This is a story about how everything went a little bit
wrong during a weaving project. It all
started innocently enough with a drall tea towel project.
I pulled my warp in white 2/8 cotton and I carefully counted
the ends. It was going so fast and then
. . .
I put the warp through the raddle at the top of my loom
and Mistake 1! I had miscounted the
threads on the warping board as doubles so I had actually only pulled half the
warp. So back I went to the warping
board to finish pulling the warp.
Mistake 2 was threading errors. The threading plan prints up quite small and
through an optical illusion on the plan I had placed eight threads wrong on all
seven blocks. This showed up as a thicker vertical line. Of course, I didn’t find
the error until I started weaving. So I
unwove the weft then untied the warp from the cloth beam and finally fixed the
threading errors.
Mistake 3 was a treadling error. The pretty drall boxes started a little wonky with a wavy line instead of the crisp box I wanted, but, again I didn’t notice until I went to advance the warp. So I unwove the 3 inches back and tried again.
Mistake 4 was a floating thread. In the first drall box so this time I unwove
6 inches and tried again. I finally got
my rhythm and the purple tea towel was finally finished.
The other three tea towels on the warp wove up quickly,
thankfully. For all the mistakes and the slow start, these are probably the prettiest tea towels I have made! Here are the finished tea
towels in their Etsy photo shoot.
Purple Drall Tea Towel. For Sale.
Blue Drall Tea Towel. For Sale.
Red Drall Tea Towel. For Sale.
Turquoise Drall Tea Towel. For Sale.
Final garden shot is the first Brown Turkey Fig (Ficus carica 'Brown Turkey'). We had Green Mission Figs ripen at the end of July and now after a couple of weeks the Brown Turkeys are starting! This one was the size of a mandarin orange and was so sweet.....yum!
Final garden shot is the first Brown Turkey Fig (Ficus carica 'Brown Turkey'). We had Green Mission Figs ripen at the end of July and now after a couple of weeks the Brown Turkeys are starting! This one was the size of a mandarin orange and was so sweet.....yum!