Started with a practice band to get familiar with the Inklette borrowed from Heddi. Used a draft I found on YouTube (The Osebeberg Weave) and 8/4 cotton rug warp in gold, peach and red. Finished it off the night before my class in my room at Asilomar.

At class we warped for another band and I ended up using one of the teacher (John Mullarkey’s) looms. He felt the weaving distance on the Inklette was too small for card weaving. The first project we warped for is a “threaded in” design. In this type of weaving the placement of the colored threads is what creates the color pattern. All cards are turned the same way.

The second band (red and turquoise) was warped for weaving diagonals. The same type of warp can be used for the double weave that I did previously. But it takes a different set up of the home position. There are two colors on each card with the same colors adjacent to one another. Cards can be turned all together in one pack forwards and backwards to make “lazy waves” and in packs to create other designs.

We started with the horizontal lines, just to get width and check that all was well. Then made the Lazy Waves and then did free form weaving where we could randomly change packs of cards and the directions that each pack was moving.

The last day we started doing other diagonal patterns and I struggled to keep good track of my card packs and where I was. So when I got home I warped a new warp on the Inklette and was able to concentrate and do it right. For my size hands, and with smaller cards, I don’t find it too small to weave on. I wanted to solidify the warping experience in my mind. I wove until it was wine time. This is “weaving for thinking, not weaving for drinking!”

Threaded in weaving requires more thinking and time to warp, less thinking and time to weave.
Diagonals requires more thinking and time to weave, but the warping is pretty easy--especially if you have a third hand!