Actually weaving's the hard part - it took several headers to get the warp straight (probably means I had it spaced too close on the front bar). Even without worrying about selvage it was so easy to snag a shed with that white plastic shuttle and pickup the wrong thread.
Using a proper wooden stick shuttle made it so much easier, using a boat shuttle easier still. Oh, and now I realise why Deborah Chandlers weaves barefoot, it's so easy to pick up an extra shaft by accident (see white blobs in the fuschia tabby below).
Still it's a learning exercise, on the whole it's pretty fair for a first effort. The two yarns have differing elasticity so the weaving tends to pucker a bit on the darker warps (another learning experience).
Here's me weaving
Me weaving
and here's the result so far:
weaving
Yes - the hatpin is holding in a new warp thread to replace the one I broke (I don't know how). Fixing is surprisingly easy. OK the weave is uneven, the selvages are rough but it is weaving and it interesting experimenting with tabby and simple twill but I do need to read the book badly now as I have no idea what I'm doing or what to try next!
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