The importance of clearing the shed!

No, not the garden shed!!!Weaving is continuing apace on my 2/2 twill sample blanket. The photos show my first attempt and highlight the importance of getting the tension even and making sure that all the threads are behaving when you lift the shafts. You can see that there are quite a few missed threads and dodgy bits where I have gone ahead without checking the path is clear for the shuttle to pass through cleanly. So reluctantly, I decided to call it quits for this and cut it off the loom.

This gave me the opportunity to get the warp tied on correctly and even up the tension. What excellent timing because Stacey Harvey-Brown put some instructional videos on Facebook and these were so useful in helping me tie the warp so the tension was even. So now I have cracked the tension problem, clearing the shed is a doddle and my weaving is much better with fewer mistakes!

Next up is clearing Dave's wood work shed! Now there's a job!