After this past weekend, which was so busy, and with late evenings and late to bed each night, my plans to do more work on the mechanical dobby were set aside for the evening as I slouched on the couch with Carlos and re-watched the most recent episode of Downton Abbey. It's always fun to watch it the second time and analyze the show as we go - we can pause it to discuss! And to dish!
I dropped off to sleep on the couch, Carlos waking me up to tell me to go to bed. I did, and dropped off to sleep in seconds. I had a very vivid dream about using the sandpaper beam on the AVL for the first time - it was fun.
Visions of 16-harness patterns swimming about in my mind-granary.
I'm still pondering whether it would be better to just leave the compu-dobby on and try the new loom that way first, or to go ahead and try to reconfigure the parts of the mechanical dobby? Hmmm...
Also: great news: the new Honex end-feed shuttle from Bluster Bay is on its way! I assume he's made it with my original choice of marblewood (like Tien's) and not the wood from the boxwood log I sent him, since the wood has to acclimate before working, and it's only been in his hands for a few weeks. Probably marblewood...which is no small thing, since I had the pleasure of using Tien's for a test-run on Emmy, her 40-harness AVL loom, and found the shuttle to be amazing. Just the right weight and especially just the right size - Tien says she picked the small size shuttle because she has tiny hands - which she does; but even with my gorilla hands, I found the little BB Honex shuttle to be the most perfectly-sized and weighted shuttle I've used to date.
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