In high school, I had a love/hate relationship with Chemistry. I enjoyed *doing* the experiments, hated writing them up.
And now, here I am - a lifetime (pretty much) of doing the experiments, and in some cases, writing them up.
Turns out it was just a *different* science that I enjoyed exploring!
The piles of samples don't look like much, but they represent days of work. What is in the bin are the loom state samples and the two piles represent the two different yarns I was exploring. I'm not going to tell you about them because you will be able to read all about it when (if) the article gets accepted for WEFT.
Today is a 'light' duty day as I have massage at 12:30 and ran out of time to weave this morning. (Truth be told, I just didn't have the spoons.)
When I get home I'm all set up to start going through the samples. First I will match the loom state and wet finished samples, then the comparison between the two will be done for each iteration. This is when I will measure the samples and record the epi/ppi and identify the different yarns used for weft.
Once I have all the stats recorded, I will begin to compare the samples and draw some conclusions - if I can - and perhaps suggest some things that could be done 'next', if anyone wants to take this initial step further.
I don't know that I have enough information to make firm conclusions, but the whole exercise has been quite fascinating. Some things behaved the way I expected; others, not so much.
The big thing when doing this kind of exploration is to keep one's mind open and not to force forgone conclusions on the results.
I have a couple of my own warps in the queue before I tackle the next WEFT FAFO. As usual I need to think about it for a while, consider how to most efficiently approach the FA part of the experiment, then take the information and design some 'examples' to show what I mean. It would be nice to be able to apply what I do to my own weaving (all about the efficiency) so it may take me a while to finish designing the experiments/projects so that I can weave some 'samples' to share in the article.
One thing about advancing age (and health issues that make things difficult) I don't want to waste time! My time/energy banks are vastly diminished these days. Not that I ever seemed to have 'extra', I always worked to the limit of my time/energy. Now I cannot assume that I will have stores of either to draw on so I have to be even smarter about how I do things.
I suppose this is what they mean when they say 'with age comes wisdom'? Perhaps, it is just exhaustion...
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