Day 5 — First Day of WEAVING

Becky came in the night before and did a little sample on all but the Rep Rug.  I walked around and took pics of all the samples.

She gave a quick lesson on bobbin winding — watch those angles on the linen pirns — too steep an angle from the end to the middle and the thread just starts to fall over — not good. She demonstrated using the shuttle, Throw, Tug, Droop, Squish, Smack — to tell you the truth (honest confession here), I’m only going to double beat on projects that REALLY need it — like the placemats, rug and Rosepath — all the rest – one beat’ll just have to do!

I started on the Goose eye placemats — on the prototype loom.  A temple is a MUST and had to be moved after about 8 picks  — which is better than having broken edge threads.  The warp is tow linen and it really made my sinuses miserable.  I won’t be using Tow anymore.
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We were all weaving like weaver’s possessed.  I was hoping to be done by 4:00 pm but went to 5:30.  Looks like this’ll be a pattern (haha).  They are full sized projects — so we have to work hard!
If the body holds up and I finish each day — I’ll be pretty pleased.  At that point I’ll know that I’m one of the Masters of the UNIVERSE!