Sleepless medium-width band

This band is called "sleepless" because I warped it and started weaving while (1) under the influence of jet lag, and (2) on vacation with my sister and her new boyfriend in a motel with thin walls.  (Let's skip over the details on both counts, okay?)

The photo of the weaving in progress actually shows the very end of the weaving.  It started out set up on a backstrap loom:  two sticks to hold the warp at the "far" end, the heddle in the middle, and two sticks at "my" end to attach to my backstrap.  At the very beginning, I wove these yarns as a warp-faced band, and though I really liked the strong colour-play between the green and sunny-bright yarns, the band felt thicker and more cushiony than I wanted -- so I gradually spread the warps out to a weaving width of 4 inches and wove the rest of the band at that width.

Partway along in the weaving, my new Cricket loom arrived by UPS -- and 45 minutes after the nice man had knocked on the door with the box, I'd put the loom together, beamed my in-progress warp onto its warp beam, tied onto the front apron rod, and started weaving!

The beaming was wildly imperfect (as I think you can see in the photo), and between that and the thickness of the yarns, I had the impression the Cricket was a little bit short, front-to-back, and not capable of providing a very generous shed.  (With subsequent warps, I've changed my opinion.  The shed is still not generous, but it's big enough to work just fine!)

So there it is.  The irregularities of my irregular warp beaming show in the finished band (warp threads wander a little, even after wet-finishing) -- but I like it anyway.  At one point while weaving, I'd thought I'd cut this band up into mug rugs.  I'm now thinking it will donate its sunny colours to a cushion cover for our living room!