Category: broken thread
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Beginnings. Endings.
From time to time I see (what I assume to be) new-ish weavers lamenting that the yarn package they are working with has a knot in it. Or they try to come up with a way to make ‘endless’ warps so that they don’t have to keep re-dressing their looms. Generally I sigh and…
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Plans, Best Laid
So, I had a plan. It was a good plan. I was pleased with myself for coming up with said plan. Until I got to the loom. Plan A was sort of what I wanted, but it wasn’t weaving up in a way that made me happy. I couldn’t seem to work out the technical…
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Fix
I know I’ve posted about this before but thought that it is time to revisit it because it is just so darned clever! First learned this from Kerstin Fro:berg… Although I try to remove knots from the yarn as I wind a warp, sometimes they aren’t obvious, or sometimes, as with this very textured yarn,…
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Void, Voided
click photo to biggify So much for a nice stretch of purely studio deadlines. Between my mom and both of us, we are having Life Happening. It started with Doug’s surgery to fix an annoying problem, then my putting my back ‘out’. Mom is having some health issues and between the three of us we…
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Afghan Progress
Sunday I started weaving on the afghans. With this warp it is essential to use a temple. I really wish I had rotary or ring temples when I’m weaving full width, and perhaps after Convergence I will. At least I’m hoping Fireside will be there so I can look at their temples. I hear a…
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Who’s That Tapping?
So I had a little oopsie while beaming the tea towel warp. Well, more than one, but I’ll only discuss one here! One of the ends snagged on the S hook holding the water jug and broke about 2 yards from the end. Then I couldn’t find the other end – no doubt buried in…
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Who’s That Tapping?
So I had a little oopsie while beaming the tea towel warp. Well, more than one, but I’ll only discuss one here! One of the ends snagged on the S hook holding the water jug and broke about 2 yards from the end. Then I couldn’t find the other end – no doubt buried in…
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Who’s That Tapping?
So I had a little oopsie while beaming the tea towel warp. Well, more than one, but I’ll only discuss one here! One of the ends snagged on the S hook holding the water jug and broke about 2 yards from the end. Then I couldn’t find the other end – no doubt buried in…
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Broken
Bad things happen. Threads break. It’s especially annoying when they break during sectional beaming, because I don’t always notice right away. This is what happened here. I’d wound on several turns before I twigged a thread had broken. 🙁 What I do in this instance is re-thread the offending end through the tension box, loosely…