Part 1: I did a round with the new singles yarn from Maritime Fibers in Maine. The yarn is actually from Canada -- I bought it BEFORE Trump's tariffs kicked in. Whew! This yarn is going to work out very well for a coverlet. It has a nice hand, is NOT rough or picky like some wool can be.
The control was 17 inches x 6-1/4 inches.
The wet-finished sample shrunk down to 16 inches x 6 inches.
Now if I could just decide on a pattern!
After I cut this off the loom, I cut the sample in half. I kept 1 half as a control, because I wanted to compare it with the wet-finished sample.
You can see that it shrunk by about 1 inch. Don't worry -- that moves into texture and a 3D effect that is what we love in weaving after the magic of wet-finishing.
On the left is the wet-finshed sample. You can see the cotton has melded with all the other lines in the tabby weave-- They've become a team, all working together. As the tabby (white yarn) melds in the background, the blue pattern yarn can also puff up and do it's thing -- although it was sort of doing that already.
Here's another shot with a different orientation. The wet-finished sample is on top, and the control sample is on the bottom. It illustrates the same idea where the wet-finished side has transformed into a cohesive fabric.
