19.07.13. I showed these photos to my friend and she loves it.

I discovered you could have two darks near the colour change, it does not have to be 2D/2L alternative. Perhaps I can remember to try it next time.

11.07.13. My friend wants the log cabin in these colours, so I ordered some 4-ply acrylic (she’s allergic to wool) and warped the Flip. And warping for log cabin proved back (and leg) breaking. The cutting of every other end… I began by cutting at the peg and tying at the beam, but then wised up and simply looped around the peg, went back, cut at the beam and rethreaded that end before tying it off.

Of course, the advantage was that since I was threading through the holes and slots, once I warped the width I wanted, I didn’t need to thread any more, just beamed it up and began weaving. So easy, yes?

No.

I managed to confuse myself again (that is happening way too often nowadays, perhaps it is early onset dementia). And wove the colours in the wrong order and wondered why the pattern wasn’t “popping”. After I wove 19” I realised my error.

So then I unrolled what I’d woven, pulled out the waste yarn and yay for non-fuzzy yarn, just untied the warp and pulled out the warp bit by bit. It goes easier if you put the heddle in the up position rather than the neutral, by the way. In no time at all, the warp was free and the weft lay in a tangle at my feet. No very tangled, luckily, and soon it was back on the shuttle.

I have since woven correctly back past the 19” mark. Whew. Now, as you can see, the log cabin pattern is popping.

Both warp and weft, 4-ply acrylic from Pradhan Stores, about 100g each colour. 10 dent heddle warped in a sequence of LDLDLDLD DLDLDLDL for about 188 ends, with LDLDLDLD on each edge. 100” each end. I tied knots for the fringe rather than twisting.