I make a line of scarves that are one of my "bread and butter" products. They are a simple product, somewhat boring for me to make, but they sell very well. I use a "dummy warp" and weave warp after warp in different colorways, until I have a nice selection.
I just wound on a warp (using the yarn I dyed in Carol Soderlund's class), and I found it was missing 12 warp threads! I can replace one or two or three warp threads by hanging them off the back of the loom on weighted spools, but 12 would surely be a tangled disaster.
I realized then that I ignored plenty of signs along the way that I was making a mistake. Did I pay attention? Noooooooo..... I have done this at least 100 times and I usually do it by rote.
First sign was when I had 4 empty cardboard spools. I have been using up some of my leftover spools, so just passed it off as some of those I emptied.
Second sign was when I was threading the tension box. The front reed in the box does not have enough dents for all of the ends in the section, so I have to double up some of the threads. When I was threading the dents, I even said to myself,"hmmm, there's enough dents", but didn't stop to consider what that meant.
It wasn't until I had all of the new warp tied to the old warp that I realized there were not enough ends. To fix it,I had to pull each section separately off the beam and chain it. I then rethreaded the ends of each chain through the tension box again with the 4 extra threads added. Feh.... It took two extra hours to put on this warp because of my inattention.
The warp is on, and almost woven off. Here are two scarves woven on the warp- the wefts are two different colors of rayon chenille.
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Oh yes, I have made blunders that could have been avoided had I paid attention to the early warning signs.......sob. I always tend to think, oh, it's going to work out..... Slowly I am learning to pay attention to early warning signals!
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