Back to Work

I have done three loads of washing since yesterday morning. The only thing left damp is a very thick sweater laid out on a towel. I left my bit of the house in a shambles and all has been tidied up. But most of the day has been spent on the Schacht. Firstly I replaced a load of wood screws with the correct Schacht ones, installed a knob they missed out and checked that I could fold the loom up and moved it about on the castors. Then I worked on the draft for the first warp for the Schacht. I had selected a plaited twill and the yarn but realised when plowing through the snow in Iceland, that the repeat is about a third of an inch. So I looked through the stash and selected some silk and merino but it was in four different colours, pale blue, lilac, dark blue and dark purple which I will use as a mixture, mind you, a carefully orchestrated mixture. Oh and the scale of the repeat is now one inch.