Testing out Weft

Yay, ready to weave!

Oh, no, actually, not quite yet, first I have to fix my tieup, which is my least favorite thing to do in this whole process. Sigh. A dobby loom would fix this problem (no crawling under the loom to tie your treadles up), but when I had one I never used it. It was a really lovely loom (a LeClerc Weavebird), a 16-shaft compudobby, but there was something about having to make up my mind about what I was going to weave before actually sitting down to do it that put me off. (And, yes, you absolutely can change your mind, you just make adjustments in your weaving software, but I found that a real barrier too.) Maybe I'll try another one some day, but, for now, I'll put up with crawling under the loom to tie up.

Coffee makes everything better. :) And after that, I can get on to another fun part, testing out weft yarns!