So my permawarp (as I’ve been calling it in my head) worked but not everything is perfect in loom land. Despite David and Julya helping me my warp got tangled going on, and a thread snapped! No matter—we found it, threaded it back through the heddle and beater, and tied the thread back together.
Buuut then, after everything was all wound on and ready to go…
That’s a slot in the beater with no thread in it. It was too late at this point to start the warp over again, and I wasn’t about to waste the work or let this ruin the piece.
The missing warp thread was thankfully close to the centre on the right side, so I just dropped two threads to the left of it in regular intervals to make a pattern of sorts. I also didn’t want the dropped warp threads becoming a nuisance throughout the weaving process, so I found a way to keep them winding on without getting in the way. It’s sort of hard to explain so here are some photos:
Long story short—I feel you mess something up, or if something just is messed up, you can still figure out a way to make it work and make it look beautiful.
Oh also this yarn is super textured and gets caught on itself so this keeps happening:
And that’ll about do it for today.