I like Cally Booker!   Well, I should first say I’ve never actually met Cally Booker, I lurk around and read her blog, and hero worship from a distance.  But I really really like her!

I want to assure you that I am in no way  near her league of weaving expertise, but we are, at least this month, thinking along the same lines.

I don’t know if you do this, but by the time I’m halfway thru a project…my mind wanders…and I start planning what to do next.  And in the midst of my ugly hipsters scarfs…which are finished and just as ugly as I expected…  I started looking thru my weaving books and thru Pinterest for a new idea.   This is what caught my eye in Strickler’s book…

Look at those sweet squares!    But I didn’t want all the squares to be the same color…and I have this lovely yarn by Freia that I was going to knit a scarf with….this scarf actually…pattern is on ravelry…

This yarn has incredibly long color changes and I wanted a visible color change of my little squares… and I like both the balls.. so how could I do this?   Weave a row of squares and then change shuttles and weave a row of the other ball?  But still the color change would be sooo slow… and then would I have to cut the yarn every color change?   Aggghhhh!

Oh! But wait!  What if I do a clasped weft? That way I can use both balls, one shuttle,  and the color change will be twice as fast!  Wow!  This should work…I might be kinda brilliant!

Almost as brilliant as Cally Booker…cause in the midst of my three day musing on how to do this…this is the project she posted on her blog:

She did a dyed warp in the center to get her color shifts, and I have no idea what weave structure that is, but don’t they look like similar ideas?  I can’t believe it,  I’m thinking like Cally Booker!