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10 Dent Heddle
6 1/2 inches in heddle
Plain weave
9 foot warp
Finished dimensions
7 feet long (not incl. 4 inch fringe at each end)
6 inches wide

loom waste about 10 inches after trimming it off the fringe.

Weighed ball, it had 103 grams. Divided into 50 and 53 gram balls. 50 grams for weft was set aside.

Further divided the 53 gram ball in half, stopped halfway through winding it and cut it, then wound the other ball.

Began warping a 9 foot warp from the middle out to the right until it ran out of yarn. Went back the to remaining ball of yarn and from the center pull, warped it from the center to the left. It probably didn’t matter too much with this ball, but may in future balls of sock yarn when I want to keep the patterning in sequence and use all the warp yarn up, but have it centered in the heddle. It is 6 1/2 inches in the reed.

I am using the remaining 50 grams as weft and trying to keep it in sequence. I wound up a shuttle broke the yarn and rewound it onto another shuttle to reverse it. I can put about 8-10 grams on a shuttle. For the second shuttle I used a ball winder and wound off 8 grams (by weighing the ball remaining as I go) and wound the shuttle from the outside of the ball (instead of the center) onto a shuttle so that it is reversed and the sequence will follow from the previous segment of yarn. (IN the end, I really didn’t need to keep the sequencing in the yarn since it was really varigated, so could have wound off onto the shuttle instead of reversing it.)

Wove in some paper towel and started weaving. My fell line was wavy and had a hump after an inch or so. The hump means that segment of yarn has looser tension. Sure enough, I hadn’t secured the surgeons knot with a bow, so it had loosened. I backed it up a little so I could get to the knot, untied it, pulled that section of warp a little more and retied it. Now its all straight. (A dip in the fell means that section of warp has too much tension).

All finished, came out nicely. Not sure about whether I should twist fringe not.