kernology - where laurie and learning meet
  • Home
  • Blog
  • Pictures
    • Art & Craft >
      • Temari
      • Yubinuki
      • Quilting
      • Weaving
      • Lapidary Work
      • Metal Work 2010
      • Metal Work 2009
      • Classes - 2010
      • Classes - 2009
    • Boots
    • Views of Texas
    • Views of Scotland
    • Travel >
      • Bunny Bravehart Road Trips
      • Scotland 2012
      • Maine 2011
      • New Mexico 2010
      • Scotland 2008
  • Oh, the places you will go!
  • Contact Laurie

Finally, Weaving!

11/6/2011

 
I bought my new loom just about a month ago.  In the weeks following bringing it home from LA, my husband spent a few hours on and off cleaning the light rust off of the heddles and the shafts. 

While my husband was doing the cleaning, Yuko (my "student" at the Weaving Barn) and I were planning some future projects and we chose to start with two - a color gamp twill scarf using bamboo on 4 shafts and then cotton waffle weave kitchen towels on 4 or 8 shafts. Then we placed our BIG order with Halcyon yarn and waited for our cones to arrive. The 2 ounce min-cones arrived 2 weeks ago but some of the cotton is on back order which was ok since we were planning on weaving the scarves first.

Yuko and I spent a Saturday afternoon playing with color theory and what order we would use the colors (we both chose different colors than were in the pattern), then winding our warps for the Color Gamp Twill scarves. Since we are using 8/2 bamboo, there are 24 e.p.i. and across the scarf a total of 272 ends and 8 colors.

The next day, Sunday I started to wind the warp on to my loom. The first issue I ran across is that the lease sticks are too narrow to fit inside the loom BUT not wide enough to sit fully on the loom frame. I eventually, after much struggling, had to tape them together off center so I could tape it to the frame and wind it onto the back beam.  Once the beaming was done I was able to thread the open top heddles and then slay the reed and then tie onto the front beam. This entire process took over 6 hours. 

I did not touch the loom during the week because I figured once I got started, I would not go to bed early and I would be dead the next day at work - not that it really mattered but a girl needs her rest. 

When I got home that Friday, I started to check the threading of the heddles and reed. The scarf has a 6 inch fringe so I used paper to help spread the warp - I used 3 sections of heavy paper folded several times to be about 2 inches. I lifted every other shaft to give me plain weave and that is when I found my mistakes. I had some threads that had popped out of the heddles which are open at the top; some threads were in two heddles; others were threaded on the wrong shaft. Sorting all of this out took another 5 hours because I checked every single thread.

Last night, I actually wove after I got home from the barn. I wove in the the bottom selvage and the first color.  Just another 60 inches to go.

Comments are closed.

    RSS Feed

    About Laurie

    Laurie lives in central Texas with Erich, a.k.a. "the shop elf", her hubby of 35+ years and Cowboy Boots, the cat; her metals studio including 100+ hammers and 300+ chasing tools; her sewing studio which has a sewing machine, a closet filled with fabric, hundreds of skeins of embroidery floss and perle cotton, silk and other materials, and Mrs. King the dress dummy; two weaving looms, assorted knitting needles, tubs of yarn; lots of books; plus a plethora of geeky tech gadgets, computers, and more.

    Archives

    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    September 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    November 2011
    October 2011
    September 2011
    August 2011
    July 2011
    June 2011
    May 2011
    April 2011
    March 2011
    January 2011
    December 2010
    November 2010
    August 2010
    July 2010
    June 2010
    May 2010
    April 2010
    March 2010
    February 2010
    January 2010
    December 2009
    August 2009

    Categories

    All
    42
    Android
    Boots
    Bunny Bravehart
    Codesmith
    Comic-Con
    Covid
    Day Job
    Family
    Fencing
    Fiber
    Health
    Hike
    Jewelry
    Knitting
    Laurie
    Metals
    Minecraft
    Pandemic
    Photography
    Quilting
    Retirement
    Road Trip
    Scotland
    Sources
    Spinning
    Temari
    Texas
    The Big Walk
    Weaving
    Web
    Yubinuki

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.