{"id":7357,"date":"2025-02-25T13:12:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T18:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=7357"},"modified":"2025-02-25T13:12:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T18:12:15","slug":"life-and-weaving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=7357","title":{"rendered":"Life and Weaving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An amazing thing happened to me on Saturday while Bob and I attended a huge party of several hundred people that was a celebration for sending off the crews of various large yachts, from mega yachts to large yachts, for the Caribbean 600 Race. That\u2019s a race that starts and ends in Antigua, with a 600 mile course that circumnavigates a number of islands in this part of the Caribean. First of all, the music was amazing, but prevented conversation with anyone, yet I still met someone quite incredible!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a short video of the steel drum band. I didn\u2019t arrive in time to catch the beginning of one of my favorite songs from my youth\u2014the Turtles \u201cYou and Me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"February 25, 2025\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qpe1c81mdJs?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The real excitement of the evening was that I met a woman living aboard her boat in English Harbour, where she has a Harrisville 22\u201d folding loom <em>onboard<\/em>.  When I asked how she set that up down below, she informed me that she weaves in the cockpit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AD7E92B9-A768-494D-8727-5AE461D6E1B6_1_201_a.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AD7E92B9-A768-494D-8727-5AE461D6E1B6_1_201_a.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7361\" style=\"width:409px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AD7E92B9-A768-494D-8727-5AE461D6E1B6_1_201_a.jpeg 750w, http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AD7E92B9-A768-494D-8727-5AE461D6E1B6_1_201_a-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AD7E92B9-A768-494D-8727-5AE461D6E1B6_1_201_a-600x800.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We met a couple of evenings later when we could actually talk.  Her name is Helen, and she lives part of year the in Minnesota, and part of the year here in Antigua, on her boat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right now her loom is set up with an 10\/2 Tercel warp. I\u2019m not sure if she has decided what she\u2019ll weave. She may have a plan by the time I see her again in a few days. Like me, she gathers her materials at home and brings them with her. Here is one of some photos she shared with me.  I don&#8217;t know what she does when the tropical showers start with no warning.  Her loom would definitely get wet because here doesn&#8217;t come without wind&#8230;usually lots of wind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_2411-rotated.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_2411-rotated.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7358\" style=\"width:375px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_2411-rotated.jpeg 240w, http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_2411-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sorry that the image is blurry. I couldn\u2019t pass up using it because it\u2019s such an incredible feat to meet a weaver while sailing, especially a weaver who manages to weave onboard. I have never attempted to bring any loom onboard except a copper pipe loom. In order to weave I put a table easel on a folding table and then set up my loom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/8E7491C2-C7D8-4380-B184-2A5C5CF02B05_1_201_a.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/8E7491C2-C7D8-4380-B184-2A5C5CF02B05_1_201_a.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7362\" style=\"width:498px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/8E7491C2-C7D8-4380-B184-2A5C5CF02B05_1_201_a.jpeg 750w, http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/8E7491C2-C7D8-4380-B184-2A5C5CF02B05_1_201_a-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/8E7491C2-C7D8-4380-B184-2A5C5CF02B05_1_201_a-600x800.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have been considering table looms even though I don\u2019t like them! Is that the voice of desperation? (<em>yes<\/em>) I was quite intrigued with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yarnbarn-ks.com\/Louet-Jane-8-16-Expandable-Table-Loom\/productinfo\/WLLU-JANE-\/\">Jane table looms<\/a>, but wherever I might set it up I would have to stand to use it. If I bought a stand for it, or had Bob make one, it wouldn\u2019t fit onboard. Oh, the hindrances of living in such a small space while trying to weave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only other weaver I\u2019ve met who weaves aboard is Doris Florig, and we didn\u2019t actually meet in person, just online. At the time, 2015, she was aboard her sailboat in Guatemala and had set up a large tapestry loom where her dining table is in the main saloon. I wrote about her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=3221\">here.<\/a> Currently I believe Doris mostly weaves somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. Here is the photo of her loom she sent me back in 2015. Again, not a crystal clear photo, but impressive, yes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_2409.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"427\" height=\"572\" src=\"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_2409.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7359\" style=\"width:488px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_2409.png 427w, http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_2409-224x300.png 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So it goes to show that I should never say \u2018never.\u2019 I have spent 13 years lamenting that I have never met a weaver during our sailing adventures. I have now met Helen, in real life (IRL), who weaves on a pretty large loom on her boat. No, it&#8217;s not a large loom by weaving on land standards, but I doubt I&#8217;ll meet anyone else who has a floor loom on a mono-hull sailboat. (I refrain from saying never.) Bob would never agree to Doris\u2019 solution, and I actually don&#8217;t blame him. I know I can\u2019t get even the little Harrisville onboard <em>Pandora<\/em>. If you\u2019ve got advice for me please get in touch!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, life goes on doesn&#8217;t it?  And those of us with hurdles try to figure out how we can keep weaving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An amazing thing happened to me on Saturday while Bob and I attended a huge party of several hundred people that was a celebration for sending off the crews of various large yachts, from mega yachts to large yachts, for the Caribbean 600 Race. 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