Had some exciting news last weekend, one of my bags has sold at the gallery! It was the red one in the middle, which was slightly surprising because I thought it was a lot less interesting than the others, but whatever does the trick. I mixed a tweed-ish red yarn with a slightly shiny purple for a tonal look. I’ll found out this weekend if I’ve made any other sales, but in the meantime I’m working on a new bag to replace the red one, since the sale is on until the end of this month.
Sticking with the purple from before for the weft, but with a orange-red-yellow variegated for the warp. I’m using the same ‘pickup stick behind the heddle to ‘save’ the pattern’ trick I learned in Inventive Weaving for some textural stripes, and the warp yarn will show little flashes of bright color in the light. I have until this Saturday to get it ready to sell.
Speaking of holiday gifts, I’m taking a stab at propagating my pothos plant. I had this dream of having a pothos on top of the 6 foot bookshelf in my living room that cascaded down the side, and now that that dream has com true I think it may be getting a bit heavy. I carefully trimmed it, and now I’m rooting the stems in water. Hopefully I’ll see some roots sprouting. Do you think (assuming I see some rooty action by New Years) it would make a good holiday gift? Part of me thinks it would be a burden on the intended recipient, giving them a gift that needs maintenance, but the intended recipient already has a healthy amount of houseplants and probably wouldn’t mind another. Not like it’s a puppy, right?