Onto the Next Warp

The other day, I stopped weaving on the wool blanket warp; too many broken warp threads from old, overly-tender wool.  Not worth it.  That said, I did get three yards of nice, scratchy woolen fabric woven in a diaper twill.  It fulled very nicely, and retains its rather three-dimensional appearance, on both sides.

On Saturday, I went with Tien to the June meeting of Loom and Shuttle Handweavers' Guild.  This time, I wrote the dues check and became a real member of this venerable old guild.  It was great fun actually wearing my own handwovens in public (the multicolor/muga superscarf) and hanging out with a surprisingly large number of my fellow weavers.  I passed around the things I've woven since the arrival of the wonderful AVL loom.  And as it turns out, I was not the only aficionado present of John Marshall's gold thread.   It's really cool to address a group of people, and when you say "...and so I think that for the next project involving gold thread, I'd use it as a supplementary weft rather than the ground weave structure..." and see nods of agreement rather than of puzzlement.  I really need to remember to be active in the fiber community!

The speaker was Robyn Spady, who gave a really engaging program on weave structure analysis methods.  We analyzed speaker cloth from the '40's!

Somebody had made a tart of goat cheese, onion, and roasted yellow squash for the refreshments.  I only got a tiny taste of it, but it was so amazingly delicious...