Fiber Monday - A whole lotta warp

Before I get to talking about warps, I have a couple of other things to share first. Here is some handspun that I finally finished and got off the wheel. 




It's a 2-ply Merino, and I wasn't sure I loved it at first. It's for the holiday sale, so I decided to wind it into a set of mini-skeins which I would them dye each of them a different color using natural dyed. The skein on the right is actually a prettier green in person (you know me and photographs). It was dyed with bindweed, which I have in abundance. I think I'll do goldenrod next because it is in bloom. 

After I had mordanted this batch, I actually ended up liking the yarn more. It's now incredibly fluffy and bouncy.


The other thing I wanted to share was my bodice Muslim that I drafted. The pattern drafting class I had been taking is meeting again, and we are now to the place where we are creating pattern blocks for ourselves. This is to my measurements and we'll do the first fitting on Wednesday. I still need to pin the shoulders together. 


And now to the warps. That would be three warps which equal over 13,000 yards of yarn. See?


The white is for guest towels, the multi-colored is for dinner napkins, and there is a little short warp tucked in there for a weaving class I'm taking later this month. It was a lot. 

The next step is to tie the light warp into my already threaded loom. While it's not a fast process, it is much faster than threading a whole new warp. This is what it currently looks like. 


It's those few ends on the left that I still need to tie.


The rest of the fifteen yards is held together in bunches and tucked out of the way.


It will be a relief to get it all wound on, because even though I have done this before, it is a little stressful having that much warp laying about and only vaguely contained. My goal is to be weaving by the end of the week.

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