Public Statement!

I do solemnly swear that I will clean my loom room as soon as I have this warp beamed, and BEFORE I weave a single throw! It's getting to me. Something has to break. Last night I searched through 4 containers looking for my crank handle and finally found it in plain sight on a table. In rummaging through the 4 containers (baskets, buckets of shuttles, etc.) I realized how much crap I have in those things that is completely irrelevant (now). So, cleaning next on agenda.

I am beaming a tea towel warp in 20/2 cotton. It's unusually slow because I wound some 10/2 cotton in for some of the stripes, but really, really hated how it was feeling in my hands as I roughsleyed the reed. I should have come to that conclusion BEFORE I wound it on the board, but... So, I wound some 20/2 in another color to replace the 10/2, and am cutting the 10/2 out of the warp bouts as I wind on. Fun, fun.

I haven't decided yet on a modified twill or straight twill or plain weave for the threading. That will be after I get the studio cleaned! ;-) It should be a pretty piece at any rate. I'm going to have to figure out how to post photos and get one up of this warp. Last night, while it was taxing my patience, I thought, heck with tea towels, I'm making a shirt out of this. Too much work for tea towels! and I may weave some of it into yardage for a shirt if the sample is light weight enough.

Sunday I sewed worms for the Hammett warp and that's ready to roll - as soon as the studio is cleaned. Lots to do when I get back from Galena this weekend.

Currently reading: The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon