Where did the time go? After I get off here I am going to try and get a bit of weaving in this evening. I have been weaverly and procrastinatings all at the same time! the pile of hemming I was going totackle this month is still sitting there waiting for me. But I think I can get the never ending towel warp off the loom by the 31st. Phew! Come on my little arachnisds - let's weave away this last week!

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Queezle

But that mainly pertains to you all, as I am in Washington DC on business.  But I will be back to it on Wednesday.

endorph

woven last night. I am determined to get this warp finished this month. The stack of hemming will just have to wait. It's been waiting months and in some cases years, so it can wait a bit longer. . . .

Queezle

OK, arachnids.  I returned to SLC today, and spent the past 2h unweaving a towel I wasn't happy with , and substituting a softer spun 8/2.  I've woven two complete repeats - I think its better than the 5/2 pearle. 

endorph

I managed to get about 5-6 inches woven last night. I can see my last round of warping sticks so the end is near!

theresasc

this month went.  I managed to finish nothing!  I did get the mistake fixed on my tapestry and have that weaving well again.  I also dressed two looms:  Kessenich floor loom has a run of tote bags on it and weaving, and Glimåkra has some hopefully fast and easy rag placemats on and weaving.  I had to get something back on the Glimåkra once I finished the inaugural run of towels.  I had to figure out something for just 2 shafts since I sent one of my lamms off to be replicated and I didn't have enough lamms for something 4 shafts.  Rag placemats fit the bill.  Maybe I can quickly finish something up before the end of the month.

theresasc

you are doing on your towels.  The new weft really works well.

theresasc

So I was trying to weave on the rag placemats tonight and all the sudden I had broken ends in the strangest places, too many to try to fix.  I unwove the rag picks, cut the sassy, haunted warp off the loom, wound another, beamed it, threaded it, and as I am sleying it - ends are breaking from just using my sley hook.  I have a rotten cone of black carpet warp, or actually a cone of rotten black carpet warp - grrrr!  Two warps shot.  I just didn't think it was the yarn, a spell was cast on my ability to reason.  I was attributing my troubles to the loom being new to me and not the yarn.  So I am done with fiber tonight for tomorrow is another day (imagine a very dramatic facial expression).

Queezle

or rather cursing warp.  I realize in retrospect that I have had good luck with yarn.  But recently I purchased 8/2 cotton from WEBS, in white, and I've had 3 spots where the warp has broken.  The brand-new yarn is not robust.  Mine, with only 3, I can just repair.  But its a good lesson to actually do a snap test before measuring. Theresa, I wish you a good and restorative night's sleep, and a great day tomorrow.

 

I am back at my squiggly column dish towels, and have to say that I am really enjoying this.  I can somehow find a rhythm OK despite using two shuttles, and I am pleased with the pattern.  It reminds me a bit of brich or aspen trees, with their white bark and dark lenticels.

 

And my walking loom is more-or-less working, and once I got over the mental block of switching to a walking treadling, I managed to get about 10 inches woven on that warp.  This is all good, because it means I can go back to my favorite thing - planning the next projects!

endorph

inches woven last night. I can do this, I CAN finish this warp before midnight Monday!I figure if I say that often enough it will come true.

Sorry to hear about the warp issues Theresasc. Hang in there.

endorph

was going to be the last towel on the unending warp and , surprise! I think I will get another short towel out of it. Sigh. . . SO I am using up quills and making a satriped towel. Unfortunately most of the bobbins I have are wound with darkish cotton so it iwillbe a dull towel but it will still work as a towel!

endorph

finished a towel on this warp from hell and there is still warp to go. . . I think it is a magic warp and keeps mutiplying on me. I may be wrong, but I am pretty sure that when I had this warp wound out, I had it done for 6 towels, I am now halfway through towel number 8. . .  Granted nearly 2 and a half years have gone by since I put this warp in the MW, but really. . . 8 and maybe 9 towels. . . .? So it is not getting finished tonight. But I did manage to get it much farther along than it was and I picked out the yarn for my color challenge, so Halloweave was not a total loss.

Yarnsnthreads (not verified)

I so know what you mean. I finished up my Tencel scarves tonight. I thought I had warp for 3. I ended up with 4 long scarves. I am happy to say they are now off the loom and drying my bathroom. I will post pictures when they are dry and trimmed.

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