Now that we’ve started talking about how we’ll approach the coming months, I feel like I want to do prep-work. And, since structure and color are both of interest to me, it’s time to get off my duff and accomplish something I’ve been meaning to do for two years. I’m going to make Janet Phillip’s twill gamp from Designing Woven Fabrics.
Please look past the Master Class portion of the website (I’m weeping as I read this, BTW, and hoping that Chris gets posted to Europe for two years sooner rather than later) and note the book on the right. I purchased it some time ago, full of “white hot excitement” and then put it aside as I simply wasn’t ready. I’m absolutely ready now. And, I even have the yarns to prove it.
The book calls for 2/6 cotton – I’m substituting 2/5 cotton so that I can use the 2/10 for the wide sett portion. I’m also going to use the Baby Wolf since the tie-ups are so easy to change. It’s going to need every last centimeter of that 26″ weaving width but that’s just fine. It’ll be fabulous. And today’s the day to wind the warp, beam and hopefully thread.
Yarns: Valley Fibers “Valley Cottons”
Warp: 5/2 Mercerized Perle Cotton (2100 ypp) in White and Light Blue, 10/2 Mercerized Perle Cotton (4200 ypp) in White
Weft: 5/2 Mercerized Perle Cotton (2100 ypp) in Dark Blue and Light Blue
494 ends plus 18 selvedge on each side, for 530 ends overall. Sett is 20 epi, except the 10/2 section which is at 40 epi
And bless her soul, she even gives heddle counts, by shaft. Thank goodness.
Off to wind. Can’t wait.
Hey, you started! No fair! I’ve been champing at the bit, ready to post, and here you are already. Harrumph. (It’s fine, really – good, even.) I suppose I ought to figure out how to get an email when someone posts here.
As for that master class – yeah, I hear you. There’s a master weaving class offered nearby at the Hill Institute in Florence, MA, and I waver back and forth as to whether I should get on the waiting list for it. I’m sure I would learn a lot, but frankly, I’m a very good student/follower and not so good at making my own way, so that’s what I need to practice.
To that end, I’m thinking of signing up for a two-day class with Margo Selby at the New England Weavers Seminar in Northampton, MA, this summer (wanna come?) – her book is way, waaay outside my usual comfort level, so I think the class would be good for me.