With the upright loom set up again I have begun to re-sley the piece I was working on in NZ. With the zigzag stripe alternating from turquoise to sky blue it has been named "Turquoise Lightning" for fairly obvious reasons. It's about 2/3 finished and will most likely be sold.
I did find a use for one of my many glass insulators during the process - as a temporary weight as I re-sley. The color even works!
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| Use for an otherwise unused insulator |
I have the loaded shuttles for this rug/throw, but will have to dig around to find the cones with the rest of the yarn so I can complete the job - they should be all together, but who knows where I've temporarily stored them.
The weaving room is fairly cluttered at this stage, as I still have everything 'out' until such time as I can work out what can go into more permanent storage, i.e. won't be needed for a while so can be wrapped at go into some of our remaining storage boxes either out in the shed or up in the roof.
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| The fairly full loom room. |
With a lot (but nowhere near all) of the yard work now under control I have been able to get a little bit more yarn work done. I have made some business cards to hand out, completed a skein of 3-ply alpaca, and I'm half way through tying on the warp, after a relatively painless reed re-sleying and heddle threading.
So, finally getting down to business. More photo's to follow - will post when at higher speed internet locations, as here at home our upload rates are pretty poor so don't support a lot of web work.
