Hit the Reset Button!

It has been quite some time since I was upstairs in the studio.  It may have been a month, I know for sure it has been 3 weeks since I set foot to treadle.  When it has been that long it takes me a little while to get back to where I was creatively, in the various projects that are in progress.  As I was going up the stairs I decided to just do the first thing that blocked my path, and see where that led.

The first thing I saw was the carpet warp I had ordered with the other Tuesday Weavers.  I took those bags in hand and put them with the other carpet warp in the studio. ( I had to squeezed my way across the room to get to that shelf.)   Once that was done, I noticed that there were place-mats that  I hadn't serged yet.  I plugged in the serger and did that job.

Once the serging was done, I stacked them up, with the Waffle Weave towels and put them aside, to be hemmed later.  I then noticed some black and white fabric strips on the floor from my training session with the  rag cutting machine .  I gathered it up, and put some of the wider strips through the frazer cutter, to get the width I was looking for.

I say, a picture or two is worth a thousand words.  In the room across the landing I have a rug loom just waiting for some weft.  I loaded up a couple of shuttles and played with the black and white strips for 6 to 8 inches, just enough to be satisfied that this would really look good.

While I was doing all of the above, I was contemplating my real reason for being up there, and with all that success under my belt, I was able to tackle the white towel warp that was waiting for me.  I had finally decided to go ahead, without further sampling and re-sley to 20 ends per inch.  I then wove a sample, I made a slight treadling error, but it is just a sample.  I placed the two samples side by side, and I am really pleased that I made the change. The table element in the pattern is much squarer in the new sample, and  I think I will have a much better towel fabric with this new sett too!

That, my friends, is how I hit the reset button.   I work on what I know, those mindless tasks, while thinking about the problems I am facing on the more challenging projects.   Now if I  can just get my feet and hands to work together on this treadling pattern, it is a challenge as well!  I may even use the pattern motive only on each end of the first couple of towels, and twill for the middle section.  That may be really lovely, I will be sure to post pictures, possible this week on my farmstead studio blog.

Until next time, Happy Weaving, Tina