Day 253: They say that hindsight is clearer than foresight, and I'm here to tell you just how true that is. In fifty-plus years of weaving, I have thrown away thrums which, had I had the good sense to turn them into something useful by tying them end for end, would have measured in miles and pounds as opposed to yards and ounces. Oh, I managed to half-life quite a few of them, taking three-foot lengths of leftovers from the floor loom and using them for warp on the rigid heddle, but even then, I was discarding enough to make my Scottish conscience grimace. I crocheted some into potholders, used some to tie quilts, but by and large, my stash of thrums was growing faster than I could find ways to employ them. Recently, I discovered zanshiori, the art of making functional cloth from waste thread. I so enjoyed my first project (left) that I immediately warped for a second longer one. And, if the truth be told, I still haven't put a very big dent in the mass of thrums I've accumulated just in the last year or so. I've dubbed the bags I'll make with this cloth "Something From Nothing" projects.
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