How deep will this rabbit hole go ...

... because now, I am pretty far indide it :)

So, I saw a 32" Ashford Rigid Heddle come up for sale secondhand, and something inside me just bellowed 'BUY IT'... and you know how I like to keep my inner child as happy as I can :)

I've wanted to do a gradient based dyeing experiment for ages now... I see the beautiful work my fellow Indies post on Instagram, and they take my breath away. 
So I dug out some amazing Aran yarn I've been saving for a special project :) This yarn is British merino Aran, a yarn that cannot be repeated, as the year it was spun it was made from the finest wool of the whole British clip from that particular year...

I weighed it all out into 50g skeins, I dyed a total of 850g up... 
100g each of the solid colours (on the left) & 50g each (on the right) of 'transition' colours... basically 1/2 of each of the colours it is going to sit between. 
So... there isn't any crisp colour changes on the warp, the lines between the colours are 'blurred' :)

It turned out so well. It's a huge piece of fabric!

My edges still need a lot of work, as does my tensioning, but ever piece just improves these skills...

Deeper in I go...