Day 238: Even when you're prepared for the possibility, it's disheartening when you have to rethink a weaving project. Despite using my table loom for some careful testing of the wool in order to establish the proper thread count necessary to achieve perfect squares in tartan, the floor loom had different ideas. I had woven 12 throws when it became obvious that my "square" was taller than it was wide. No amount of beating would cram 16 passes into the same space, and that meant my sett was too close together at 36 epi. In fact, it was so far off that I am acting on the assumption that my original "guesstimate" of 30 epi would have been correct, and that's what I'm engaged in presently: pulling all the threads out of the reed, changing to a different one, and rethreading. Note: this does not mean I had to re-thread the heddles! I've had to do this on a few other projects over the course of my weaving career, but never with 1024 ends to wrestle! And that said, if an epi of 30 doesn't work, I'll be repeating this process until I get it right. This is going to be an "heirloom" piece, so it has to be perfect.
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