern became somewhat lost. It might look better if I could zoom out, which weaving software would help with. So would sampling, and I'm thinking I should try both an 8/2 white weft and a 6/2
white weft and experiment with the beat to make sure I don't lose the leaf
pattern.
My other thought was that it might be best to stick with warp colors of
similar value, so there's no visual competition with the leaf pattern. I want variation in the leaf motif to be subtle and not compete with the pattern. If I do that, I have four colors closer in value.
My other observation is that replicating the stripes from the random stripe generator would be a tedious task. Especially since I'll likely need something like 370 ends! So I'll have to come up with another way to design a random stripe warp of that width.
So this is my starting point. We'll have to see what develops from here.
