It’s been a good, productive day. I actually posted on Archie’s blog for the first time in longer than I will admit (although the dates are there for everyone to see….to my shame!). He and I have been working on things all along….just not posting. If you love tapestry check it out!
And I wove some plain weave on my huck threading to look for threading or sleying errors. All is well so it was time to peg up 50 bars for my pattern.
Notice anything wrong with this picture? I certainly didn’t…..until I’d gotten about the 2/3 through the pegging and ran out of pegs. So I went scavenging through my bars to undo some pegs. And that’s when I noticed that the pegs go in the flat side, not the angled side. So….out with the bad and in the the good. Almost twice the work, but at least it’s done now….
Just started to weave and the bars are not advancing well on the dobby arm. I’ll have my devoted handyman Bob take a look at it. Be back shortly…
Now it’s Monday… Bob got the dobby arm to work in one direction, but not both. The manual says not to fiddle with adjusting the dobby arm, but to call AVL for advice. Well, they are in California and I’m on the East Coast, so I could not call over the weekend, and cannot call until this afternoon. So, moving forward only, I tried the pattern. There were lots of misfires with the bars, but I managed to get two pattern repeats by going forward only. After wet finishing these diamonds will soften into rounded flowers. I am happy! Now, hopefully I can get the dobby arm to work properly so I can speed up a bit!
