Workshop Getting-ready!

Still working on getting my loom ready for the JOY workshop. (Just Our Yarn)

This is going to be a beautiful warp!

Getting ready to wind on the back. I am going front to back.

Now I am checking the pattern for errors! 

Workshop starts in June. 

Workshop - Anyone?

I am excited to be attending a workshop put on by "Just Our Yarn" in early June. We are going to get to see some great yarns and have fun too! This will be a round-robin and my draft is an advancing twill. So I will get this party started....

I am winding the 20/2 tencel warp

I am using a dental looper to thread my 30 dent reed for 60 epi!

Heddle Eye

The next phrase of this advancing twill adventure continues. I have begun to thread the heddles. This may take a day or two, or three.

It is interesting to me that at first glance this yarn is smooth, but get close up and it's fuzzy. My heddles are showing their age, but since they work just fine, I will keep them as is. 

Weaving Prep Work for Snowflake Twill

So I finally finished the warping and now I have the threads pulled through the reed. I am using 8/2 cotton sett at 18 epi. I have dented 1-2-1-2 in my 12 dent reed.

Looks like I need to replace my ruler on my shuttle race. 

Another thing I need to do before I can throw that first pick is to count out my heddles and get them balanced across my heddle frame. My Macomber loom has hanging heddle frames, so it is important to get a balance on it. 

I have started counting out the heddles I will need for this project. Here I am using a paper clip to hold back the heddles not needed. 

New Project - Advancing Twill

I have never tried to weave a snowflake draft (advancing twill). I was wanting something to weave for my long kitchen table, to use some 8/2 cotton, and weave white on white. This project just might fit the bill. I found the draft in the Nov/Dec 2012 Handwoven magazine. The article is by Lyn Lucas and seems to be very straight forward and understandable. Or at least to "my" little gray cells.

I have just started winding my warp. Here I am showing you how I count on my warping board. When I get 50 ends, I snug them with a looper. This is showing I have 100 ends wound. A group of 50 ends and the other five groups spaced out.  (I am not at the beginning where my cross is, but at the end peg.) I learned this little trick from Jeff the Warpped Weaver!

Oh, and here is the photo in the magazine. I am going to use 8/2 cotton in warp and weft. No sparkling, just using up this 7 lb pound cone of 8/2 cotton I bought last year. I have a couple of other project going, so this may be a 'slow cloth' kind of project, or I might just get in gear and finish next week. Who knows? I weave just for fun!