Lets make a Warp

For a first project I'll follow the example in Deborah Chandler's book, 2 yards of 10" weave at 12 ends/inch in 2 contrasting colours. Well I decided on 2.5 yards just to give me plenty to practice with and as an excuse to use up some more of these particularly unmanly pink wools Liz had left over from machine knitting days. The warp will be soft candyfloss pink and vibrant fuschia pink - lovely!!! Actually this was a deliberate choice - this first weave is not likely to be perfect (there's an understatement if there ever was one) so why not deliberately choose colours that help focus on getting technique right rather than worrying about trying to make a good end product?

So check the yarns for size, wrap around a ruler for 1" (harder than it sounds) and count the ends - 24 - exactly right.

Making the warp was easy. My warping board has 3 pegs separate to the rest so making the cross was pretty natural - I didn't forget once. Got interrupted a couple of times with phone calls so glad I used counting threads every 10 warp threads. The 2nd warp I removed the end from the board before tying up the cross - whoops. Just needed to be careful to tie it without disturbing the threads.

Probably took 30-40 mins or so - hard to tell with the interruptions

Here's my warping board - the 'cross posts' are at the top - you might just make out a faint blue wool thread still on it which was my thread that showed how to warp 2.5 yards.

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