I am doing my first "real" weaving project on my brand new Mighty Wolf. I have taken several weaving courses and done lots of practice weaving and samples. My first mistake was when I mashed up in my mind two different projects. I have 8/2 cotton I bought at The Mannings in various shades of green, and a really big cone of white. Instead of starting with a reasonable warp, I got into my head that I was winding on 9 1/2 yards of warp. I have a warping mill but I obviously had to do the warp in sections because 18'' at 24 epi was not going to fit on a home sized warping device. The cotton tangled terribly (it was in center-pull hanks, not cones) and was prone to nasty slip knots. It took forever to wind out. I got it attached to the loom and all its stripes evenly distributed and then for some reason I removed the choke ties and the raddle and tried to beam it on (BTF). Now the fun is beginning. I quickly realized I needed the raddle back on and it is (dropped about 17 times in the process) and the warp is somewhat untangled and weighted. I am using venetian blind slats between layers on the warp beam and hope the weights are sufficient to get an even warp. I've wound on about half of it but looking at the tangled mess left wonder how I'm going to get a smooth path to the cross (still there and tied!). Any hints on getting theis warp untangled? I know you're not supposed to comb, but really if I don't there's going to be mixing of greens.
Carol