jerirossiter

Intended use:  This is homework for an exchange.  Requirement is >190 ends & "square" with enough samples for the six members of class.  At 360+ ends, I'm good for the first requirement if not the second.  At this point, I'm 3.5 samples into the quantity requirement.  I had hoped to have lots of warp left for a sample for Mom and G.Aunt.  Those may have to be on the next warp.

Badfaerie, If I understand what you're saying, the general recommendation is to set 8/2 at 16-20epi for plainweave and you'd recommend the 16 end of that range for overshot.  Since my warp is 20/2 I'd need the recommended sett for the thinner guage fiber. (My engineering roots are showing, aren't they?)  Are these specs online, or in a reference that needs to be in my library, or____?

The real bummer is that I sampled, and sampled and thought I had identified the right combination before I started.  Ah, c'est la vie. 

Ultimate goal:  unknown.  If I have another 160 heddles, I might redo the pattern at three repeats wide.  GGGGma 's original piece was in a bedspread.  My Baby Wolf is a bit small for that wide a project.  Thing is, pretty as this may be, it's NOT GGGGma's overshot.  I still have a bit more design work ahead of me. 

On the other hand, my selvedges are getting better and I've learned something really key:  Tabby is tied up at one side of the loom or the other (and not in the middle) to aid in the reduction of "sinkers".  I was accidentally using a float treadle for my tabby and getting a line of tabby weft running across the underside of my work.

Oh, and I'm working on a draft suitable for publishing.  A little more fiddling and then the right format for uploading and I'll get it out.