{"id":62,"date":"2013-03-08T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T23:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/?p=62"},"modified":"2013-10-27T18:40:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T01:40:58","slug":"ms-and-o-hecks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.schafenfreude.com\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"M’s and O-Hecks"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m finally plowing along on getting my vest fabric going (yes, still behind) but I’m going to say that the gamp fabric counted as a sample, so I’m half way there. Maybe it’s a bit of cheating, but given how much I liked the twill once it was finished, I’m sure it’ll make it’s way into a garment at some point. Even Chris approved of it. “This’d be a nice jacket, I think.” On to the second fabric. Weaving with finer and finer yarns seems to be my current path and this was a chance to start digging into the 2\/26 mill ends I picked up from Webs last year. I’ve got four colors – navy, light pink, and two tans – a dark and a light. There’s definitely enough there to make a sizeable piece of fabric so putting on a sample warp isn’t a dead end. Also, if you recall, I’d been reading an old Shuttle Craft that had a series of articles on M’s and O’s done with a new “Drapery Cotton”. I’m inferring that this is equivalent to the 8\/2 unmercerized that I use for dishtowels, but that wasn’t going to be anywhere near fine enough for what I wanted. Enter the 2\/26. After doing research, both from the article and from poring over other projects, I decided to just sett the fabric for a plain weave as a starting point, and then sett a subsequent piece a little closer. Also, the M’s and O’s are a four-shaft pattern (though Harriet Tidball has an expanded one on six or more shafts to yield a true tabby) so it’d be uncomplicated to start. Famous last words. Anyway, on to details: <\/p>\n