Weaving the kaftan cloth turned out to be so much more challenging than I anticipated due to underestimating how much time I would need to complete the project, but I also underestimated the physical toll that sitting at the loom for so many hours/days would take on me.
There are so many “firsts” for me, though,and I learned so much, that I wouldn’t trade the experience for anything.
- First time skeining yarn from a cone. (Yeah, I know.)
- First time I hand-dyed yarn for weaving.
- First time weaving my own design.
- First time using this size yarn and this sett.
- First time really working through sett issues by sampling.
- First time really *needing* help to get through the dying, measuring the warp, sleying and threading.
- First time winding onto to card board pirns.
- First time winding onto the pirn from a skein swift, with wool yarn that had been ‘worked’.
- First time using my new Bluster Bay end feed low profile shuttle.
I”m really happy and proud of what I accomplished (with awesome help from my friends). I can’t wait to see it turned into the kaftan.
- Sexy shot of completed Kaftan cloth.
- The underside of the cloth as it wraps over the knee beam and around the cloth beam.
- I spent so much of my spare time at the loom that I asked my husband to McGyver me an ipad holder so I could listen to movies on Netflix.
- The obligatory “I’m done!” picture.
- The kaftan fabric after washing and drying (on low). Yes, I wash my wool cloth
- Closeup of the woven pattern.
Bravo!