Story of a Warp and most of the Back Row

Late last year Betsy finished a project on one of the regular floor looms. She then thought that she might try weaving some wool fabric for a piece of clothing,the colors were red, white,grey and black. Betsy wound the warp in a couple of sessions at the warping board and by February we were putting the warp on the big ole Barn loom.

As anybody who has woven with wool will agree that wool is sticky and it likes to have a tangle party at any part of the warping process. These yarns are in a variety of sizes and colors which makes it interesting to thread, keeping like colors seperate and spreading the thin yarns evenly throughout the fabric. Betsy did a great job getting the warp ready to weave.

This week the fabric was finished! Betsy had woven as far as the tangles would allow! She cut the warp off and unwound the finished fabric which is 5 2/3 yards! I have taken the fabric home to check for floats and stablize the ends. Once that is done the fabric will go to Laura cause she has the skilz, and she will take the fabric to the finished cape or poncho!

I promised you some pictures from the back row, I managed a couple but not all of them. From left to right along the back wall there is first Linda. Linda finished her towel warp today and cut it off. As I was taking the picture Linda said "You're not getting me in the picture are you?" I said, "of course not!" and had to snap another picture real quick!

Laura's loom is next but I didn't get her photos, that will be next week. Then beside Laura is Angie, she was threading a crammed and spaced warp last week and once we figured out the spacing she was off and running!

We had 2 people winding warps today, Jenny and Sally. We talked about Jenny's warp last week and I had to put it at the top of the blog for awhile cause it is so pretty! Sally is winding a white warp for Christmas mug rugs. I had hoped that we would be able to use a tool that holds lease sticks that I happened to find in one of the drawers early in the day. but that too will have to wait until next week.

Hey! It is time for Show and Tell! First up we have Liz who brought in the knitted linen shawl that she told us about last week, it is beautiful, light and airy. We all were brainstorming about how we could do something similar though woven.

Charlotte came by again today to use our fringe twister and to show off some huck lace towels.

Betsy is on a mission! She is weaving Baby blankets for all of her grandchildren, great nephews and nieces! I believe she is up to 17 blankets woven and each one is different!