OK so I was saying to Liz last night 'Why all this fuss about an even tension on the warping board? Everything gets retensioned when beaming, right?' Another lesson learned!
The yarn I'm using for the vest is an acryllic mix and is really stretchy (I'm using up some yarns left over from Liz's knitting maching). Also it comes on knitting balls, not round but cylindrical figure of 8 balls - in this case huge ones. So I'm putting 180 warps of approx 9'6" (3m) on the board and the yarn is coming off the ball unevenly, wrapping around my legs, the table legs, the chair legs and the warping board pegs (wrong ones). I was really glad we don't have dogs, cats or small children for it to find. Still after about 60-90 mins I've got 180 warps and although I know the tension is irregular in places I'm not sure it's too bad and anyway, surely, it doesn't matter too much.
So tie up the cross, put a few choke knots around and lift the warp off the board to watch every other thread shrink back and leave me with this horrible knarly skein of warp - aargh!!
Still hopefully I'll get chance to get it on the loom this weekend and if it looks too tangled all I've lost is my time.
Off to the local weavers guild for the first time - think I'll take something small so just going to warp up the Tornadowood mini-inkle. Hopefully it will be a rarity here in S England and so become a talking point to help introduce myself.
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