One of the things weaving and writing share is unweaving and discarding false starts. I didn't love the twill enough to keep it. Too many things I should have done differently in the set up. Unwove it and started over, adding in the left over self-stripping sock yarns. I'm liking it. It will be simple but the yarn is soft and I think it will make a good scarf after all. I am pushed now to remember how to properly set up the selvages, providing double threading the reed at the margins to get a nice solid edge. The twill was a bit of a mess with too many floats and I just couldn't bring myself to finish it because I knew I would be always looking at the messy edge.
On a funny note, my fitbit step tracker apparently thinks pounding the treadles all afternoon is the same as walking and awarded me 10K steps by mid-afternoon.
I am happy with the soft grey wool and the inserts of self-stripping sock yarn that feel very calm and at home among the warp.
Midori Snyder is the author of nine books for children and adults, published in English, French, Dutch, and Italian. She won the Mythopoeic Award for The Innamorati, a novel inspired by early Roman myth and the Italian "Commedia dell'Arte" tradition....
