CottonCloud's Cottonwood leaf towel kit was waiting for too long.
As I am not fond of measuring warp and dressing the loom, it takes a lot of time for me to made up my mind. It seams I "overwaited". As a result I made three major mistakes that took two weeks to correct.
First of all I measured wrong number of 10 brown threads (6 instead of 16). However, I noticed this only after the loom was fully dressed. Initially I thought I miscalculated natural ones and this would only make my towels a bit narrower. No big deal.
Wrong! Big deal!
As I could not leave the warp as is, I decided to do everything properly and measured 10 more browns and was planning to add them to the left part of the warp, it's not that I need to re-dress everything.
Wrong again!
Somehow the threading did not work, it was supposed to end on Shaft 3 but it did not.
I recalculated all ends and realized that I had 2 extra ends in the middle, 307 instead of 305. Not a problem, just take them out. But still no match.
I checked every thread and every heddle twice, everything seemed to be correct, but still no match.
Two days later it finally came to me that I misread the threading chart. It had one thread at the end of the middle section for balance and I viewed it as part of the pattern and repeated it three extra times.
Happy end.
I am proud of myself for not giving up and finally having everything in order.
Oh,my...I can really relate to this. I have done similar things and it is horrifying to notice it so late in the game. I think that is why I am dragging my feet on my latest warp. I just know a disaster is waiting right around the corner. I can just feel it, espcially after I found out I had about 30 ends too many after threading.
ReplyDeleteWhat you have done is just beautiful. Good for you for hanging in there!
Your weaving sounds like it is going like my KNITTING! Hopefully MINE will get back on track soon. The weaving you are making is beautiful!
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