I'm weaving

So off I go to the Festival of Quilts and I came back with some beautiful silk yarn. This is hand dyed by Oliver Twists who sadly don't have a website, but do go to many shows. This is the yarn which is space dyed. There are two colourways, both orange, green ish, one darker than the other. the warp is the lighter colour and the weft is the darker.

I was so careful measuring and winding the warp, working out the sett, threading in the right order and sleying the reed that I was convinced I had it all done correctly. Sadly life is not that simple. I've come to the conclusion that no matter how many times you count, measure, check it all AGAIN, there's always a mistake you don't spot!

As you can see, there are threads crossing in the reed, so the shed is not opening correctly on some passes and this leads to MISTAKES. But only Allah is perfect and I had already woven too much to start again when I finally admitted that I'd got it wrong.

Anyway, I will end up with a lovely scarf that everyone will admire and say how beautifully woven and I'll bite my tongue and hope that any real weavers will discreetly sigh and not make rude comments!

So a success story instead of weaving problems. Here is my pirn winder made by my lovely DH for me from an old hand drill!

Don't you just love it!! Back to the loom!