Card Weaving take 2: Leaves: Success!

After last time's failure, I switched to some GTT patterns. After hunting around the interwebs to figure how to read the patterns (thank you broken old word doc manual) I warped up the first leaves pattern. 14 cards. 2 colors. I only partly warped it, which maybe caused the warp to not stay tight. It also meant I couldn't use the tension bar. Next time I need to continuous warp it and see how that fixes it.
Enough with the learning, let's see the trim!

I'd call it a success! 

Need to work on how tight the weft is. The trim lost 5mm from beginning to end. Also, remembering to pull the little wft loop tight in so the edges aren't bumpy. Also need to keep all the warp the same tension, which I need to figure out when the pattern has a salvage because the edges were tighter than the pattern warps. 

Finished specs:

Pattern: GTT Leaves - 14CT-Leaves-2

Fiber: Aunt Lydia's crochet thread classic size 10 in white and peacock

Cards: 14

Length: 56cm

Starting width:16mm

Ending width: 11mm

And, I think my pattern marker is pretty nifty

It's a galvanized steel hanging decoration from Michael's hot glued onto the back of my pattern binder. The marker is a magnet sheet glued onto a piece of transparent file folder cut to shape and a popsicle stick. 

Tablet weaving attempt 1: Mim's Kivrim

Got a wonderful little card tablet at Pennsic War this year from Pine Box Traders. I decided to sand, stain, and seal it because I just bought a ""teaching" loom because that's what I could afford and I already had the stain and seal.

Picked up some Aunt Lydia's Crochet thread classic size 10 in black, white, and peacock. Super cheap from JoAnn's with a coupon.

I tried to warp up this

from http://mimbles.com/tablet-weaving/pattern-library/

I thought I would save some thread on a practice run by not warping the whole length of the loom. However, I didn't use the tension peg in my ingenuity

, so I couldn't loosen it up as the threads tightened.

Double and triple checked by warp. Handy cloak pins are handy.

But this is the result

Not the pattern. Seems like it's just the points of the horn that are messed up. I tried a couple things to make them show up which is why it's not the same. The directions call for "twisting" the cards, which is kind of weird. Don't like it. And now the threads are too tights to keep rotating. So, that's done.

Next time I will try a pattern from someone else.