Decided to do this project from Handwoven Summer 2024. Using spirit yarn that came mostly from Hartnell’s dead weaving program.

First warp: This is the warp for what will become the chenille “yarn.” I used leftovers of carpet warp, crochet cotton, and a couple cones of similar sized cotton or cottolin. Based on comments from Kelli11’s project I avoided white in my warp (although I did use an old stained beige crochet cotton ball when I ran out of all my darker colors). The warp will show a little on the edges of the rug so I think the colors I chose will blend in with my weft yarns.

I made a 5 yard warp that is about 31” wide. I used a 12 dent reed, 4 ends per dent for two dents and then 10 empty dents. The original pattern called for a 15 dent reed, but I just used the 12 dent that I had. So my sett is slightly different.
Threaded all the threads individually as 4 shaft tabby. Can’t wait to get this wound on and get started! It’s already a stash buster just with the first warp!