02-27-2023

Planning stages. This will be hand-knotted on the 28-inch Ashford knitter’s loom.

Likely colors to be used, all Knit Picks Palette fingering weight wool.
Black (buy 10)
blue-green (shoal/spruce)
blue (jay/celestial)
green (aurora heather/grass)
purple (eggplant/majestic)
fuscia (fairy tale/regal)
brown (hazelnut/rooibos heather)
red (garnet/hollyberry)
Scrapped these colors. Will do tartan colors instead.

02-28-2023

Ordered Maysville natural 8/4 cotton for warp.

03-02-2023

The test patch explanation:
https://youtu.be/wNFJjlQz9ro

June 12, 2023

Oh, how I hate to warp on.

Doing continuous warp mechanism for this project because the tension is awful otherwise.

June 13, 2023

Continuous warp mechanism is flipping incredible so far!

July 4, 2023

Warp is on and tensioned. Adding brackets and heddle bar today.

July 7, 2023

Finally got to start hand knotting the rug.

July 7, 2023

First three rows complete.

July 18, 2023

Warp, left to right: (each knot requires 2 warp threads)
20 knots brown
20 knots green
20 knots brown
4 knots blue
20 knots brown
20 knots green
20 knots black
8 knots green
20 knots black
20 knots green
20 knots brown
4 knots yellow
20 knots brown
20 knots green
20 knots brown
4 knots blue
20 knots brown

Weft:
Brown 14 rows
Green 12 rows
brown 12 rows
blue 3 rows
brown 12 rows
green 12 rows
black 12 rows
green 5 rows
black 12 rows
green 12 rows
brown 12 rows
yellow 3 rows
brown 12 rows
green 12 rows
brown 12 rows
blue 3 rows
brown 12 rows

July 18, 2023

First brown panel done, rows 1-14

July 23, 2023

1.13% complete. This is going to be a forever project.

August 19, 2023

Starting section #3, brown.