The room reorganisation isn’t fully done yet, but it’s mostly there. I needed to take a break so my back could heal. A bit of quilt topstitching happened, and some tweaking of a crocheted scarf, and then I found myself tackling the warp on the Jane loom.

Last year… or maybe the year before… I warped up the Jane to weave dishcloths. They have a supplementary warp for the surface pattern, and it ran out before the main warp did. By then I was well tired of weaving dishcloths and planned to cut off the excess and toss it.

But I never got around to it, and when I sorted through my ample collection of thrums I wondered if I had enough in one batch to wind on a new supplemental warp. I found a bundle of yellow, orange and teal cotton that looked promising, and set about winding that onto the loom in three wide stripes. Of course, somehow I counted wrong and came up short, but it was easy enough to add a fourth stripe of green and weight it at the back.

The main warp is 16/2 cotton, woven quite densely because the underlying structure is waffle weave, so there a lot of threads in each dent and I had to do a bit of trouble-shooting when I found some of the supplemental warp threads were in the wrong dent. I didn’t expect to get the rethreading right the first time and after I sorted that one problem was able to weave.

I don’t know if there’s enough of this new supplemental warp to last the rest of the base warp, but if there isn’t I’ll tie on a new supplemental warp rather than having to re-thread the heddles. There might be some more thrums that I can use up. I’ve been on a bit of a thrum-using campaign here.