Spinning Tuesdays: I Wove a Sample

Remember the yarn that said, “weave me”?

Please weave me!

Well I did, kind of.

I wanted a loosely woven scarf that really showed off the thick and thin weft yarn. I planned on warping with some purple commercial Shetland, using every other slot in the reed for a looser sett.

I warped my Cricket loom and as a warped, I heard those little voices, the ones that say, “Danger, Will Robinson!”.  I kept on warping, saying things to myself like. “Oh, that will be ok”, “It’s close enough”, “It will even out”, you know, lies, weaving lies.

I was a weaver before I was spinner or a knitter, an 8-harness weaver, so I knew that these were big lies, cut-your-warp-before-you’re-done lies.

But I wanted to weave.

So I wove.

I just kept going.  I let the warp tension be really uneven and stopped noticing that I threaded it too wide and some of the warp threads were scootching really close to the ratchet gears.

After about 8 inches, I couldn’t deny all of the problems any more.

I stopped. I loved how the weaving looked, uneven and undulating. But the warp troubles were now undeniable, so I cut.

I have an excellent sample of the scarf I’m going to make.

Thick and thin weaving

And I learned the lesson again, the one that tells me to listen to those little voices in my head.

Thick and thin weaving close

What did you learn this week?