Fridee

Still not sleeping well!  I think I got a total of two hours last night.

I finished the threading last night, and got about a third of the way into sleying the reed before I started dozing at the loom!  It is always a great feeling when the threading is done, and also when the reed sleying is done.  I love those moments.  Always, when the threading is done, I hop off the bench and sing and perform a happy dance around the perimeter of the loom (last night it was an ABBA song.).  Same with the sleying of the reed.  Silly to some, but I started this tradition back in 1978 when I first wove.  The song changes through time as do the steps of the dance, but I always dance around the loom singing then.  

I don't do this when the weaving is done, but rather unfurl all the cloth that's built up on the storage beam in delighted anticipation.  I have been known to drape the newly-woven web around myself and prance up the stairs in it as though wearing a prom gown.

Tomorrow morning, early, I am off down the Penninsula to Woodside, where I'm doing a presentation on silk-reeling for a group gathering at Amazing Yarns.  Part of me really wants and needs to sleep in, but once I am up I'm okay, and it should be great fun.  I do enjoy giving these presentations. 

I'll finish the remainder of the reed sleying this evening, and maybe even get to doing the dobby chain and the pegs.   If I don't get to the dobby chain tonight, I'll do it tomorrow after I come home from the presentation in Woodside, and will hopefully be able to do the initial rows/troubleshooting then, and then get on with the weaving of the dresser scarf in earnest.

I put enough of the warp on so that in addition to the table scarf, I can weave a little extra of this ornate medieval design to make the crown of a hat or some such.  I may use gold thread!!