This is outrageous, of course, as someone who is half Norwegian on my father’s side. What would my granddad Pop-pop say? Probably “Those damned svedes!” He was never one to mince words, and those were his favorite 3. But I can explain! I am trying to plan out stripes using these colors for a new nursing shawl.
Cotton /Linen blend colors. (Yes, I am a geologist, That is a conglomerate counter top!)
I have eliminated the pink because all my other shawls have pink. Apparently I have a thing for that color. That’s news to me! So that has left me with the blue, yellow and natural. I found I point twill that I have been obsessing over and it uses all 8 shafts on my loom so I don’t have to feel guilty about shelling out for a loom with 8 shafts and only using two of them (again).
I did the “wrap test” for the colors and settled on something like this:
Color Design- analog
I like it well enough, but I’ve been working in excel all morning using my custom built-by-me weaving calculator to determine the actual design given the sett and number of ends in a single a pattern repeat. And I am just not thrilled with the results. You know how I was super excited because I am using all 8 shafts? Well that is making this twill pattern repeat 44 ends wide. That is about 2 inches per pattern and therefore, in my preplanned world, 2 inches per stripe. So I put this all in excel and scaled my column widths accordingly to give me the proportions visually and I just wasn’t super happy with it. So I started brainstorming different combinations and widths and one derivation was to play around with the thin yellow stripe. I like the idea of it on the edge of the blue as I bit of a twist on typical plaid striping, But I decided to move it into the blue stripe to see if it worked. And… viola…. I (accidentally) designed the Swedish flag. Sorry Pop-pop!
Color design- digital