Monday, October 12, 2015

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. 

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