Starting Over-Again

 

If you've been wondering what ever happened to that warp I had on the loom, here it is. Yep. I murdered it just like I murdered the one that came before it. 

I've become a serial warp murderer. This time, as before, there were just too many mistakes to overcome. First, the color order of the plaid was off. There's a way to make it symmetrical and I forgot all about that. I could have overcome that problem but up popped another. I had one heddle that was loose. It didn't get threaded on right when I counted them out. I tied it on and it seemed to work. 

I could have gotten over that but the final straw was that I had mis-thread one of them making a very ugly place right in the middle of the towel. In the past, I would have toughed it out by re-doing it thread by thread to fix it but my back wasn't going to let me do all that up and down stuff so I cut it all loose. 

I've got a huge stash of weaving cotton so why fuss about a handful when I can just start over. 

As my penance, I'm going to make the ugliest towel you could ever imagine by just using up my scraps in no particular order. This is a test to see if I can go from start to finish without making any stupid mistakes. I'm betting not.

I've gone from making things like this to not even being able to get a simple twill going. Cognitive decline or just hubris? To be determined.