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<\/a><\/p>\nI am trying a continuous warp this time, where I have all the warps on both front and back of my copper pipe loom and will advance the warp around the loom as I progress.\u00a0 Normally I make a continuous warp that has half the warp on the front of the loom and half on the back and I bring the two together with a shedding bar.\u00a0 Making a warp the way I have this time allows me to weave something twice as long as my small loom.\u00a0 The downside is that when I advance the warp around the loom I will have to be very careful about keeping things straight!\u00a0 I have been meaning to face this fear for years! \u00a0I also have to keep the back warps from distracting me so I have inserted a card so I will only see the front warps!<\/p>\n
There is just nothing so soothing as the look of a brand new warp. \u00a0There is no other time in life when things are so neat and tidy and every warp thread is perfectly parallel with its neighbor, with even tension across the whole surface. \u00a0Life is certainly never as even as a warp!<\/p>\n Several weeks ago I made an acquaintance with a tapestry weaver from the Baltimore area, Ann Booth<\/a>, whose works I’ve enjoyed seeing online. \u00a0I’m using up a data this year keeping myself inspired by looking at artworks online and staying in communication with other weavers. \u00a0Next year Ann and her husband may be out here sailing down the coast and across to the Bahamas. \u00a0I hope our paths will cross. \u00a0Perhaps we can even weave together!<\/p>\n When I mentioned that I had only met one other weaver during our three years of cruising (and that woman, a Canadian, had left her looms behind and brought only knitting along for her trip), Ann introduced me to Doris Florig<\/a>, who is currently living on her sailboat in Guatemala. \u00a0Doris is such an inspiration! \u00a0She reminds me of the enthusisam and quest for knowledge of my younger self, when I was so intrigued by learning everything from the ground up: spinning my own yarn, dyeing, weaving cloth. \u00a0It was in my young adulthood that I learned these techniques. \u00a0Somewhere along the way I have lost the wonder of these things. \u00a0I still spin and dye and weave, but over time that original awe and wonder has left me. \u00a0Doris is still cultivating and nurturing that spirit of adventure. \u00a0The main saloon–or cabin– of her boat is not very different from my own on Pandora<\/em>, and she has set up a large tapestry loom in that space. \u00a0Wow!<\/p>\n I can tell Bob is worried I’ll want a set up like this soon!<\/p>\n We sailed from Miami to Marathon, with a one-night stop at Rodriguez Key near Key Largo, over the past couple of days.\u00a0 The wind has been extreme but mostly at our back which is far better than sailing into the wind.\u00a0 It was a hard couple of days for me since I get seasick easily, but even Bob found the long days hard going.\u00a0 He has to do all the hard work by himself.<\/p>\n We are now in Marathon, and it is the most crowded harbor I have ever seen in the US!\u00a0 You\u2019d think every boat from the US and Canada is here.\u00a0 There are no moorings available for rent, which is no surprise.\u00a0 We are #32 on the waiting list for a mooring, and I thought that would mean we had small hope of getting one before June, at least! The bigger surprise was that there is no room to anchor in the harbor.\u00a0 We arrived late in the afternoon, not long before sunset and I was quite worried when I saw how crowded things are.<\/p>\n Here’s a layout of all the moorings, now full. \u00a0All additional space is taken up with boats on their own anchors. \u00a0Sheesh!<\/p>\n We motored up into a creek off the harbor that leads into a mangrove swamp.\u00a0 There were already about a dozen boats up there \u201cMed-moored\u201d–short for Mediterranean moored– to the mangroves.\u00a0 This is a technique where you put down your anchor in the middle of the creek and then back the stern of your boat toward the mangroves and tie your stern onto the trunks of the mangroves.\u00a0 The boats end up lined up next to each other like in a parking lot.\u00a0 There was less room than we\u2019d like between boats, but we managed to squeeze ourselves in.\u00a0 Luckily the two boats on either side of the spot we chose were very welcoming! We barely got ourselves settled as the sun went down.<\/p>\n Tied to the mangroves!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n