weave4fun

Whoop! Well, that's that warp done with. It was starting to do my brain in. I was getting a LOT of false lifts. When you just tie 8 lags onto a barrel, sometimes one or two of them take it upon themselves to twist slightly causing some of the shafts to not lift the first time. Which is immensely aggravating. But hey ho. Here's the final samples then. And my dog, who will do anything in her power to lie somewhere other than in her bed    

Had a wee holiday. Been back for a week. Took me ages to get threaded up but I got it done. Sadly the sett was all wrong. Far too dense, was causing it to be a very difficult warp to weave. Also, I like a balanced sett, especially when doing tartanish cloth, where it's fairly essential. So I cut it off and resleyed it at 60 epi, 30 for each face and got rid of the stitchers so each layer was completely seperated. It's much better now I think. In this picture you can see a weave that has 4 seperate lagchains, loaded on seperate barrels so they can be changed over relatively quickly. Also, my dog, in the woods, asking politely if I would please throw the stick, whenever I find time. No hurry like.

I seem to be getting a lot quicker at threading through. I did about 1600 threads today in 5 hours or so without getting a sore back. That's new. anyway, still have 800 threads to go, so a few hours tomorrow then an hour sleying the reed and another hour or two making peg plans. speaking of which... I shouldn't be having to do the whole peg-plan thing for much longer, if all goes well. I've been working pretty solidly over my easter break on coding for my dobby controller. It's a lot of fun, and I'm learning a lot in the process. I have my last 12 servos on order and am waiting to go into the city campus to borrow a servo controller for them. Until then I'm limited to 8 servos, as the Arduino apparently won't take more than that at any one time. How annoying. Oh well, I just have to wait a week or so and then I'm ready to go. Also, the week that I have to wait about for the guy who i'm borrowing the control board from to get back from abroad