So I think everything is official now. I’m going back to work full time in a library in Tucson. Since weaving will forever be important to me and I want to continue to do as much as I can when working full time, I’m trying to get as many looms warped before I start next week.

So the past two days, I’ve been working on warping my rigid heddle loom. And since I want to try weaving a larger piece of fabric (possibly to make into an article of clothing), I warped the full two feet across – 130 slots and 130 holes.

I found two mistakes where I had doubled up on threads, but by the time I found them, I just decided to let it ride and see how it works. I’m using linen warp in gold and brown. (Someone with more experience than I have, told me that it was linen.)

We had a day of rain a couple of days ago and yesterday it was so nice and cool that I wanted to work outside. So that meant I needed to rearrange the outdoor space for working outdoors. After I got that all done, then I could finish the threading and tying.

I definitely put in lots of listening time to my current audiobook while working on this project. I’m listening to Djinn City by Saad Z. Hossain. It’s an urban fantasy set in Bangladesh involving djinns. It’s a very long book and I’m finally down to the last hour.

I might actually be able to get my inkle loom warped in that time. I’ve gotten a lot faster at warping that loom. And I promised myself an easy back and forth design after the complicated pickup design I finished about a month ago.

As I was looking at my woven belts the other day, I recognized how much I’ve grown as a weaver in the last year. It was about a year ago that I started weaving on an inkle loom. My first belt came out so crude and I love it.

While I don’t have a design picked out yet for my next belt, I know it will have greens and brown in it.