Day 124: Looms seldom stand empty in this house for more than 24 hours. Almost always, there is a "warp in waiting" wound on a warping board, next in line to follow whatever project I'm close to finishing. I'd been thinking about krokbragd sheep as I approached the end of the red-and-green band I posted a few days ago, but then remembered that the "Crackle Weave Fantasy" tablecloth (HPB, green version, p. 196, VI) needed trim. The sheep would have to wait. Using two of the four colours from the tablecloth, I ran eight yards of warp with nine doubled pattern threads for my design. The border chains are threaded singly. When I weave a patterned band on Nelda (my Glimakra band loom), I put the ground and border threads through heddles, but I run the pattern threads straight through with empty heddles on either side of them to keep them from twisting together. This arrangement means that when I open the shed, the pattern threads are suspended between the top and bottom layers of background. Between the posts, I use the band knife to pick up the ones I need, transfer them to the shed with my hand, reiinsert the knife in the shed and then pass the shuttle. It's a little slower going than if I had heddled the pattern threads, but I find it much easier to see what I'm doing, and there's no danger of accidentally picking up a ground thread while manipulating the pattern threads.
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