{"id":5332,"date":"2014-06-18T05:12:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T10:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=5332"},"modified":"2014-06-18T05:12:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T10:12:41","slug":"it-got-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2014\/06\/it-got-better\/","title":{"rendered":"It Got Better"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s not perfect, but it’s definitely better.<\/p>\n

I brought that re-wound bout to the loom, inserted my lease sticks, and put it over the warping valet, just like always. Then I got my cardboard mailing tube and used Sandra Rude’s<\/a> directions for making and using a supplemental warp beam.<\/p>\n

Here I’ve spread the warp in the raddle and across the supplemental beam, then decided I’d done enough for a while – I needed to sit and ponder again.<\/p>\n

\"supplemental<\/a><\/p>\n

See how that that tube is on a bit of an angle in the photo above? Well, I THOUGHT I’d straightened that out as I wound, but apparently not. I do wish I’d spent more time on that, ‘cuz now that crookedness is a bit of a pain.<\/p>\n

Anyway, unlike Sandra’s directions, I had 200 threads and decided I was going to use warp packing. Also, she doesn’t mention maintaining tension on the warp as she’s winding that beam, and I decided I had to do that, too. So I hung my weights by the warping valet and starting winding. It seemed to be working well. Until my weight got up to the valet bar. <\/p>\n

Hmmm… I hadn’t thought this aspect through. How can I move to the front of the loom to move my weight? If I let go of the supplemental beam, the weight will drop back to the floor and unwind what I just wound. <\/p>\n

This would definitely be easier with another person to help for about 1\/2 hour. My little dog was not interested. Oh, to be able to turn into Elastic Lad at will, so I could stretch to the front & the back of the loom simultaneously. But that’s not my alter ego.<\/p>\n

So I stood there with the supplemental beam pulled taut, thinking. How would I do this? <\/p>\n

I set the supplemental beam on the floor and put a bit of weight on top of it. Nope. The counter weight was heavier. In the end I wound the beam up more and turned it over, laying it on top of the lease sticks. My weight dropped a bit every time I did this, but I couldn’t come up with another solution.<\/p>\n

Still, the winding went smoothly. Here is is finished.<\/p>\n

\"supplemental<\/a><\/p>\n

Then I threaded heddles & reed without incident, tied on to the front apron, and threw a few picks with the shuttle. Hah! The threads on that supplemental beam were nowhere near tight enough, so I untied and retied. Twice. Then started weaving again.<\/p>\n

\"starting<\/a><\/p>\n

I ended up retying that section of the warp 2 MORE times – a total of 4 times of retying – before I got it right. (Pay no attention to the color in the above shot – it’s nowhere near reality.)<\/p>\n

To be sure, it’s still not perfect, but I’ve got 1\/4 of the first wrap woven and it’s structurally sound. I may decide to cut off after the first wrap, re-tie, and start again for the second one. I’ll have to think about it, since I’m a bit worried about using too much warp length – I don’t plan enough extra to do that tie-on twice. We’ll see how it goes.<\/p>\n

I KNOW that if this wasn’t a custom order, I would have simply left the ‘flipped’ section of the warp stay like it was originally, and called it part of the design, but I can’t do that with a custom. I also KNOW that I will be very careful to never make THIS mistake again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not perfect, but it’s definitely better.<\/p>\n

I brought that re-wound bout to the loom, inserted my lease sticks, and put it over the warping valet, just like always. Then I got my cardboard mailing tube and used Sandra Rude’s directions for making and using a supplemental warp beam.<\/p>\n

Here I’ve spread the warp in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[530,129,568],"class_list":["post-5332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","tag-cotton","tag-custom-weaving","tag-handwoven-baby-wrap","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5337,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions\/5337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}