Cut and waiting for the sewing machine to find space on a bench somewhere (it’d spot has been taken over by the painter).
Musing on next project now - can you use normal knitting wool as a weft yarn? With a cotton or wool warp? #weaving
@Kymberly You can use regular knitting wool, even loosely spun, as weft. I weave with knitting wool all the time (my local yarn store caters more to knitters). For weft almost anything goes.
You can use it as warp too, just try to pick yarn with more twist that doesn't immediately pull apart when you tug on a sample. I have even used a local worsted, almost homespun, wool as warp, I just made sure it was under less tension.
@Kymberly I should add that there are exceptions. Some projects (weft-faced projects and rugs in particular) call for very high warp tension. In that case you are better off using rug warp which was designed specifically for that purpose and has high tensile strength.
@Kymberly Mohair will definitely be fine as weft for that. For warp I'm not sure. I could see it fraying and ultimately breaking as it gets pulled through the heddles and reed.
Even then, repairing broken a warp thread isn't so bad. I used to be scared of it until I had a project where I broke over a dozen warp threads before the end of the project (I allowed too much draw-in on a high-tension warp, a common cause). By the end it just became a mild annoyance.
@kyle it’s wonderful how quickly things move from ‘how on earth does that even work?!?’ to ‘no problem!’ 😁
I’ll use the four ply wool I used for the scarf I made on a tapestry loom - it seemed very robust despite the rough heddle. Thank you!
@kyle ooo, thank you, that eases my mind!
This will be a loosely woven fluffy mohair scarf though, so I probably won’t need tooooo much tension on the warp.