So… The first step to the project is to measure out 1221 warp threads. I’m up to 360. It’s going really slow as I have only one cone of yarn, so I’m measuring out each end separately. Time to figure out how to speed it up! Enter the cone winder<\/a>. QSWFA <\/a>purchased one of these in the original Kickstarter and it arrived just before Christmas. Last week we finally opened it up. Looks like it will be just what I need to divide my yarn into two cones so that I can measure 2<\/em><\/strong> threads at a time and cut the remaining warp measuring time in half. One slight hiccup, though – since it’s an American product, it came with a US power cord. I should have an adapter someplace in the house, but I can’t find it. I’ve ordered a replacement power cord, which should arrive tomorrow. Then it will be full speed ahead!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, I’ve been working on an experimental scarf on my rigid heddle loom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The warp is hand spun merino – spun about aran weight. It was part of a challenge at QSWFA to spin thicker than normal – and it is thick, for me! I want the hand spun warp to be the star of the scarf, so I’m using a very fine (18\/2) wool yarn for the weft, and the scarf is mostly warp-faced. Originally I thought the yarn should be woven at 5 ends per inch – but after measuring it out and starting the weaving it was clear that the warp needed to be closer together, so I re-threaded it into a 7.5 epi heddle. Almost done with the weaving – this goes quickly! The resulting scarf is much thinner than I had planned, but will be a good proof of concept. Once its washed and pressed, I’ll see if I like the fabric enough to weave a wider scarf. The current warp used about 25% of the yarn, so I should have enough for two normal width scarves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Weaving requires counting to very high numbers. Who knew?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"What's on the loom this week?","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[9,8,30,16],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weaving","tag-cotton","tag-huck-lace","tag-rigid-heddle","tag-wool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/WarpingBanner.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/EarthboundScarfOnLoom.jpg\")
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