Warping

The AVL Warping Wheel is really making a difference with this new warp (for the dishtowels).  Winding with four cones really make it go fast!! 

Wound a few 2" bouts yesterday.  7 more to go.  Hopefully I'll get at least 4 on today, or even the rest, if I'm industrious.  It is really, really so much faster and expedient than using a warping board.
I'm anxious to start this one, since I have to deliver the finished towels to the East Coast by 4/24/15 to my cousin. 

I'll use the same threading as the Screamy Bollywood warp, and potentially the same pattern, though that can wait until I finish warping the loom, since any of the patterns I'm thinking of using on this warp are on a point threading.  I have a feeling that with the indigo-dyed blue weft stripes, the firebird design will end up looking beautiful.  It will read smaller, since the yarn I'm using is twice as fine as the stuff I used to make the Screamy Bollywood runner.

In other news, I was terribly chuffed on Saturday to be admitted as a full member of the Loom & Shuttle Handweavers' Guild.  In a way it's not a big deal - the entrance criteria being only that you can prove that one can actually weave.  I wasn't that worried that they would refuse admission, since my I can weave, and submitted three pieces for jurying. 

However, the other aspect to it *is* a big deal, to me.  To be formally and publicly recognized as a peer was a big deal.  This guild has been around since shortly after WWII, and it's a distinct honor to be regarded as one among peers.  The guild has been a bastion of knowledge all this time, and to have the opportunity to be one of the members delights me.  It's not the same thing it was during the medieval period, but it still means so much.