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From last week, it did not take me long to get my loom back up and running. I would have happily wove another 10 towels in that 8 shaft bronson, but I have so many other things to learn and make. So back to the backlog of Jane Stafford and into Season 6 I went. I grabbed some cones of cotton, bamboo, and wool/silk and got the loom set up for the overshot scarves. I decided to buy the bamboo after making those luscious scarves, since it’s more economical than the silk. And if I like doing the overshot (spoiler, I do) then later on I can get the silk and do more overshot with them. I did not read the pattern that well (shocker) and did not realize I needed 8/2 cotton for the warp, but thankfully I have a good amount of it in the right colors hanging around. So I made the warp and got the loom fully set up in a day and a half, started weaving and fell in love with overshot. I think to me the 6 treadle set up just makes sense, unlike the 10 treadle summer and winter I have on the other loom. Though I think once I figured out a rhythm for summer and winter I’m liking it more.
The first scarf is going pretty well so far, I find myself just drawn to the loom to just weave “just one more section”. But I’m trying to be good and get that 10 yard warp of summer and winter placemats off the other loom soon too. So after I weave 1/2 – 1 placemat, I go back and weave a bit on the scarves. I will say that going back and forth between the two looms really shows me how different they feel to use. An example is that on the baby wolf, pressing a treadle tied to 3 shafts is way heavier than 4 shafts on the David 3. But it is also just how they sound and feel to weave on, I find my weaving style shifts a little between the looms too. So that is definitely interesting to me. I’ll need to really dive in and optimize the ergonomics and efficiency at each loom in the future.
Though I did not do a lot of weaving the past 2 days because I injured my right shoulder, so I had to take it easy. I was able to do some knitting yesterday, but I did not want to chance using the drop spindle. And so it was nice to have the needles back in my hands, I know I have not been knitting that much, but I think that might change in the coming weeks. I did an inventory of my current hand knits and where there are gaps in my wardrobe. Mainly it’s sweaters, hats, gloves, and socks. Surprising I know about the socks, but I bought a bunch of yarn years ago to make the shorter socks I normally wear and never did anything. So that is something I’m planning on doing, along with more sweaters, as I have been wearing two of my sweaters quite regularly. I have to go through stash and my queue to find some patterns I want to work on and I know I’ll wear.