The End Is Near!

Day 182: The end is near! That would be the end of "Friend Evelyn," you understand. I have roughly three feet to go on a 24-foot warp, and it will be ready to take off the loom in a few days, Catlet permitting. I have to say that while the front side places this pattern in my favourite overshots, the reverse is totally boring! Many times, the weaver has to make a judgment call on overshots...which side should be "up"...but with Friend Evelyn, it's obvious. That said, the face of the fabric more than makes up for the back's shortfall because it shows four motifs in a 2 x 2 grid, no two alike. Strangely enough, the treadling sequence was very easy to remember, and by the time I had woven a foot of cloth, I had it memorized. Now I need to dedicate myself to tying the last 200 of 600 string heddles and winding 1022 ends on the warping board for a shawl in my familyn tartan. Max may wind up sitting empty for a few days while I work on that part of the project.