slowly she turned

I weave on the front porch as much as possible to take advantage of the natural light and the pleasant weather now. Here’s the progress on “Hammock View.”

About half of this will be turned over for a hem, so I am not very far along at all. Good thing that I’m not in a hurry.

My camera has a fuzzy spot on the lens. I’m pretty hard on my little pocket cameras. Guess it is time to shop for another.

I wish I had more time to weave, but soon my schedule will be better. I need to prepare my garden for planting on Easter weekend as well.

working with line

Playing with fine lines in wee urban landscape tapestry on my little frame loom. This one is 4.5 x 4.5 inches and is designed from a photo that I took out of a classroom window at Fort Worden in Port Townsend, Washington. There was a wooden staircase next to the window and sidewalks and a parking lot beyond. I like to have a project in progress that is portable.

Here it is just before going into the weekend, when I hope to spend hours on it.

Did I have a time with getting this correctly warped! It would have been fine the way it was, I think. I decided to remove the paper from the loom and retie the warps on the bottom. That was a disaster. Then I untied the warps at the bottom again, pull the warps through the already woven part of the tapestry, tied them as tightly as I could and knotted them with a surgeon’s knot and a half-hitch. I decided not to roll the warp onto the bottom beam until I have a few more inches woven on it. What a pain this was. I ended up with tension slightly worse than I did before I decided to be a perfectionist, but it will be just fine.

I wish that this loom had crank handles and brakes on the beams, but I guess I’ll learn with practice.

Yikes.

Gah. Pam told me that I needed a bigger hem so I simply pulled my cartoon up to the level where I left off and started over there. Details: