After spending two solid days preparing the green and black warp, I discovered three threading errors. They were not the kind for which you can throw in a few repair heddles and forge ahead. A total cutoff and rethreading was necessary.
Then I wove a few inches on the corrected threading, and discovered two new denting errors! Oy vay.
Time to get my ducks in a row.
No more sleeping on the job.
So yesterday I was busy as a bee.
No rest for the weary.
I'll never thread another black warp, she said. Never say never.
I absolutely wanted this warp, black and olive green, end and end, so I ignored my previous prohibition and wound it anyway. It went on the beam very smoothly, and here it is ready for threading.
Lo and behold, it was not that difficult. Something about the haptics of selecting the threads from the cross. Maybe it was muscle memory. Whatever it was, the threading and denting went quickly
Yesterday, after a few technical issues with TempoTreadle, which were quickly ironed out by the good folks at LoftyFiber, I was ready to go. It's a parallel or interleaved threading, aka echo weave, woven as doubleweave on 8 shafts.
Taking a break from the studio, I walked around the lake in spite of the drizzle. It was quite refreshing.
At the Sustainability Center the little black & white cat was as friendly as ever. She appears to be quite interested in tomatoes.
Stopping for groceries on the way home I was stopped in my tracks at the bakery display, where a new batch of cakes had just been put in the refrigerated case. I didn't buy any of these, but I was sorely tempted by that chocolate ganache in the bottom row.
The pink warp was cut off yesterday. It looks very ho-hum in its unwashed state.
Nothing like this wonderful picture which inspired it. This is a draft from Pyysalo & Merisalo, "Hand Weaving Patterns from Finland." I altered the draft slightly.
But after washing & drying, the fabric assumed its true state, with active curves & hollows. I wove four placemats and a very long table runner, pictured here.
The "wrong" side is very interesting, too, quite unexpected.
My universe seems to be in tune this week. This slightly coral-toned pink is showing up all over.