Warping The Big Inkle

Day 48: Nothing preys on my mind quite so much as an empty loom. For some months now, the big inkle has been serving as a cat-baffle in a location forbidden to Merry, its pegs sufficient to render access almost impossible. It's been driving me nuts to have it sitting unused, so now that he's bigger, I was able to replace it with something else, and spent yesterday warping it to its full capacity of 110". So anxious was I to start inkling on it again that I didn't consider how difficult it was going to be for my old eyes to see the threads of a rich blue 10/2 cotton ground. I keep getting them on the wrong side of the nine 8/2 white pattern threads as I do Baltic pickup.And that's not the only woopsie I keep making. The last band I wove contained seven pattern threads, so my verbal shorthand of "3-1-3" means something different with nine threads, namely that the first and last are ignored in this case. Had I chosen to use 11, 15, 21...anything with more than just one more thread on each side...I wouldn't have confused myself quite so thoroughly. That said, now that I'm a few motifs into the band, my thinker is beginning to readjust. Better lighting is helping with the thread pickup issues as well. As I've mentioned a few times recently, I currently have the attention span of a gerbil, working on any one project until I've completed a single motif, then moving over to the spinning wheel to spin up a six-inch chunk of wool, then knitting five rounds on a sock. I suppose it doesn't matter because my hands are always busy, and I complete every project, usually bringing three or four to fruition within days of each other. Now Inky-Dinky Inkle is empty, giving me baleful glances from the shelf. I have to do something about that fairly soon.