the silly-billy beams on willy-nilly

Before I rehash my winding “issues” I must say a big thank you to everyone who has taken the time to stop in at my Gallery in the last couple of days. I’ve been delighted to have such a host of visitors, and in fact so many of you have called in at the café that I will have to bake more cakes! And a special word to Peg: that word is Yes, I do think tabs (or pages in wordpress-speak) are a good way to get organised for the long haul (and I sincerely hope that you are in this for the long haul as I love reading your textile adventures).

Anyway, on with that pink warp. It is now a pink, red and purple warp since I wound my second and third bouts, put in the lease sticks and laid the whole thing out in the raddle. Here’s a close-up, with my trusty black board behind the threads (you’ll need to click to biggify the picture as it won’t fit in the 500 pixels width I have here).

The black lines show the area where I used the wrong yarn

The couple of ends which are a much darker pink are intentional, it is the background colour which I muddled up. Those ends are one strand of a pale rose pink and one strand of the wrong pink – the black arrow is intended to point it out. I have looked at this, looked at it again, walked round and round the loom, turned my head to all kinds of angles and have decided to leave it as it is. While it isn’t the colour that I planned for it to be I am not sufficiently convinced that the planned colour would make it massively better. It would make it different, but it would also mean wasting a substantial chunk of yarn without necessarily improving the final outcome.

Of course, as soon as I make that decision, I immediately disagree with it. I go all around the loom again and decide that the colour is intolerable, completely disrupts the sequence and I cannot possibly live with it. Then I think that the whole thing is going to be crinkled up anyway and this little patch will hardly stand out so what is the worry? Then I wonder what is the point of choosing colours anyway if after all that it doesn’t matter which ones I use? Then I wonder how someone can take a simple mistake at the warping board and inflate it into an existential crisis…

So I have put a stop to all that and beamed it willy-nilly. This is my warp (full-size picture this time).

And now I’m weaving on it. So there!