liftplan trauma
I have to remind myself that I am still relatively new to the dobby loom and designing liftplans. I have to remind myself of this to prevent outbreaks of frustrated screaming, but I don’t always do it in time…
Yesterday I had a day off work and I thought I would spend it weaving up the first scarf on the new warp. Have I shown you the new warp by the way? It looks like this:
Anyway, as I mentioned earlier, I want to use Itten’s rounded triangle shape with a green weft and I set up a draft that would do this. Only when I wove it, I didn’t like it. So I set about “quickly” changing it and four hours later… Well, it is probably sufficient to say that by the time I had a liftplan I was happy to try, I no longer had any enthusiasm for trying it. While on the one hand I am grateful that I have weaving software to alleviate some of the pain of this process, on the other hand it was my day off and I spent most of it at the computer.
Fortunately, I had taken some sausages out of the freezer, so the day wasn’t completely ruined.
“liftplan trauma” was posted by Cally on 28 Sept 2010 at http://callybooker.wordpress.com
Like the warp colours. Picture of the rejected draft?
well, just imagine yourself under the loom re tyeing the tie up three or four times.
those green threads make that warp sing!