Current weaving-related things! Dead simple inkle weaving, intended
for a demo that I ended up not attending because I woke up more tired
than I went to sleep, and that seemed like a sign.
Next, the
completed scarf/sample, complete with ineptly hemstitched ends (I didn’t
feel like tying tiny knots in the warp threads. Not convinced
hemstitching was faster or less fiddly, to be totally honest).
And a
beautiful, perfect, completely deceptive photo of what appears to be a
neatly set-up loom. It’s not. I did a bad thing and worked on that warp
pretty much all weekend, and at the end of the day on Sunday looked at
it, having just finished threading, and thought, “I should just wind
that on and then it’ll be all ready for me to weave tomorrow.” Fatal
mistake number one. And then I couldn’t find any sticks long enough to
fit under the whole warp, nor any paper to wind between the layers, and I
thought, eh, it’ll be
fiiiiiiiiiiiiine. Fatal mistake number
two. Having wound the whole (5ish yard) warp on, I realized that the
threads at the edges were significantly longer than the center ones. Thought, oh, I must have measured this more inconsistently than I
realized. Thought, I’ll just tie these onto the cloth beam and trim off
the extra. Thought, it’ll be
fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine. FINE. TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY FINE. I’ll give you three guesses what it was not when I looked at it again on Monday.
Fine. Fine is what it was not.
So
I unwound the whole damn thing and am now adding lengths of warp to the
(now too-short) threads, and I will finally be winding it back on
tonight,
with paper between the layers (there are still no sticks long enough in the studio to use) and by god, I’m going to
weave.
A whole
week of unlimited access to my mentor’s studio while she’s
out of town, and I waste three-quarters of it making a very very very
dumb mistake.
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