Wow, Deb, that is very cool!

Thanks!

I've been trying to upload a photo of my finished color and weave gamp, but today the upload sprites are being, um, playful.

I'm thrilled with it. When I started, I didn't think I could ever do it and by gosh, I did it! I think I'm going to do a lot more of it, too, because I warped 8 yards.

I felt exactly the same, Cynthia. In fact I wasn’t even interested in doing it at first, but it kind of grew on me after watching it again. Now I’m thrilled I did it. Anxious to see yours when the uploading sprites are in the mood! 🤣

I tried to upload the picture again, twice. Neither one worked. I'm not sure what's wrong.

I'm going to tie the warp back on to the warp beam and do some more weaving on it. I'm curious about what a blocks of navy blue, apricot, white will look like. And I'm definitely going to make a couple towels.

But for now, I need to get some exercise after a 2-hour geology lecture that took me a bit over 3 hours to listen to in replay and take notes. I feel positively creaky!

Making this warp today almost had me in tears. Five of my seven cones had knots in them, and they only showed up when I was trying to run 4 or 5 threads at a time. And of course, trying to fix it on the warping board resulted in tangled messes. Next time I do multiple threads, if there's a knot, I'm going to leave it and fix it on the loom. For now, the elastics are holding it in place on the warping board, the cross is tied & secured and a few more chokes are further down the length. I'm taking a break and having a drink before I chain it off. LOL. I'll dress the loom tomorrow and I look forward to weaving the gamp.

Sometimes taking time away is the necessary next step. Learning to fix a knot on the loom has saved my bacon numerous times when I chose not to fix it while warping (same situation as you, too complex to wind back). You’ll know when the knot comes to the reed because there will be gentle popping as it passes through the reed, indicating it’s time for the fix, before the knot comes undone.

Wow, that's really brilliant! Thank you. So far, I've been able to fix the knots on the warping board, but there will come a day...

Scott, I used a comb for the 5-thread warp bundle. It just hurt my hands too much to do otherwise. I threaded the comb and then put a rubber band around the top of the teeth to secure the threads. I had to reverse the comb (up/down) when I changed directions on the warping board. It took a few tries to get ti to work, but it worked pretty well. I'll try to upload the picture.

https://ibb.co/2NQgbs2

I agree with TLC that sometimes walking away is the best strategy. I'm trying to learn to do so more often.

Finished my color and Weave Sample. I might need to work on my squaring a little.

With the the Apricot stripes, I realize that it makes a difference whether you start the next section with a dark or light.

Then I tried a couple of variations, adding more dark or light picks to elongate the pattern.

Probably my favorite is this one where I put together the patterns I liked the most, but also did the Apricot divider in a twill treadling - an idea I got from one of the other student's post.

At the end, I just wove until the warp with some leftover bobbins. Not the greatest color combo, but I thought I would hold the shuttle a little differently, to get a little more slack in the weft. And what a difference it made in the selvedges!

Fabulous, Jason. Looks like you had fun!

Those are great towels/samples of color and weave. thanks for sharing.

I’m having trouble with the center DDDD/LLLL section. After watching the video about 116 times, I still don’t think I understand. Here’s my takeaway:
1. Take two dark strands in your hand and wind on the mill until I have 48. Cut off.
2. Take two more dark and two light strands, tie on, and wind for a total of 48. Cut off.
3. Take two light and two dark, tie on, and wind for 48. Tie off.
4. Take two dark and wind for 48. Tie off.
5 Move to apricot.

I don’t think this is right….but I’m not sure where I’m off. Can anyone help? Thanks.

Hi Donna - deep breath! Are you using the warp colour sequence on page 2 of the Colour & Weave Gamp, Season 2 Sample 2? Your apricot is the divider between the sections of this gamp and you just follow the order that Jane has outlined in the pattern.

Hi Donna,

If you want the 48 threads in your centre section to start with DDDD and end with LLLL, as in the sample, and you want to wind the majority of it with 2D2L in your hand to speed up the process, you can do it this way (see below). The goal is 6 four-thread groups per colour, but to achieve it using 2D2L in your hand for the bulk of it, you need to wind two extra threads on each side of that section to get the 4D or 4L patterning. Like this: 2 ends of D -- 44 ends of 2D/2L - 2 ends of L
My approach:
1. Wind just one length of your warp -- from the "start peg" to the "end peg" just once-- with two D threads in your hand (i.e. don't wind all the way around back to the cross). This will give you two D threads (i.e half of the first DDDD group) at the beginning.

2. While still at the end peg, tie on two L ends to those two D threads in your hand and then continue winding with 4 threads in your hand (2L and 2D) for 11 circuits of your warping board/mill, back to the end peg (which adds 44 threads). You should have a total of 46 threads at this point. By now, you have 6 groups of DDDD and are only two L threads short of the full 6 groups of LLLL.

3. Cut off the D threads and knot the D threads of your warp to the remaining L threads in your hand and wind back to the start peg (just one length of your warp) with those 2 L threads to complete your last group of LLLL. You now have all 48 threads, consisting of 6 stripes of 4D alternating with 6 stripes of 4L.

Thanks everyone for help with my warping question. I’m all wound on with heddles dented and reed sleyed. I’ve now realized that I ‘flipped’ my chained warp right to left. What was wound starting on the right side has ended up on the left side of the loom. I sleyed from left to right, with 1-2 per dent. What I can’t reason in my mind is whether once I start weaving, will I be looking at the top or the bottom of the piece? Or will it make no difference?

I’m used to wrapping my loose ends to the bottom, but I may want to switch it up and pull them to the top.