While Doug and his helper worked at the other end of the studio, I wove on the Fanny, thinking hard about where the heck I was going to put All The Stuff. Next to me sat the Woolhouse Margaret, a loom that I, personally, haven’t used in too many years to count.
Not that it isn’t a good loom, for what it is – 24 shaft lever loom. It’s just that I haven’t needed to use it in ages. When I first got it, I actually used it quite a lot. At the time I didn’t have a small loom so the Margaret was something I could use to weave quick samples for the AVL or even do things beyond what I could do on the 16 shaft AVL. And I did use it, quite a lot in fact, for everything from 2/40 linen through to rayon chenille.
One of the things I intended was for it to be my retirement loom. But now? Now I have the Megado and really if I want to keep weaving, which I do, I’d rather do it on the Megado. With my whiplash injuries using the Margaret with its levers arrayed across the front even gets to be problematical.
So, as I sat weaving on the rayon chenille which only required surface attention, ruminating about where the heck I was going to put All That Stuff and the Woolhouse kept snagging the corner of my eye.
Finally I sighed and made the inevitable decision – it was time to sell it.
So.
