Mon 16^th – Fri 20^th April, 2018

     The priority after Easter was to focus on my weaving and creating samples. After trying to plan sample design over Easter and not having much luck, I decided to try just working with tartan designs first rather than trying to incorporate too many elements with my blocks (threading up plan). The tartan designs I planned all ended up quite busy with lots of stripes. Although these look really nice and represent my drawings well (which inspired my samples) I think it would be nice to have some plainer or more simple ones as a comparison. It will also be interesting to see how this works with my warp since that on its own is extremely busy. I have found planning the plainer samples more difficult – I think the best way to try and move forward with them would be to do more drawings from our primary research and see if these can help to influence in any way. I do however feel as though I am working well with our colour palette in terms of my warp. In addition to this I started to test some gingham weft ideas which unfortunately haven’t turned out very nicely and I probably won’t use but was worth trying to see if it complimented my warp.  Next week I hope to continue with the more simple designs and test some thicker yarns to see if it works with my warp or if they will look to chunky – I definitely feel I’m at a point where I need to become more experimental with my weft.