Okay, so now I'm definitely in love with yardage, and started to wrap another warp with this stuff, thinking I'd try out a fine gauge: Fail. I didn't even empty one of those little spools. I didn't like the way the thread cut into my fingers…I just felt like a slave to it, with no sensual return. Gave it away, and cut the wrapped warp off my warping board. Onto cushy colorful DK cotton, for playing in unbalanced twill structures! Continue reading No tiny gauge, please
Began with 5.5 yards of warp (that's the max length of my warping board), ended up with 4 yards, 30" total length, so that's 24" of loom waste. The finished piece averages about 32" wide. Yarns: All of the dark brown weft is alpaca that I spun myself. This is about two pounds-worth. I learned that I don't really like spinning, and have just sold my spinning wheel, so I'll be forced to do the medieval thing and actually buy my yarn henceforth. The blue warp is also alpaca, but commercial. The orange warp is handspun, but sheep, and not by … Continue reading First big weaving project done