A New Student, Problem Solving and Two Finished Warps!

We have a new student! Her name is Elizabeth and she got her warp wound and off of the warping board!

Marilyn was taking a break from her floor loom, and she had seen that there was an untouched inkle loom project up on one of the cabinets. To relax a bit she began to weave the plainweave band, she soon realized why it was an unfinished bit of weaving! When this project went onto the inkle loom the tension bar wasn't placed at the far end of the slot. As you weave on an inkle loom, the warp is slowly taken up and becomes shorter, you need extra room which you have when the tension bar is fully extended. Marilyn soon realized that she was not going to be able to weave much longer even though she had not gone even half way around the band.

I Showed Marilyn a trick I had picked up somewhere when I found myself in a similar position! This time we used a spool from a cone of 8/4, but you can use a sturdy peg as well. I looped two fat rubber bands together and passed them through the cone. Then we slipped the warp off of one of the pegs and onto the cone, then we put the rubber bands around the original peg and taa-daa, there was room. I made sure she had and extra cone and fat rubber bands in case she needed them.

Liz had to leave early today so I made sure I got a picture of her and the new color on her warp. I also got some pictures of Linda's project, right side and wrong side. After this placemat is done Linda started using a solid weft to see if she could see the pattern a little easier but I didn't get a picture of that!

Kris finished her placemats and her buddy Susan #3 did too!

Pearl is working with shuttles I love the newest color combo that she is using.

Karin, Marilyn, Kris and Alice were deep in conversation. I went around to see if I could see what they were talking about!

JP and Jenny were talking things over! As were Marie and Shirley! Then Patty sent me a picture of Shirley and Marilyn counting how many threads were in each bunch to make sure they were even and to the left you can see Elizabeth and I putting the finishing touches on her warp!

Now finally it is time for show and tell! Liz #2 has been working with homeschool kids and she brought in some really wonderfull work from her latest students.

Mark brought in his finished placemats to show us. The pattern is totally random and is up to how the printed fabric does it's thing!

That is all for this week! Until next time this is Tina, for all!