Category: fixing threading errors
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#efficiencyfail
I knew I was tired. I knew I was distracted. I knew my mental faculties were less than sharp. And once again I overestimated my capabilities! Instead of marking off my draft as I completed each section, I relied on my dulled brain to follow the draft, so when I reached the end of the…
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Distractions Galore
More distractions today, starting with a panicked phone call at 4 am from the other mother. Poor Doug wound up having to deal with getting her situation sorted out as well as battling through with the work to be done on mom’s house. We should know tomorrow if the buyer will wait until the work…
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Math and Me
Math has never been my long suit – not even simple arithmetic. Every once in a while I make a truly magnificent oopsie. Weaving dishes up another serving of humbility pie! Knowing that I’m not good at crunching numbers, I actually worked through the equation of how many ends I needed for this warp for…
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Lesson in Humbility
It doesn’t do to get complacent – that’s when you stop thinking. This warp is 36 epi. I have a 9 dent reed, but it’s very old and rough on the top and bottom so when I checked my stored reeds I noticed that I also have a brand new metric reed (35) which is…
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Fixing A Threading Error
I started weaving on this Summer and Winter warp and only after messing about with the cloth advance for a while, cutting off, re-sleying and started weaving again did I realize that I’d had a brain cramp while threading and that 3 units were threaded onto the incorrect shaft. When you have a threading error…