Finally finished warping my loom for a new set of kitchen towels, in the "Martini" color scheme. Warping took a long time, and I have been knitting more lately, so I didn't do much weaving this summer. I found out the problem with the plain weave ends of the towels, which I mentioned in my last post. Some threads were not getting caught and I couldn't understand why. I even diagrammed the weave structure on graph paper to see if it was really plain weave, and it was, so I was stymied. It wasn't until I started weaving this next set and could see which threads weren't getting caught.Want to know what it was? You won't believe it. IT WAS A TIE-UP ERROR!!! I couldn't believe it myself, but I had tied the 1&4 treadle to 1&3. I must have been in such a rush to tie the pedals up to make the wedding gift, and there are 6 different pedal configurations for this weave. Wow. I was glad to fix that one. Now my plain weave ends will be nice & easy to hem. Whew!
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WHEN
do you find time
to do such GORGEOUS weaving.
My DH is annoyed by the sound so that rules out evenings...
And lovely color choices too!
Heather
Thanks! Yeah, my loom is pretty noisy. Luckily, it is at one end of the house & the DH's hobby room (historical war gaming) is at the other end, so that's not a concern. I normally weave on weekends, and I don't have children (or a podcast to do), so I have a bit more free time than you do.
Can't take credit for the color choices, they came with Halcyon's pattern.
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