The Next Wave

Still having weird issues when I try to upload photos to this blog using this computer.  I'm going to try a different computer...hmm.


Last night I started warping the next run of kitchen towels - this is the one with the bright pistachio-colored perle cotton warp that will be combined with bright orange, pink, and violet wefts.  I had originally settled on a particular draft that turns out, as it happens, to have a much longer repeat than I had thought.  It's only a 10-harness pattern, but it's going to have to wait until I get the compu-dobby reattached and configured, which will happen sometime this year.  This will make a huge difference in what I can weave on my 16 shafts.  That said, I am quite attached to the funky clunky clackety twang of the mechanical dobby.  There's something comforting about the mechanical dobby, despite the limits it has.  And it uses no electricity.


But there's a whole new world of long, long repeats waiting, and also the ability to change to tabby with a press of a button.  I wonder how loud the compu-dobby is when the solenoids are firing; the mechanical dobby is certainly noisy in its own way, but I suspect that it will be a different kind of noisy.  Maybe not bad.


Still spinning on the Rambouillet/Romney wool top I bought last week at the Spinning at the Winery event.  It's wonderful to spin, and the high-speed Alden Amos wheel is the perfect wheel for a very fine wool yarn that has almost the same amount of twist as cotton.