MY WARPING BOARD EATS YARN

Posted by Peg in South Carolina

At least it sure feels like it does.  I had run out of yarn and so dyed some more. I figured roughly how much more I needed and dyed the yarn.  

I should never never never trust calculations I make in my head.

I had calculated roughly 500 more yards.  Using my head.

This time I decided to use a calculator.  Using a calculator shows I need a minimum of 935 more yards.  That means I probably needed to have dyed roughly 1800 yards.  Not 500 yards…..

So now I  have to cone off another white skein, then from the cone wind a skein for dyeing and then dye.

I do have some more colors I want to dye for weft, so I will make the calculations for that and dye them at the same time. 

I am looking for red-violet weft yarns that are brighter than those that I have dyed.  To the left is an example of the brightest.  Deep and rich, which I like, but I also would like some brighter versions.  Not psychedelic.  Just brighter.

That might finish my dyeing for this piece.  Unless I decide to use tabby.  Then more dyeing.

Next week is a terrible time to find a block of time to dye in.  I do NOT want to wait another week before I can start getting this warp on the loom!

Jeezzzz……………………..

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“My Warping Board Eats Yarn” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on February 5, 2010. ©2009 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.

A NEW TIE-UP FOR 6-SHAFT CRACKLE

Posted by Peg in South Carolina
I learned early on in my weaving life about the magic of re-arranging the tie-up to make for easier treadling. But my learning stopped dead right there.
When I belonged to the Chattahoochee Handweavers Guild in Atlanta, one of the very gifted and experienced weavers used to talk about designing in the tie-up.  I never understood this.  I never even understood it when she tried to explain it in the most simplified way possible to a group of us. 
I was an idiot.  Or at least I was not ready to learn.
I think that the problem was that I didn’t see the tie up as related to shafts rising and falling.  It was just some kind of abstract square stuck in the upper right-hand corner of my drafts. 
And my software even numbers the shafts!  Still, I didn’t get it. 
I didn’t get it quite simply because I did not pay attention to what was happening to the cloth in relation to each lift of the shafts.  I thought in terms of treadles, not in terms of the shafts those treadles were tied to.
I am learning.  It’s not easy!


“A New Tie-up for 6-Shaft Crackle” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on February 4, 2010. ©2009 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.

6-SHAFT CRACKLE TROMP AS WRIT

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Instead of the overshot treadlings I have been working with, here, once again, is the tromp-as-writ.  I adore it in the 6-shaft crackle.

 

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“6-Shaft Crackle Tromp as Writ” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on February 1, 2010. ©2009 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.

COMMENT MODERATION

 

I have just enabled comment moderation.  On Saturday, and again today, I received dozens of anonymous comments in some oriental language.  I have seen this happen on one other (textile but not weaving) blog.

MORE ON BLOCKS IN 6-SHAFT CRACKLE

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Related Post:   Blocks as the Design Feature

“More on Blocks in 6-Shaft Crackle” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on Febuary 2, 2010. ©2009 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.

THE COUNTING CROSS

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When I wind a bout on the warping board, I put in a counting yarn at the cross.  With this particular warp I count off 20, 20 and 12 because there are 52 ends in a bout. 

More than halfway through, I realized how silly this is.  I don’t need three groups in each bout;  I only need two.  How much more sense it would be to wind 24 in one group and 28 in the other!

Or would it?  When I warp two ends at a time, it has been my habit to wind 20 in a segment of a bout, with the last segment generally being a smaller number, say 8 or 16.  Developing habits is very important as they help reduce errors. 

So I think what I could have done was to count off 20 and then 32.  Then, the problem is that I might more easily make a mistake with 32 than with 20, if only for the reason that I am winding more ends before I stop.  But it would certainly be more efficient to have to twist the tie cross only once and then tie it.

As for tying off 52 without a counting cross.  No.  I would absolutely have to double-check each bout and that would use up the time I would have saved by getting rid of the counting cross.

A GLITCH IN WARP WINDING

As for winding the warp, I have been momentarily derailed.  I did not have enough of one of the colors.  Since I didn’t want to dye just one skein, I have been working out more dye colors and winding more skeins.  It looks like this time i might be able to dye seven skeins in one go.  They are small skeins………..

 

“The Counting Cross” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on February 1, 2010. ©2009 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.

BLOCKS AS THE DESIGN FEATURE

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For any just stopping by for the first time, this is part of my crackle-draft-a-day project and the images for these posts are pages from my e-sketchbook, which I keep in Microsoft Publisher.

Go here to learn more about this project. 

Related Post:  Alternating Treadles on 6-Shaft Crackle

“Blocks as the Design Feature” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on Febuary 1, 2010. ©2009 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.