The two nights ago I was winding on the fabric I’d just woven on the Peri Peri Floor Rug when the back roller, pulled by the weight of the blind backing fabric I use instead of paper for separating the warp, unrolled itself.

When I wound it back on the tension was all wrong. I tried cutting the warp at the back and tying it on but, while the warp is closer to even than it was, there are loose ends and the fabric is now wonky:

I’m having to unweave about 2 hours worth of weaving. And it seems like unweaving is slower than weaving, as you have to wind the yarn back onto the shuttle as well as manhandle the loose ends.

This next weaving experience wasn’t so much a disaster as an interesting discovery. The pieces of cloth I’d woven out of roving a few weeks back needed to be felted. They were a bit too fragile as they were. I tried felting by hand but wasn’t making much progress, so I threw them in the front loader. While we can’t ‘interrupt’ the cycle on our machine, you can simply turn it off and on again then change to a spin cycle to drain the machine.

The woven roving felted very well, but boy did it shrink!

Down to two-thirds it’s initial width. A bit small for cushions now, so I’m going to have to think of something else to make out of them. So far I’m thinking of crocheting a strip of cream wool between them, then a border all around, and make it a lap rug.

Note for the future: woven roving shrinks a LOT!