I did my resolutions in reverse this year by setting goals in November to achieve by the New Year so I’m already ahead of the game.
Where I’m really screwing up is trying to weave. Yeah, I’m about four inches in on this royal mess.
Thinking about ripping it out to start over, maybe double up the warp. I’m obviously not sliding right, got it all messed up and bunched together. Maybe this is something blind people shouldn’t do.
Of course, I had to Google that… there are blind weavers. Drats, that blows my excuse. I’m just going to have to figure out how to make this work if I can’t see which threads I’m supposed to sliding over or under. It could be the tension or maybe my heddle strings are a tad too long. Instructions gave measurements for cutting them, but did not specify exactly how long the ends should be after their knotted. Thinking even an 8th of an inch doubled would affect the lift, make it open up a little wider for the shuddle.
Can you tell? I don’t know what I’m doing.
This first project is a cat mat, just a little rug for the studio cats, so it doesn’t have to be perfect. I could just keep on going.
Nah, I’m my mother’s child… time to pull the red bulky yarn out, crochet a new anchor spacer (double warp threads, evenly spread farther apart), and adjust the heddles… begin again. Happy 2022. Thanks for reading!
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Barnbees 