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I stayed up past 1 AM last night finishing warping my loom. I did a shortcut on the warp, and it definitely did not wind on like butter, as it should have. It wasn’t horrible, but I now know not to take that particular short cut!

Once complete, I wove a couple of shots of plain tabby to check my warp.

See that bit of ugliness on the left? Despite triple and quadruple checking my warp, I still made that stupid mistake. I put 1 thread through one heddle, and 3 in the next, instead of 2 each. (This had nothing to do with my shortcut, by the way.) While this will even out in the wash once it is off the loom, it still bothers me.

After a good night’s sleep, I decided to unweave and fix the warp. The good news is that the error was in the reeds only, so it was easy to unweave, and fix the problem from the front of the loom.

The fix is on the right. It makes me much happier. Onward to the tie ups.

Tech Specs: 8/2 cotton, alternating green and white; 20 epi on 10 dent reed.

On the first day of class, I wove this…

Warp: alternating kid mohair/silk boucle and mohair
Weft: rambouillet
Sett: 6 epi
Warp width: 10″
Off the loom: 72″ long (sans fringe), 9″ wide
After wet finishing: 68″ long, 7″ wide

I spent the rest of the session working on my gamp, also known as a sampler.

This is 8/2 cotton. I didn’t calculate my sett (12 epi) correctly, and this is more of a weft faced fabric instead of balanced weave. It was hard to get a good beat on it where the pattern shows clearly, so I just started playing around with my treadling. I particularly like the columns in the bottom left photo. I played with different versions. I think there is promise there. I wrapped it up with just plain tabby. After washing, I might be able to sew up a couple of squares to go under vases and such.

I have already started warping on another gamp with 20 epi.