I've crossed a weaving milestone! I made my first ever repair heddle. I'd come to the end of my threading and had a warp thread leftover that I shouldn't have. I found the skipped shaft smack in the middle and set myself to fixing it, slowly backtracking and correcting until I got to the spot. And then... I did an Internet search. Bless you, all you experienced weavers who share your knowledge. Voila - I had MADE A HEDDLE.
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@faziarizvi @weaving @fiberarts I've been there! After I started weaving one of my most recent projects, a few inches in I realized that I needed floating selvedges so I had to undo my work, measure out two new warp threads and hang them off the back of the loom!
@kyle @weaving @fiberarts Oof! It’s a lot of work to backtrack and redo, but it’s worth it in the end. I fear I might need to create some floating selvedges for this one too - luckily I’m at the start of it and just sampling, so no work yet to unravel. Sometimes I think most of weaving is getting set up to weave!
@faziarizvi @weaving @fiberarts I started timing my projects earlier this year and for many projects the setup took more time than the actual weaving! I may stop timing though as I noticed it added a subconscious level of stress as though I were racing a clock, removing some of the meditative relaxation.
I have slowly moved from tolerating to somewhat enjoying the setup process even though it doesn't have the instant visual gratification of the actual weaving.
@kyle @faziarizvi @weaving @fiberarts The setup does take a lot of time, but I have come to enjoy the whole process.
I have also timed myself during the different phases. I found it very helpful so I could anticipate how long future projects were going to take.