Projects off of the Floor Looms and 6 Warped Table Looms

Linda had taken her towels off of her loom last week and since her sewing machine is in the shop she brought them back in this week to use the serger to take them apart. However there was a problem with the serger and she and Marie couldn't get it to work.

In the mean time I had brought the 4th table loom to put a warp on it. Kris began to thread table loom #3 through the reed. When Karin got to the Center, I had the warp on loom #4 and passed it off to her to thread etc and went to get loom #5.

About the time I got Loom #5 set up to start winding the warp onto the back beam, Mark let me know that he was getting ready to cut his placemats off of the loom. Our Ellens pattern warps are "crammed and spaced" so that the warp can have tension issues after awhile and we have found that it is best to cut the project off and retie the warp when that happens. Soon after that Phyllis cut off one of my new favorite warps, I have so enjoyed watching the colors dance.

Laura and Marie were still trying to get that serger to work! They switched to a different serger and then had to rethread it! We couldn't find the serger that we normally use.

When lunch time rolled around I passed of loom #5 to Susan so that I could go get loom #6 from the annex. After lunch of course it is time for "Show and Tell". Charlotte is our thrum weaver. She takes our thrums and makes beautiful cloth and scarves. Shannon brought it some very cool store bought yarn that is made out of t-shirt material. She had woven a strap on an inkle loom with it and wow the colors are bright! She had also made some weights to use when you are cutting fabric, the weights sit on the pattern hand hold it in place instead of pins. Oh, and she also had a disaster that involved 7 yards of fabric and a surprise color bleed!

Kris had 2 pieces for us today, she had her colorful towels and her scarf all finished even the fringe is twisted. Mark made a rug for his daughter out of her favorite colors.

Normally, I end the blog here but this afternoon we had two more warps come off of the looms! Ruth cut her towels off of the loom and Patty tried to cut her striped shawlproject off without me seeing her!

By the end of the day we had 4 warps off of the floor looms and we did finish getting the 6 table looms warped for 2 "hands on" demonstration days, September 9th and 10th at a local elementary school. You may be wondering what happened with Marie and Laura! They finally gave up and Marie is taking the towels home with her to serge apart using her own serger which doesn't usually give her any trouble. Well folks that is it for today, we should have more fun for you next week, until then this is Tina, for all.