{"id":9938,"date":"2020-02-21T21:01:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T02:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=9938"},"modified":"2020-02-21T21:01:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T02:01:17","slug":"over-and-over-and-over-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2020\/02\/over-and-over-and-over-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Over and over and over again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Dave Clark Five - Over And Over\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9ji1MMXoAVk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t kept track of how many times I&#8217;ve started this warp over and I didn&#8217;t take pictures, but I THINK I can remember them all. Here&#8217;s the history.<\/p>\n<p>At the <a href=\"http:\/\/weaversguildofrochester.org\/events\/holiday-sale\">Weavers&#8217; Guild Holiday Sale<\/a> &#8211; the <em>2018<\/em> one &#8211; I purchased several hand dyed cotton mini-skeins, ranging from 130 yards to 480 yards.  The yarn was all a beautiful 10\/2 cotton and the colors looked great together.  I finally got to them a few weeks ago.  Here are some bits of the skeins, with some duplication.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/JR-skeins-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"JR dyed mini skeins\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/JR-skeins-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/JR-skeins-148x150.jpg 148w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/JR-skeins.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I set up the swift near my warping mill and started winding a warp for three scarves directly from my swift, one skein at a time.  I got about 2\/3 of the way through the colors when I realized that I didn&#8217;t like the way the warp would look &#8211; totally striped and not good.  I walked away and slept on it.  The next morning I felt the same, so I began unwinding the warp.  <\/p>\n<p>Just as unweaving is much slower than weaving, unwinding is much slower than winding.  Each color had to be wound into a ball as I went.<\/p>\n<p>Once that was accomplished, I started over with the winding, but this time I held 3 strands of yarn together, winding them at the same time.  As one color ran out I replaced it with another.   Now I was happy, so I beamed the warp.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/JR-RD-on-back-beam.jpg\" alt=\"JR RD warp on the back beam\" width=\"550\" height=\"733\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/JR-RD-on-back-beam.jpg 550w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/JR-RD-on-back-beam-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/JR-RD-on-back-beam-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/JR-RD-on-back-beam-400x533.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I threaded the loom for a 6H point twill with tabby selvedges and sett the warp at 24 EPI (ends per inch).  I had a lovely brown 10\/2 cotton for the weft and wove only about an inch before realizing there was a problem.  The plain weave selvedges had a much different take-up than the twill center and had to be sett wider.  So I unwove, untied the edges, and sett the plain weave selvedges at 20 EPI.  <\/p>\n<p>I wove about an inch again and saw that this still wasn&#8217;t working as planned.  Again I unwove and untied those edges.  This time I also re-threaded those selvedges to be the same 6H point twill.  <\/p>\n<p>I wove that first inch for the third time, now realizing that I wasn&#8217;t getting the overall look I wanted.  The color of the weft was a bit overpowering.  I loved the subtlety of the warp colors.  I wanted a more warp-dominant look.  <\/p>\n<p>You can see the unweaving coming again, right?  This time I re-sett the warp at 28 EPI, hoping that was close enough for the warp to shine.  <\/p>\n<p>Wove an inch of straight treadling again.  Wanted to see still more warp, so decided I&#8217;d do some leno to show it off.  Tried 2-2 and took it out.  Tried 3-3 and took it out.  Tried 6-6 &#8211; yeah that was the right scale.  But going from twill to leno and back to twill was problemmatic.  So I tried some basket weave after.  That seemed better, so I had to take out the basket weave and the leno, put in a few rows of basket weave, and re-do the leno.  <\/p>\n<p>Did I want just one row of leno or two?  Wove about 1\/2&#8243; of twill with point treadling, put in a few more picks of basket weave, and another row of leno.  A few more picks of basket weave and another inch of twill with straight treadling.  Then I had to walk away for the night and come back and look at it later.<\/p>\n<p>Not happy.  Not happy at all.  It all needed to come out.  But instead of unweaving I decided I&#8217;d just cut it all out.  Still time consuming, but not as bad as unweaving.  As I was doing so I realized that I was having tension issues, with one side of the warp much tighter than the other.  So instead of re-tying to fix this issue, I decided to switch to lashing on.  <\/p>\n<p>Finally I&#8217;m moving forward.  I have about 25&#8243; woven.  Here&#8217;s the top&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/JR-RD-scarf-1-top.jpg\" alt=\"JR-RD scarf 1, top\" width=\"500\" height=\"850\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9942\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/JR-RD-scarf-1-top.jpg 500w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/JR-RD-scarf-1-top-176x300.jpg 176w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/JR-RD-scarf-1-top-88x150.jpg 88w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/JR-RD-scarf-1-top-400x680.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and the bottom, which I prefer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/JR-RD-scarf-1-bottom.jpg\" alt=\"JR-RD scarf 1, bottom\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/JR-RD-scarf-1-bottom.jpg 500w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/JR-RD-scarf-1-bottom-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/JR-RD-scarf-1-bottom-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/JR-RD-scarf-1-bottom-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The overall look is still not exactly what I had in mind.  I&#8217;ve auditioned a few other wefts, and will definitely try a soft green for scarf #2, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll be starting over (re-threading or re-setting) again.  Then again, who knows?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t kept track of how many times I&#8217;ve started this warp over and I didn&#8217;t take pictures, but I THINK I can remember them all. Here&#8217;s the history.<\/p>\n<p>At the Weavers&#8217; Guild Holiday Sale &#8211; the 2018 one &#8211; I purchased several hand dyed cotton mini-skeins, ranging from 130 yards to 480 yards. 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