Easing Back In.

I'm back from an amazing week at the Textile Forum  - it was a lot of fun, a lot of learning, and a lot of laughing! We made pearls, wove Egyptian warp fringes, a warp-weighted loom got heddled for diamond twill, there was some tablet weaving and some Egtved Skirt trials.

Someone snapped this picture of me while I was trying to get my heddles for the warp fringes made:

I'm still not in the zone where I heddle once and then I'm done. Something is always an issue... sometimes an outright mistake, sometimes a forgotten thread, sometimes the heddles are just so uneven it doesn't work well. Sometimes I drop the stick (always secure your heddle rod! Don't be like me and forget to do it!) and sometimes it's not a real bad mistake, but the heddle wraps around one of the other threads where it should not, and if they are too short, it keeps the shed from opening.

Anyways... I did some heddling, and some more heddling, just like other people. And some weaving. 

Then, at the end of the week, came the sad time to say good-bye to everyone leaving, re-packing the car (which ended up very, very full after all) and going home for a few days of rest.

Now I'm easing back in, catching up on emails, getting everything sorted, and sending out all the orders that came in during my time off. And, well, of course planning for the next European Textile Forum next year... which will have tablet weaving as the focus topic. Already looking forward to that!