Top-of-the-Waves Tuesday...
...and the weekend report.
We had an early Mother's Day with the Husband's mother on Thursday. Her facility is very good about having special luncheons for their residents and their families to enjoy. I gave the Seaside Dreams quilt to my MIL as her Mother's Day gift.
When I got back to the office, my new 12-dent reed had arrived...hooray!
Friday afternoon and Saturday were spent doing the laundry and working on the Shimmering Points Wrap [Ravelry]. I spaced the warp out across the raddle, trying to keep all the threads untwisted. I didn't have wide enough paper to wind the warp, so I went through my collection of paper bags and found 3 extra large craft bags that I cut apart to use.
I wound the warp onto the back beam, keeping the threads straight. It looks good! Then I cut the ends to be ready to thread the heddles.
Sunday, we met The Daughter for lunch at our favorite Peruvian restaurant. We had a wonderful meal and a great time catching up with her. She gave me some roses and some tamales (yum!) that she got at the local farmers market.
I added the roses to the bouquet that she sent me on Friday. They are gorgeous!
I spent the rest of Sunday afternoon threading the heddles. I immediately ran into a problem. When the shop installed the metal heddles for harnesses 1, 4, and 7, some of the heddles got crossed. I had to find the instructions online on how to take the harnesses off and remove the heddles. Fortunately, it's a relatively easy procedure, just time-consuming because you need to make sure not to cross any of the other heddles I discovered that there was enough slack between the heddles and the heddle bar that I could use a cabled knitting needles (US2) as a "lifelines" for each end of the heddles that I needed to remove. After fixing the crossed heddles, it was easy to slide the removed heddles back onto the bar. Whew!
As a result of having to fix the harnesses, I did not get very far into the threading process. I need to wait for the weekend to work on this again. Unfortunately, we have a family wedding to attend this weekend, so my craft time will be limited.
I'm making slow progress on the Estrella Marina Shawl [Ravelry]. I'd make more progress if I didn't work on it while I was watching Game of Thrones!
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We had an early Mother's Day with the Husband's mother on Thursday. Her facility is very good about having special luncheons for their residents and their families to enjoy. I gave the Seaside Dreams quilt to my MIL as her Mother's Day gift.
When I got back to the office, my new 12-dent reed had arrived...hooray!
Friday afternoon and Saturday were spent doing the laundry and working on the Shimmering Points Wrap [Ravelry]. I spaced the warp out across the raddle, trying to keep all the threads untwisted. I didn't have wide enough paper to wind the warp, so I went through my collection of paper bags and found 3 extra large craft bags that I cut apart to use.
I wound the warp onto the back beam, keeping the threads straight. It looks good! Then I cut the ends to be ready to thread the heddles.
Sunday, we met The Daughter for lunch at our favorite Peruvian restaurant. We had a wonderful meal and a great time catching up with her. She gave me some roses and some tamales (yum!) that she got at the local farmers market.
I added the roses to the bouquet that she sent me on Friday. They are gorgeous!
I spent the rest of Sunday afternoon threading the heddles. I immediately ran into a problem. When the shop installed the metal heddles for harnesses 1, 4, and 7, some of the heddles got crossed. I had to find the instructions online on how to take the harnesses off and remove the heddles. Fortunately, it's a relatively easy procedure, just time-consuming because you need to make sure not to cross any of the other heddles I discovered that there was enough slack between the heddles and the heddle bar that I could use a cabled knitting needles (US2) as a "lifelines" for each end of the heddles that I needed to remove. After fixing the crossed heddles, it was easy to slide the removed heddles back onto the bar. Whew!
As a result of having to fix the harnesses, I did not get very far into the threading process. I need to wait for the weekend to work on this again. Unfortunately, we have a family wedding to attend this weekend, so my craft time will be limited.
I'm making slow progress on the Estrella Marina Shawl [Ravelry]. I'd make more progress if I didn't work on it while I was watching Game of Thrones!
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