Marking Progress

 

one repeat in the warp with the right selvedge 'border'

Yesterday I cut off and re-tied the warp with about 4 or maybe 5 more towels to be woven left on the loom.

Obviously it was time to start thinking about my next warp.

Since I'm still having issues with sinkholes in my brain, I decided to tweak the current warp (tweaked from the couple previous warps) and KISS.  

I have one more large cone of the 2/15 cotton left, which will not quite (I think) finish the next warp, so whatever is left will be woven with the singles 6 yarn.   There are 3 of the large cones left of that.  I had thought of doing a waffle weave, but after wet finishing the sample decided that probably won't work very well.  Instead I'll keep playing with a fairly simple threading progression and rather than an 'extreme' towel, will settle for the more subtle texture of the single 6 on the same type of twill I have been playing with.  

The single 6 still has a high level of twist energy left in the yarn and as soon as it gets wet, it tends to spring back to twist and turn and create a 3D effect.  The float length is about 5 ends in warp and weft, so not terrible given 32 epi.  The ppi will be different because the weft will be thicker than the warp, so I'll do a guestimate of how many ppi per towel and figure it out for the *next* warp after this one.  I might even not do a hard press to preserve the 3D effect.  Will know better once I do another sample.

The current warp will remain on the loom for a few more days because I need to take a 'light duty' day tomorrow.  I'll see how I feel on the following day, if I need another light duty day, or if I try weaving.

It depends on how the treatment tomorrow goes.

I am finally(?) learning the lesson of not taking my body for granted, insisting that it push through to deadline.  I'm 'retired'.  There is no more 'deadline' pressure.  Who knows, maybe I will learn to listen to my body when it cries 'uncle'...