Weaverly

Windows and Things

This morning I snuck onto the construction site across the street (please don't tell anyone) and found a few irresistible tidbits.

The appeal of the following two images will be apparent to you if you have ever kept a sketchbook of your weave structures or warp calculations. 

I've been taking a few days off from actual weaving, but I can't resist a draft or two on the computer. This 8-shaft draft is doubleweave with two-color warp and same for weft.

I love the cloth simulation view in TempoWeave. 

And in the Department of Books:

Just finished reading Grendel by John Gardner.

Small Things

Most of my friends are looking for some antidotes to dark emotions this week. Maybe you are the same. I here offer some of my choices:

This fantastic bloom from a loved one's front yard…

Rosemary's cookies from Wednesday's study group meeting…

My growing collection of samples of that weird 4-end block draft thingie I have been working on…

I also want to mention the hardboiled eggs we had for breakfast with shells that were easily peeled because I doused them with ice cubes immediately after they got out of the pot. Sorry, no pictures of that wonderful event.

But here is the latest warp finally on the loom, with four (FOUR) threading errors detected and corrected. Definitely worth gratitude…

And last and best of all, the yarn choice for the weft is coming out at exactly 15 ppi, just what I was aiming for…

Ance since you've read this far, here's a glamour shot of the actual weft color in play. The mysterious blocks are showing up. Yay!

Feeling better yet? I am.

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Just finished reading:

Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières, My Life in Middlemarch: a Memoir by Rebeccfa Mead, The Words Between Us by Emily Bartels.

Holding My Breath

A Day in History. An eerie sort of silence. Holding my breath. Thinking about things that are within my control and then the other things. The former group is very small. 

I continue to weave samples of that crazy 3-end block system. And on days when there is no weaving, for various reasons, I sit at my computer and devise new color schemes. When I first started experimenting with this particular 3-end system, I thought it would work only for 4 shafts, but I am now discovering that I can push it to 8. Here are a few early what-ifs. 

Have just finished reading My Life in Middlemarch: A Memoir by Rebecca Mead