Day 63: I finished weaving Pippin's first band this morning (borders), three yards of a simple design using only five doubled pattern threads (the lavender "broken S" running up the center). The borders were loom-generated, i.e., I just had to thread them through the right heddles and the loom did the rest as I changed sheds. It went very quickly. I had already measured a longer warp (four yards this time), and as soon as I took the finished band off, I began winding it on. I had just reached the point where I was going to divide the threads as they passed through the raddle (a spacing device), but I seemed to be one short. Sure enough, I'd missed one when I was measuring. Because I wasn't very far in, this was an easy fix: just pull the warp back through, tie on the necessary thread and begin winding again, and it would have been just that simple if Murphy hadn't been paying a visit. "POP!" Suddenly, I had a slack thread, and it was the one I'd just tied on. I knew exactly what had happened. I'd tied it around one of the lease sticks as well as the warp rod. Fortunately, I'd allowed extra when I cut the thread. Murphy vanquished, I finished winding the warp and am now ready to get serious with the threading.
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