Finishing and Starting

I've been busy with produce from the garden recently with the first lot of blackberry jam, barbeque sauce, and tomato sauce done, plus some quick re-potting and weeding.  We have pounds more tomatoes, plenty of blackberry in the freezer, and lots of hot chillies coming from the garden ready for use.

Tomato sauce cooling, blackberry jam done

So in between those efforts I have been sewing in the ends on the shawl and knotting the warp threads prior to fringe twisting. 

Shawl ready for fringe twisting

This morning I warped the yarn for the scaft - matching colors but a different stripe pattern given that it is only 13 inches wide. 

Warp ready to be tied up.

I have been warping on this warping board for some years, but only in the last year attaching it to hooks on the wardrobe doors.  The hooks normally hang on the inside with various robes on them, but work well to keep the board at shoulder height which reduces the back strain considerably.  I leave the center pull balls of wool of the floor and in this case, join at the color changes when appropriate.

Warping board hung on wardrobe doors.

When I cut the shawl off the loom the heddles are still threaded so I should only have to tie this warp to the appropriate number of threads (EPI is the same despite the slightly thicker yarn on the scarf) and pull it through. Hopefully that should happen today, in between other jobs (brew day at the Oak & Fern is number one on the list, then more jam).