Warping is going fast!

I started beaming my Ocean-Born Mary scarves last night. 

I have to say that the AVL Warping Wheel is earning its keep!   This time I was warping with four ends at a time, so that with 40 epi I only had to do 20 passes to do the two-inch bouts.  

Inadvertently I wound 12 yards on each section, instead of the 9-yard warp I had intended (and for which I had already done the math).  This of course ended up using the yarn much faster than I had imagined - the quickly-disappearing yarn raised a red flag for me, and that's when I rechecked my original calculations and discovered my error. 

However, this is not too bad as errors go.  The color gradient is still working nicely across the warp, and although I have to dunk more of the reserve yellow yarn into the indigo vat to make it green, I had actually set aside about 2,000 more yards of yellow exactly for this reason.  So although I have to now dye more yarn, the good thing is that I only have to do the indigo portion (the yellow dyeing portion is much more time-consuming than the indigo portion of the process) and I will have enough warp to finish the scarf.  I'll have to do this quickly, because I want to be sure to get this warp up and weaving by the time my exalted guest comes from Japan to visit my studio on 9/6/14.   I would like for her to have the experience of weaving on the AVL mechanical dobby if it turns out she wants to try it.

And, by dint of my above error, I will have enough warp for a whole 'nother scarf.  Not such a whoops after all.

I don't like the unexpected, I don't like making mistakes; correcting errors can be awful.  Luckily this is not a bad one, just one that makes a bit more work for me.  It's not the kind of error that requires the removal of any of my preciously-dyed silk yarn that I beamed yesterday.

It was almost comical to see how quickly the winding/beaming went, with the four ends going.  It took me about half an hour to wind and beam two 2" bouts, 12 yards in length.   And they went on effortlessly and accurately; no mysteriously loose ends showing up, no breakage at all, and the yarn packages are super-neat and tight on the sectional beam. 

Onward!