Bye, Bye Bertha

  Before we could even begin moving Bertha, she had to be cleaned off....lots of stuff ended up on her bench or on top of her castle.


****FYI:  Bertha is a 60 inch, 12 Harness, Nilart Leclerc loom.

  Then, the team got down to business.  Thank goodness the shafts just left out of the jacks!  That's a lot of weight off of the main frame.

  Since the loom would be going up narrow stairs at Tina's house, the goal was to get the pieces down to a manageable size.









  Part of the loom pieces (plus the bench) were loaded into Tina's car.








  Jocelyn volunteered her truck to move the castle and the treadles.  She and Ray got the load tied down and ready to roll.

  Look at all of that space!
Well.....look at it before it's gone!












   Bonnie took this opportunity to give the Studio a good once over with the vacuum cleaner!









  Even with all that activity going on in the Studio, Carl got busy winding on his new rug warp.  Anna and Helen jumped in to help.





   They finished before lunch, and Carl spent the afternoon tying on and weaving in the header.  Next week he plans on cutting more blue jean strips for the new set of rugs!












  Betsy got back to work on her loom after lunch, while Liz sat down to sley the reed on her placemat warp.

The weaving has advanced into the blue area of the warp, and the pattern is showing up very nicely!












  Since we need to order black 8/4 for the sectional warp on the Gilmore, it's a great time to get colors you need, too.    Helen got in a little weaving time, too.

Irene got a new warp wound for a project.

















  The new dyed warps (and wefts) needed to be sorted and stored.  They will be waiting for their turn on one of the looms.

 At the end of the day, there was plenty of room to store the looms. 
  Now....doesn't that look great!

Bye, bye Bertha....be good to Tina!!!


Happy Weaving!
LouAnn