I finished all the earth-toned warps and still in keeping with using up stashed yarns, went shopping in the bins in the laundry room for both of these projects. On the Flip, we have a wide scarf in “Shawl in a ball” in Healing Teal, and on the big Jack, a rug from black carpet warp with Lion Brand Homespun Thick & Quick in the Lakeside Stripes colorway. It looks like the water in one of Monet’s water lilies paintings.  As much as I love the look of the earthy, “Imagine” warp, I don’t know if I’ll do that again. It was a tough project to weave.

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I like both these projects, so that makes it fun work. I’ve got the big loom working better than it was before, I rotated the hooks on shaft four and fiddled with the brake on the warp beam, and he/she seems happier too. You can see from the pic of the warping board that this is a short one, it’s just 105″ long. It is 28″ wide, and I planned it, with some shrinkage, to work as a runner or on a yoga mat as an extra cushion. We’ll see how that goes. So far the most dramatic result of the experiment has been the pain. Yes, either because of using the warping board on the couch and/or then thinking that since it was a short warp, I could get it on in a day, I have done something awful to my back and have had pain all through my hip to my foot. So that has kept me on naproxen, some Chinese salve I found in a drawer, and a heating pad for the last two days and is limiting me to work on the Flip loom. Don’t worry, I have a plan for next time. I’ll either use the reel or properly hang the warping board. I just wanted to try an idea I had about using the Homespun.