I wove!

I have a small Harris, sampling loom. It's used rarely, my one and only previous attempt ended in disaster when I attempted to dress the loom with sticky and rough thin silk yarn (cheap in a sale...) That went in the bin. I've always thought that my handspun wouldn't be strong enough for a warp, but I realised that the combined strength of several threads probably would be, something Deborah Chandler pointed out. Plus you can buy knitting looms specifically for knitting yarn, and, finally, I really do have to pull hard to break a plied yarn that I've spun from alpaca, much more so than the equivalent with wool. All this preamble leads me to this!



I am inordinately pleased with it, it's really very ordinary and full of mistakes. Intended as a scarf, I soon realised it wasn't going to be long enough so half way through I started playing with other yarns and patterns. I learnt so much from doing it and enjoyed the learning, rather than feeling frustrated. I think because my errors were typical beginners ones and once I realised where I had gone wrong they were simply solved. I don't think I will ever be a true weaver, I am not one of those people who describe the first time they sat at a loom as finding their true vocation, but I can actually see an alternative use for my yarn now and will definitely do it again.

I will make a separate page of the whole process with more pictures at some point, it will be long and boring but a good record for me, and will give you the option of skipping it!

One more thing,

Dear Blogger (Beta), I've been slow with praise and quick to criticise in the past, mainly because you could be a RPITA most times, but thank you, from the bottom of my heart for introducing the 'automatic save' feature. (((((hugs)))))