Spent most of the afternoon pressing, but did manage to get another placemat warp on the loom.
Wasn’t sure about the choice for hem colour so I wove a header with the hem weft, then an inch with the weft for the mat body. It looked okay, so I’ve gone ahead and wound bobbins so I can start weaving tomorrow.
Doug is going back to work Monday, still snuffling and sneezing, but feeling much better than he did on Friday. He spent much of the weekend watching the Olympics and loading up the boxes of yarn for Fibres West – coming all too soon. Just over four weeks, in fact. March 26/27 in Abbotsford, BC.
What that means is that we’ll have a living room filled with boxes for a month, but at least we’ve got a good head start on packing! :}
I’ve about run out of yarn for placemats, so once this warp is done – perhaps by tomorrow evening – I’ll start in on the painted scarf warps.
And I’ve figured out what will go onto the AVL – more tea towels, hopefully to use up the last of the 24 nm linen. That will still leave at least one cone of 12 nm linen, but I’ll get to that eventually, too. I know that Lynn has at least a couple more 12 nm cones of linen that she wants me to take away, so the tea towels are not done yet!
One of the things I need to do is get rid of more ‘orphan’ yarns. Little bits and pieces of yarn left over from other projects. Not enough to do a project with, but too much to throw/give away. So I may put a random stripe warp for tea towels or table runners onto the Fanny at some point to try and use some of that yarn up. Think Joseph and the Amazing Coloured Dream Coat.
We’ll see how it goes.
Currently reading Murder in the Hearse Degree by Tim Cockey