Everyone who begins to weave must make a scarf at first. It’s obligatory. I didn’t make one for my first project(s), but no matter. It’s not like I break many rules otherwise.

I’ve had this corn yarn in my stash since Deneen gifted it to me several years ago. While I loved the pale pastels, I couldn’t like how they worked up in knitting or crochet. The flat ribbon structure also didn’t quite appeal to me in either of those crafts.

But with weaving? Magic! Plus it looks as though I did something clever, when all I did was quite mechanical. (My husband wanted to know if perhaps the arm movements could be automated. To which I responded that I could go out and buy fabric at the shop, which is even quicker.)

The warp is the same nylon (?) “crochet thread” that Priya gave me and that I used in my Flowers of Uncertainty shawl. Took about an hour to warp. Next time, however, I will raise the loom to at least waist level, as bending down to the coffee table level is very hard on my back.

The brown paper roll for covering schoolbooks is working nicely as warp separator although I will have to look around for some other arrangement when I warp the full width (which seems to be around 26” rather than 25”).

I made good use of over an hour of powerlessness in the evening to weave by LED emergency light. I am now considering whether to warp and be ready for this evening as well.

I’m not obsessing about my selvages. And initially I tried to make sure the yarn ribbon lay flat and untwisted, but I found it didn’t matter. I was also apprehensive the pattern would change when I added my second skein, but it didn’t, not materially at least.

10 dent heddle
Warp: 100 ends, 99”, direct warped from a peg
Weft: All of 2 skeins (busted stash, yay!!)
Used the warp and weft calculator from the RHL group pages, but trying to work backwards since my weft yarn was definitely limited.