Day 166: Ready, sett...weave! I've missed the last several Weave-Alongs because my looms were all occupied with projects. Currently, both Max and Schacht are tied up (oops...accidental word-play there) with Friend Evelyn and Norse Kitchen respectively, but my 16" rigid heddle just happened to be empty. I'll be making a runner five feet long on 215 threads plus two floating selvedges using 8/2 cotton supplemented with 3/2 with a 15-dent reed. The draft is from Betty Linn Davenport's "Textures and Patterns for Rigid Heddle Looms." I dithered back and forth with the colour scheme, and right up to the last minute, I still wasn't settled. I picked up the nautical blue I had out and said, "Nope, that's just not what I want to do with this green." I had to choose between two aquas and went for the brighter one. I'm a little ahead of the game because we start on April 1, but since this is a fill-in project while I work on the overshots and finish binding a quilt I want to ship in the next two weeks, I decided to get warping out of the way. I won't start weaving the honeycomb until April. Promise!
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