Its been a while since I warped my 36" Baby Wolfe Floor Loom. However, two days ago I set about winding some 112 warp threads on my warping board, so that I could warp my loom and get back to weaving.
I had some small skeins of Majestic Sky Merino Silk that I had put aside for myself a while back. I decided that it was time to use them for something and weaving a nice blue wool/Silk scarf was what I was going to weave.
I decided that since I hadn't wove anything in a while that the best, thing to do was to start with a plain weave. So I threaded each warp thread, through the heddles in a 1, 2, 3, 4 pattern across using all 112 threads. Then I tied off the threads on the back apron rod and then went around to the front and held onto the warp threads as I wound the warp around the back beam. Once I had that done, I then began tying off the threads on the front apron rod. Then I tightened up the warp, just enough to have some tension.
Yesterday, I finished tying off the warp threads and started weaving. First I wove a header in with a plastic bag. Then I picked up my wooden shuttle and wound some Majestic Sky Merino/Silk onto it. When I had that done I began weaving and boy did it ever feel good to be back at my weaving loom weaving again.
The amount you see woven, is what I did yesterday. I probably would have wove more if the heddles that I had removed from my loom and put in a box on the top of my loom hadn't fallen off and scattered all over my rug and on the peddles. I had to stop and play heddle pick up, so that I would have bent heddles.
Today I went back to my weaving and now have the apron rod up and over the front beam. Weaving with my own handspun wool feels great and so far looks pretty good. I'm looking forward to finishing this project and starting on another one. Its great to be back weaving at my loom again.
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