02-16-2023

Dyed yarn on to cones. All the warp wound. Now sleying; I’ll be warping front to back, as I wound a separate warp bout for each stripe color.

Got 2 inches sleyed (total of 47”), then carefully bundled everything up, and went home. Tuesday, yeah. Then I’ll have to count and rearrange heddles, as I moved on to a wider Bergman countermarch.

03-03-2023

Finished sleying yesterday. Took forever. Tried to keep each color bout on its own layer; we’ll see how well I did after I thread and wind on.

03-22-2023

FINALLY finished threading. One thing I don’t like much about FtB is that if one makes a sleying error, there will be resleying after beaming on.

03-23-2023

Whoohoo! Beamed on! I needed to recreate a proper cross for tension, and the warp was so wide that I recruited everyone in the studio to hold it taut so we could open a couple of plainweave sheds and slide in some lease sticks. Swedish loom dressing!

Beaming on still took awhile, but Jerry helped, and it looks great. Now fixing the known sleying errors, then I’ll track down the ones that showed when we opened the sheds to install the lease sticks.

03-30-2023

Finally all resleyed. Kept finding more doubles after starting to resley and I really did look very closely at it! Must have resleyed everything twice! BUT, while at it, found some crossed threads and threads not in the heddle eye and fixed them. Not to say there still aren’t errors, but it is a LOT closer.

Snitched onto the cloth stick; tidying up the tension next trip in.

04-06-2023

Tidied up the tension. Spread the warp. Tidied the tension again. Found and fixed a couple of sleying errors and 2 threading errors - one an easy fix; swap two adjacent heddles, one requiring the sacrifice of a Texsolv heddle (oops)

Started weaving. Some sheds got icky. Melody R went under the loom; I pressed treadles. Bit by a Bergman setup bug - depending on how the lamm to shaft connection is done, one apparently runs the upper lamm cord in front of or behind the corresponding lower lamm; the opposing side from the lamm to shaft connection. Your Bergman tip for the day. I’ll re-do the tieup when I go in next; it was already later for me.

Melody also suggested longer shuttles (warp is about 47” wide). I’ll give one a go and see if I like it. Other ones like that which I have used are “catchy”, in that the warp does not spool off nicely. Stay tuned.

05-03-2023

Off the loom yesterday. Ran a line of stitching around it and washed it. Wonderful texture. Took it to the fabric store to pick out fabric for binding, but they closed at 5pm and kicked me out. The stack of possibilities is waiting for me and they open at 10am.

05-07-2023

Went back the next morning and picked a fabric which was none of the above

Turned it into bias binding. Machine sewed on the first side, now hand-sewing the other side. It is wider than I usually make for quilts and presents interesting challenges at the corners.

05-09-2023

And finished. Happier with the binding now that I’ve pressed it.

Definitely twin bed size.