I’ve been busy making my studio look like springtime, thanks to LV & AT.
As planned, on Thursday I started winding the warp for their custom baby wraps.
The colors, going from rose pale to jaune pale, then to vert pale, bleu pale and lilas, are so like Easter eggs.
Very fitting, since tomorrow is Easter. If you look at the far right side of the images you can watch the progress as I set up the warping valet and put each bout on the lease sticks.
I got all 4 bouts wound on Thursday. Then yesterday I beamed the warp.
And even got the heddles and reed threaded before I called it quits for the day…at around 8PM.
I have learned through experience that the best way to do things on my Macomber and with my body, is to sit in a regular folding chair to thread the heddles and to stand to thread the reed. With wide warps I also stand to tie onto the front apron. These put my in the best body positioning and things move along without pain.
I can only hope that this warp will behave as sweetly as its colors through the weaving process. Time will tell. With some other commitments this morning, I should be able to do the tie on and start weaving later today.
The weaving language, of course! I can fake my way through French words now and then. Two foreign languages? The two I meant are you and Theresa!
LOL
I just love it when you two speak foreign languages!!
Anyway, springtime is, indeed, the theme of this weaving project. The colors are good, but the yellow makes them great!!
Um, 2 foreign languages, Alma? Just French for the color names, since that’s what Maurice Brassard, a French Canadian company, calls them. Or do you mean the weaving language?
Oh yes, such spring /Easter colors! The bunny would be delighted to be in your studio!
How do you raise and lower the valet? I have a beam in my studio that is just calling out to support a warping valet. It would be easy enough to reposition each loom in there to make use of it. If you have featured your set up already and I stupidly missed it, let me know the link please!
Have a wonderful Easter!
I don’t know if I featured that part of my valet, Theresa. I have two eye hooks in the ceiling, 2 eye hooks on the (1″?) dowel that’s my valet, and chain and S hooks connecting them. I can’t move the Macomber, so I have another set of eye hooks by the counterbalance, and just move the S hook/chain/dowel as needed. Easy peasy.