Star Warps

Almost immediately after finishing the last project (that I still have to blog about!), which were a set of rugs for our apartment, we moved. Making curtains feels like a great way to not only learn a new weave structure or two since it's essentially weaving yardage, but it also feels like a great way of making this space truly our own. I'm planning on starting with curtains for the living room/office area because we spend a lot of time in this room, and while I absolutely love looking out my windows and into those of my neighbors (in a curious way, not a creepy way - I'm not Rear Windowing this at all ), I would also really like to feel like there's a smidgen more of a barrier between me and my neighbors. This is what the space those curtains are going to go into looks like. This space gets a lot of natural light and I want that light to come through the curtains so I was looking for something sort of gauzy and ran into a picture on Instagram from tesiapark that ...

Has anyone played the video game Worms? You're a team of worms and try to force another team of worms off an island with a bunch of ridiculous weapons like homing missles (that look like houses) and holy hand grenades (I can't remember if they count up to 3 or 5). When you're playing there is sometimes a crate that drops from the top of the screen with something helpful. Somewhere, a worm yells "reinforcements!" excitedly with a high pitched (think of a record moving too quickly) scottish accent. That's how I've been thinking of this adorable box of yarn from The Woolery . It's been a while since I've been this excited to start a new project! The adorable box is holding the rest of the yarn for the warp for the placemats. I've been incredibly busy at work, but things are about to settle down a bit and I think the warp might be on the loom by the end of the weekend. I started looking closer at the raddle and it seems some pegs are missing so ...