un deux trois il a vingt-neuf ans
(not quite yet, i am early finishing these for my partners birthday)
things to improve
- messy selvages
- terrible seams
- planning and estimating yarn amounts
- planning speed maybe
first time
- doubling up the border threads in the warp for stronger selvages
- making a spreadsheet with all the info - very helpful, could be neater
- using a thinner yarn in the weft for the bits that become the seams. good idea, great idea, a few issues there: edges pulled up even when giving a lot of slack. because of that i only did 3cm of it. which was really not enough for a neat finish and made the seams embarrassingly messy on the back.
- using these weights when beaming the warp
i love them.
very happy with the textures these sequences gave me, want to put together a neat reference to file.
okay so. planning and estimating yarn amounts needed when you don't have information on the yarn because you bought offcuts or how to deal with this.
design wise projects like towels are very suited. making several pieces of sth. on one warp means if you run out of weft material you can just. change it.
figuring out g/m was trickyyy i got different results from calculating it based on a sample and weighing part of the warp. so i took a conservative average to do my calculations. now that i am finished it turns out i could've maybe squeezed in one more towel. hypothetically it could be interesting to instead map out that range a bit more thoroughly and look at that.
overall planning took much longer than anticipated and weaving was a lot quicker. i'm happy i did this last project on my loom, i think i'm ready to sell her now. knowing it's the right decision doesn't make it less of a heartache though ; _ ;
discovered miah_pie on t*ktok (<- i don’t have one btw i just stumbled upon her bc someone i follow on ig talked abt her) and her videos make me want to cry so bad. 24 year old dependent moment
Thank you all for the birthday wishes yesterday. I really, really appreciate it. <3 Hope everyone is having a good holiday season or a relaxing last few days of the year. Hang in there, and take care of yourselves as best you can. Rooting for you all, as always.