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I just took my time getting things ready, and today got a start weaving. Very happy. I just love this class!
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I’m so confused about the warping math. I’ve only used the warping board 3 or 4 times with very simple one color warps, and I always have to remind myself that a complete circuit of the board actually produces 2 ends, from starting peg, 6 yards up and around the cross, and 6 yards back down to the starting peg. But, when faced with instructions for 44 holding 4 threads in the hand, I divided 44/4=11 and did 11 circuits getting, I realized too late, 88 ends, which is where it sits, waiting for me to cut out and toss a bunch of yarn.
As I look ahead at the rest of the warp instructions, I see next 45 ends, by holding 3 threads in hand. Heck (as Jane might say), anyone can see that 45 divided by 3 is 15, so 15 circuits holding 3 threads. Easy-peas—whoops! Forgot again that each circuit equals 2 ends, but 15/2=7.5. Not sure what to do with the .5 half circuit. Do I just tie that group off up at the cross, then tie on the next group back down at the usual start peg?
Sorry for the rank beginner question.
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Hi Maureen,
Yes, you would cut the three threads at the cross end and tie the next (apricot), you’ll end up again after your 4 apricot at the top so cut and tie the next sequence at cross end. As what to do with the ones that you put on extra, if your loom is wide enough you could leave them in and have one nice extra wide section for this sequence. I’ve done this a few too many times in the past and what I’ve done is round up extra hands in the house, each grab a cone and start winding the cones simultaneously while taking them off the warping board. It’s a bit of a chore, but we’ve had some good laughs doing it. Usually the laughs are at my expense 😉
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Hi Kids,
The sequences in the Colour and Design Gamp are simply ‘sequences’ and not all sequences in weaving have an even number nor do you have to repeat them a certain number of times to make them an even number. It doesn’t matter if they start at the top or the bottom because each length is its own individual length. The bottom is one end of the warp and the top is the other. When I am warping with 3 ends in my hand I count by 3’s no matter where I start. If I am starting and the bottom it is 3 up, then 6 at the bottom, 9 up top, 12 at the bottom, 15 up top (and if I only want 5 repeats of that sequence then I end it there and move on to the next sequence. You could also go back to the warping videos in Season 1 Episode 1 and watch how I do this.
Let me know if this makes sense,
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I have wound my warp for all sections up to the last one. So far, this method of warping with multiple threads has helped me “stretch” quite a bit! HAH! I’ve reviewed the video in season 1 episode 1. I’m stuck on proceeding with the last section and 5 ends. How did others get this done please? What advice about this many threads Jane?
Thanks!
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I am laughing so hard my sides hurt…..are they big enough pictures for you? I was feeling so proud of myself posting my first pictures. Too funny.
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Thanks, Jane, for your reply. I’m done! Maybe cutting off and tossing a big pile of yarn has drilled into me that it’s 2 ends to a total circuit. I toyed with the idea of trying to save that bit and using it for the later 44 end group. All I’d need to do is remove one white thread and replace it with a dark one – or maybe it was the other way around. But I came to my senses and gave myself an early St. Patrick’s Day gift and tossed the whole lot.
Things I’ve learned: it may not be fun, but it saves on the shoulders, so it’s worth getting comfortable with it; find some nice smooth shoeboxes without external flaps and folds that catch every thread; likewise replace the knitting needles with dowels cut to fit the boxes that hopefully won’t catch every thread; if you don’t replace the knitting needles, TURN THE POINTS AWAY FROM YOU; and remember that Jane said not to go too fast or you’ll be sorry, because I did, and I was.
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Hello to all,
I had a problem beaming on this warp and I’m wondering if anyone else had the same issue? My problem is that I ended up with quite a few threads twisting on each other. Any ideas why this might have happened? Not all sections of the gamp had twisted ends I used a paddle for some of the sections and these were ok. Any ideas? I ended up cutting off the gamp and my first tea towel to untwist some threads. I also added a repeat of the first section at the end of the gamp to make the towels wider.
Thank you
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Beautiful Jacqueline, and it looks like you are having fun!
Your post of March 10th might be helpful to some – it was “caught” in the move of posts when I moved posts to one thread on the Colour and Weave Gamp. If you still want me to delete it – I will, but I don’t see a problem. You were showing us how you divided up a huge cone of blue yarn to prepare for your sample.
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The adventure continues. I’m threading heddles and I’ve gotten to the DDDD/LLLL section, and I discovered I warped it backwards as LLLL/DDDD. I’m afraid I heard Jane’s example in the video where she mentions as an example starting with LL, so I did that, ignoring that the pattern started with DD and that she started with DD when showing the lease sticks.
Is this a big problem? Can I just weave LLLL/DDDD and it’ll turn out OK?
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I’ve got a question about sett. I would like to use some of my warp to make a wrap/shawl along the lines of the gamp shown in the first season. I remember Jane saying that is was woven in 8/4 cotton at a sett of 12. She described it as being like “buttah” the drape was so exceptional. Is it possible to get the same drape with 8/2 cotton? I did a version of 8/2 sett at 12 on the asymmetry sample and with carefully placing the picks to get a balanced cloth the selvedge on one side came out pretty wonky. For all of its sheerness it wasn’t really wearable to my mind. The best beat at that sett was 14-15. Would I add 12 and 15 and divide by two to get a balanced cloth that would work? Many thanks in advance!
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Hi Clare,
yes, you’re process is correct. It’ll give you 13.5 but might as well sett it at 14. Put a bit more length on your warp when you make it so you can sample a bit first. If the sample doesn’t turn out for you, then you can always resley to a different sett and still have enough to make your shawl.
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Thanks Ginette, for that quick response! Do you think that using, say, 8/2 tencel in the weft might improve the overall wearability as a shawl? Even at the proper sett I’m not convinced that cotton on cotton is going to have the proper finish. What do you think?
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I’ve woven at 16 epi with 2/8 cotton as warp & weft and I liked that quite a bit, makes it drapy and still a good piece of cloth for a shawl. As for tencel, I’ve only woven once (as weft) with it along with the 2/8 cotton (as warp) and they seemed to behave the same. Maybe someone else has more experience with it. I’ve also done it with bambu 7 which I really liked that effect. I would definitely do some sampling.
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Sample two is done! Another enjoyable weaving experience. I needed to get some tea towels done so I didn’t change the sett on this one and made 6 towels. The only problem I had was I had several twisted threads not sure why. If anyone has any ideas I’d love to hear them.
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This is only my second time using a floor loom ! I love this opportunity to be part of this guild and the format works wonderful for me.
I really enjoyed weaving this gamp. I think would be fun to do again. I wish I had used floating selvedges. I know I could have added them and will keep that in mind for the next time.
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My gamp will get a little bigger (-: cause I use handspun yarn I think it will be a fine blanket
I love to discover all the “new” patterns which come out
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So much fun! My gamp is the the beginning of my own Color-and-Weave library. I am still working on this warp but I just had to cut and finish this bits to see how my weft variations are behaving. So far I love them all! I introduced 8/2 tencel to the weft, a combo of 2/20 white cotton and chocolate 5/2 perle cotton and a section with 2/14 Alpaca/Silk.
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I’m planning on warping this gamp with 8/2 cotton but would like to try using 8/2 wool for the weft for a section of the 8 yards I’ll be putting on. I read the following on the helpline…”You can use cotton and wool together with no problems if you alternate them end on end or pick and pick. You can also make one your warp and one your weft. When you combine them this way they move together as they full. Coverlets were often done this way. Cotton was used for the warp and tabby weft and wool was the pattern weft. The alternating business keeps eveything moving together.”
My question is, Would I still use a sett of 18 or do I need to open up the sett more so that the wool will bloom? And if so, what sett should I try?
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You aren’t going to like this, tbrickerbrac but I’m going to throw the word “sample” at you 😉 Your sett would depend on the actual wool yarn you are using and how it’s spun. Have you done a ruler wrap with the yarns you plan to use? That, however, won’t totally give you your answer because you want the weft to really open up in fulling.
Some 8/2 wool is very tightly spun and is used for the hard wear of upholstery or even used in tapestry to hold it’s shape in the design. If you did a sample at the 18 epi of the gamp making sure that your pics are squared, you could full it the way Jane’s suggests in the item on the Helpline to see if that’s what you want. If not, open it up to see if it needs more room to full the way you want it to. You aren’t going to really know unless actually try. I love the idea and look forward to you sharing your experiments with this idea.
Anyone else tried cotton and wool???
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I just finished a throw with 8/4 cotton rug warp and Shetland wool weft. I was’t sure it would work so I did weave a test area befor I decided. I wet finished and twisted fring this morning. It has amazing drape. It is what I call Gamp Gone Wrong. I got so very confused with winding multiple strands on the warping board. So long story short it was all wrong. However, I could t waste the 8 yard warp and decided to experiment with different weaving. I’ll try to send a pic. I. Very happy to know the wool and cotton play well together.
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Here are a couple of pics. The red one is with wool weft. The wine color is 8/4 Rug warp and same colors as warp. I haven’t wet finished the cotton. I still have 2 plus yards on loom to weave. And I’m embarrassed 😩 to say that I have that much left and ready to warp in lighter colors. As I said earlier I was very confused . But it was certainly a learning process.
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I understand what you are thinking of doing for your “barber pole” section of your fringe but I wonder how stable it would be. That often happens with fringes, depending on your warp threading, I wouldn’t worry about it. No one is going to look at it and say what a horrible blanket – will you just look at that “hideous” fringe section. That privilege is left to us – the weaver! Soon, you will find that you will see the whole blanket and not even see the wee part that is irritating you now. It’s beautiful – kudos to you!
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Hi there,
i have just finished the colour and weave gamp and very excited to discover all those patterns ! I mostly weave using 2/30 silk and so I did the gamp with a 30 epi sett. Having been inspired by Jane’s advice on loosening up I’m going to resley the warp and weave at 24 epi. That’s what my pick rate was on the 30 epi setting. Should make a big difference to the drape and be balanced hopefully 🤞Apologies for rather poor photo 😩
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I increased the width of the warp by adding two additional D/L sequences and wound a 7 1/2 yard warp. I wove a tea-towel sized gamp that I cut off to use as a guide for the patterns I wanted to use for the remaining warp. I then wove five more tea towels, each different from the other. I stayed with the same colours after trialing some others that I didn’t think looked as good as the originals. Perhaps if I had had them in the warp they would have looked better. I did find the selvages a bit of a challenge.0 -
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Oh my gosh, these are all so wonderful! I wound up having hand surgery several weeks ago and am now woefully behind. I’m finally warping up the loom for the color and weave gamp. I hope I’m able to catch up! meanwhile, I’ve been watching and reading.
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I used this gamp mostly as an exploration of different wefts but had some fun with treadling, too.
After weaving the original draft, I did a stripe sample (my favourite, I think) and then re-did the gamp and treadled twill. My big lesson here was that no matter how obvious I might think the break between the two samples is always put in a shot of contrasting weft – the first twill sample ended up as the hem on my striped one. Oops.
It was fun to see the subtle differences in pattern with the two treadlings, but what was most interesting for me was the difference in drape. Same sett, same threading, same weft, totally different fabric.
I tried a bunch of different wefts from my stash but nothing really grabbed my imagination so I re-sleyed this warp to 12 epi and started to play again. I had some grey mercerized knitting cotton from the thrift store that turned out to be exactly the same size as 4/8 cotton. It made a very nice fabric that I think would be suitable for something like a baby blanket. Next sample was with a vintage bobbin of Quebecois and a bit of Harrisville for a very serviceable lap blanket. Without Jane’s encouragement to be brave, I never would have thought to try a wool weft on a cotton warp but it totally worked. The cotton fringe looked a little sad so I augmented it with a strand of wool and it looked much better.
Finally, I cut off all but the three centre stripes and wove with 2/8 cotton weft for a lightweight scarf. I loved this fabric, and wished that I could have made the scarf longer but alas, that was the end of the warp.
I’m ready for some springtime colours, and am really (really) hoping there won’t be snow under the clothesline for the next sample!
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Thanks, Sandra. I promised myself that I would treat the Guild episodes as homework assignments and I am having so much fun using “homework” to avoid “housework”!
As I consider all of the possibilities from a single warp I am having flashes of the von Trapp family in the Sound of Music where all of the children were wearing outfits made from curtains. Rather than curtains, everything I make comes from one very long warp and I end up making a top that matches the blanket and rug and bath towel and tea towel and placemats and scarf and curtains….☺
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Thanks, Moira. I like the stripes, too.
I would like to try this gamp in an analogous colourway. I’m not so keen on the high contrast patterns needed to illustrate the colour and weave effects, but two shades of green or a blue and a green or maybe some browns or.. or.. or… would give a real interest and depth of colour to a fabric. But now we are on to the next sample and once again my head is almost exploding after watching what Jane does with “Parrot”! Too many ideas, not enough time!
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My hand is nearly completely healed from surgery and I was finally able to finish my project. I really enjoyed this gamp! I wove two towels after the gamp, one using a bright orange zinger and the other adding a pale blue in the weft. I laid this on my sofa, which is why it looks a bit bumpy/wavy. This is straight off the loom.
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Hand spun blankie in 3 panels —color weave, assymetry and division of space. I think I’ll full it a bit more
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Hi Ellen,
Seams were a challenge because the wool was hand spun singles and they fulled differently. I used a needle threaded with the dark colored wool and caught a loop from each selvedge. Does that make sense? I butted them together and then just went alternating rows from one to the other. I wasn’t as tedious as it sounds. Turned out pretty well and with some additional fulling and a bit of brushing it will be fine. Very soft.
Mary
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the joining sounds great ! I’m a hand spinner as well, and hope to use the yarns in weaving blankets. Would like to weave 3 blankets one each for my kids. Got a wonderful book recommended by L. Waddington. The author is Jean Wilson. “Joinings, Edges, and Trims” So many options.
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After a few miss steps I finally got my warp on and have started weaving. However when I measured the width in the reed it was only 18.5 in ches instead of 19.25. This is before weaving so no draw in yet. I have checked number of threads and they are correct. It took a couple of attempts to get the 1,2,1 threading accurate and I think I’m pretty close. It is a metric reed so that could be it. Just curious as Jane uses a louet spring with I’m assuming metric reeds. Very excited to see the patterns as they unfold. Been hampered with knee injury so very frustrated and trying to catch up
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Thanks! I actually had a lot more fun on this warp than I thought I would. I need to order the next 2 kits but am going to order some extra colors as it seems like that is what is the most fun for me.
This was my first warp on my new to me Ideal which I am finding to be possibly my favorite loom, although there are things I love on ,y Standard as well.
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I wove a conventional sample at a sett of 18 and then opened it up to 15. The shawl has 5/2 bamboo as weft and the towel used leftover bobbins of 8/2. Love the patterning!
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I finally finished with this warp. I wove my original sample by weaving the warp sequence twice. This will be a table runner. Next I rethreaded to 15 epi and wove dish towels with boucle. I love the boucle towels. So far I just like to look at them. Not sure when I will let anyone use them…..1 -
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Here’s a scarf I wove using the color and weave Gamp using black and grey Zephyr for both warp and weft. I used 3 blocks that I liked from the gamp and used both grey and black to weave blocks at one end of the scarf and then wove the rest with just the black
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Another set of towels from leftover warp. This is the last of my warp. I’ll not bore you with details as to why I had this warp. Mainly because I can’t remember what exactly I did wrong in the first place but I did make use of the leftover. I also wove a summer throw not pictured. As you can see there is a pile of color catchers (25 to be exact) I washed the towels 3 times and did get lots of red out but am disappointed in the bleeding. I did not use Jane’s yarn but from another company, which may be my last. It was still fun weaving. It’s a horrible photo but some were woven with a boucle type yarn, which I loved. Betty
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This gamp was fascinating to weave, seeing what delicate patterns were going to emerge and how they changed their look with a change of colour. I wove the first 3 gamps at 18 then took the warp down to 12. I used a fine ish dark blue flecked wool with a lighter blue boucle. I was really pleased with the finished article ( table runner). Finally chose a small patterned square at 16 which will form part of a banner to advertise our weaving group’s new name when we have our local exhibition next month.
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After finishing my Colour and weave gamp I tried one in twill, not exact in the same way but also with a different amount of dark and light threads, blending from one colour to the other (orange red to orange, yellow, light green to darkgreen) The first towel followed in the weft colours the wrap. In the other four towels I played with stripes 
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I absolutely loved weaving this. It was amazing to see the patterns emerge.
Since my loom was already set up for twill, I did the entire gamp in it for the second half. The patterns were interesting but didn’t wow me as much as the plain weave.
It was great to see the plain weave patterns emerge. I can’t wait to apply some of these to other projects!
I went with the suggested navy and white for the sample itself, but changed to a dark purple weft for the rest of the warp. I wanted to make a shawl/scarf.
For some of the solid areas I used a light purple in place of white the effect is subtle. It’s interesting but my husband insists it looks very blue to him while I see the purple more
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Good on you Kelly for trying it in twill as well! This gives you a whole new take on the possibilities. The plain weave is something else, it just amazed me when I wove it what you can do with just the colour effects. I often refer to this gamp when I’m designing towels in plain weave and love it.
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Here’s a poncho I wove from my hand spun alpaca for our annual Weaver’s Challenge. The Gamp from Episode 4 came to the rescue for designing my piece. Thanks , JST.
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Those turned out wonderful ! Each lesson is so much fun, but this one was magical. I enjoyed watching the patterns happen
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I’m in the planning stages for the Color and Weave Gamp and my main choice is between my 2 looms. I have a 32″ Ashford Rigid Heddle, which would work for width, but the highest number of dents per inch I can get is 15. My other option is to use my 15.75″ weaving width LeClerc Dorothy Table Loom on which I would have to do a double width cloth. I do have a 12 dent reed for the Dorothy.
I would like to hear some input on which loom you would choose to use. Each poses problems. I’m concerned the 15 dent reed will be too loose a weave with 8/2 cotton, which is the thread I have for the project. Double width cloth poses problems with accurate threading.
Help Please!
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Hi Carol, I just responded to your post in Ravelry a little while ago but I’ll post it here too.
After weaving the gamp per Jane’s guidelines (18 epi) I opened my sett to 15 epi to use a boucle yarn. While playing on the loom I decided to try 8/2 cotton again in the weft and beat at 15 ppi. The cloth came out very nice. It would be great for clothing (nice drape) but for this project it became a tea towel and it was perfectly fine. Finished width after washing was 19-1/2”.
I don’t know if this will help (not a very good one), but here’s a picture of the 15epi x 15ppi. I did an all red one this way too:
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Kathy I was just on Ravelry looking at your projects; they were great! I do appreciate knowing just what 15 epi would be like to weave and wash. I was concerned it would be too loose, but it looks lovely in your photo! I’ll put some warp on both looms and see what happens. Thanks Again!
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Looks like I’m going to weave this one on my rigid heddle loom. I’ve discovered I can use my double heddle setup to achieve a higher thread count. SO. . . I can warp 18 epi with 2 of my 10 dent heddles. Found the answers in some older books I forgot I had. Will be a new adventure for me. But I’m pleased I’ll be able to see the individual gamp squares blooming before my eyes!
I also seem to be making a dog’s breakfast of the threading for double width weaving in my WeaveIt Pro, so I probably will not use my smaller 4 shaft table loom. Though I’ll keep trying! I’m a very ‘stick to it’ kinda gal.
A big Thank You to everyone who helped me, I really appreciate it!
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A couple results from the colour and weave warp. One sample experimenting with designs and/or slub yarns and one woven with boucle at 12 epi.
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I just finished with sample #1 and I’m ready to start this sample. But I don’t have a dozen cones in each color. Did everyone buy more yarn or is there another trick to this I’m not catching? Or did everyone warp one thread at a time?
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I’m about to create the warp for Sample #2, and I want to increase the width in the reed to somewhere close to 24” for larger tea towels. Can anyone recommend options? Either increase the width of each section, or repeat some of the sections? At 18 epi I would need 432 ends for 24”. Any suggestions are welcome 🙂 Thanks!
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Thoughts about the Color and Weave gamp, sample 2: I was happy to find the threads did not twist very much, when weaving off.
I took a wrong track on the warping board while holding 5 ends, and didn’t notice until the last section was warped. I remembered a Charlotte story from an upcoming episode. So I carefully unwound onto another spool, found that the path in error was too long, so was able to fix it, then carefully rewarp the rest and didn’t have to waste much.
When I opened up to 12 epi, I wove with wool. Didn’t pay attention and tossed it in the washer with the rest of the project. Predictably, it went from a balanced weave at 29”, to 20”. So I cut armholes into it and made it into a vest/wrap for the toddler granddaughter.
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Hi – I am wondering why my Gamp looks so different from Janes example. I really like hers, the patterns are clean and crisp, but mine seem a lot more messy. See below, I have overlayed my weaving on top of a screenshot of her Gamp weaving video. I hope I have made it easy to see. Any ideas? I am using 8/2 Brassard cotton and have followed the directions exactly, made no changes. 18ppi and 18epi.
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Elisa, a wee question to start with – have you washed your gamp yet? Things settle in once it’s washed. Let us know and we can take it from there.
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Just to add to Sandra’s comment, I’m just focusing on a couple of the squares, your threading sequence, for DDDD/LLLL it looks like you threaded right to left LLLL/DDDD, the DDD/L is threaded L/DDD, the DD/LL is threaded LL/DD and such? If so, this will give it a different look to Jane’s. But it’s not wrong, just different, it’s kind of cool actually.
Your photo is super helpful and detailed to look at by the way, love how you did it 😉
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Hi Ginette – That was a super good idea. The threading you see at the top is Jane’s. Might her threading be reversed? It does actually look like it. My threading is the image at the bottom and if you compaire the DDDD,LLLL you can see hers starts with Light and mine starts with Dark. I checked mine to make sure, images of my threading are below.
I have moved on since and am weaving all white weft now, but just to show you this is the second threading of DD,LL. I think this is correct.
here is my DDDD,LLLL threading, this does look correct as well, Right?
Do you think I should try to reverse my threading?
THANK YOU!
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Hi Elysa,
The threading from the draft which is the same as Jane’s in the photo, would be threaded right to left so you would start threading with the LLLL from the DDDD/LLLL sequence. That said, I don’t think you should rethread right now, play with what you have. The only difference is that the edges of most of them are different from the draft, threads next to the dividers. If you look at the centre of some of the squares, they look the same. This sample gamp will be a great sample to look at in the future when you want to design a piece and choose one of the squares or a couple of them.
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OH MY GOODNESS!! I see what you mean and that makes sense now that you point it out. I was reading right to left (how we normally read). So this will be the same with warping too. Sheesh! DDDD/LLLL would be warped LLLL then DDDD. Ok. It is a bit of an Ah Ha moment. Now I really want to do it again and warp and thread the right way and see how that comes out! Thank you!
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Hi – I am wondering why my Gamp looks so different from Janes example. I really like hers, the patterns are clean and crisp, but mine seem a lot more messy. See below, I have overlayed my weaving on top of a screenshot of her Gamp weaving video. I hope I have made it easy to see. Any ideas? I am using 8/2 Brassard cotton and have followed the directions exactly, made no changes. 18ppi and 18epi.
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My daughter loved one of the squares in my Colour and Weave gamp (DDDD/LLLL on DD/LLL) so I designed this scarf around it (using Fibonacci, of course.) She helped choose the colors from my JST sample cards. Jagger Spun superfine merino 18/2 in Navy, Chamois and Pumpkin. It was my first time weaving with wool and I was a bit nervous to wet-finish it but it came out well, I think.
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Ok, I finally got started and done! 1st weaving project and Jane’s instructions were invaluable. I couldn’t leave well enough alone and decided to put in an extra threading; DD/L/D/LL. I really had fun, especially when it came time to play and come up with my own weft threading patterns, there are some cool patterns that I can’t wait to try out.
At the end (after two towels), I had a bit of Warp left so decided to try some clasped weft and also some Christmasy colored weft in the original TAW pattern. The cranberry and pine colors were 8/4 cotton.
Thanks, Jane! I learned so much! I can’t wait to try everything else. And one last thing, you have incited lust in me… I now want a Louët Spring II… someday.
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Ok, I finally got started and done! 1st weaving project and Jane’s instructions were invaluable. I couldn’t leave well enough alone and decided to put in an extra threading; DD/L/D/LL. I really had fun, especially when it came time to play and come up with my own weft threading patterns, there are some cool patterns that I can’t wait to try out.
At the end (after two towels), I had a bit of Warp left so decided to try some clasped weft and also some Christmasy colored weft in the original TAW pattern. The cranberry and pine colors were 8/4 cotton.
Thanks, Jane! I learned so much! I can’t wait to try everything else. And one last thing, you have incited lust in me… I now want a Louët Spring II… someday.
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This is what Jane wrote responding to a question about DDDD/LLLL in the comments section under the video:
“What you do want is 4 dark/ 4 light threaded in the heddles. There are 3 ways this can be achieved. Lets look at the options.
1. You could hold one end in your hand and wind on 4 dark, then break it and tie on the light and warp 4 more threads and go through that all the way across the section. It will take the longest time.
2. You could hold 2 dark in your hand and go up and down and you would have 4 dark, then break it and tie on the 2 light and go up and down. It would be faster than #1 but would still be a lot of starting and stopping, breaking and tying.
As I said in the video that is how I did it forever before Charlotte figured out an easier way. The pattern was written before we filmed this part.
#3 is what I describe in the video. This is the fastest and easiest way to do it..GO back and watch it again and I’m sure it will make sense.
One last thing that maybe you don’t understand….
If you don’t put the first two on by themselves you won’t have 4 of one colour. If you just start with 2 light and 2 dark in your hand, you won’t have 4 of one colour for your first stripe.
I don’t think I can explain it any better than that. You need to try it for yourself and you can do it however you want. 🙂0 -
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Help needed please:
I began preparing my warp for episode 4, and suddenly had a thought: if, for example in the first section, the directions say to warp 48 ends D/L, does this mean wrap both of those 2 colours together 48 times around my warping mill (equaling 96 ends), or does it mean warp the 2 together 24 times, which would equal 48 ends???? I think the second but need reassurance before I continue.
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Hi Judy, Jane lays it all out for us on the draft download with the Colour and Gamp sample Episode. If you look at the front page you’ll see that the total number of threads needed for the warp is 348 and page 2 shows us how many threads are in each section. So – you can see there that the total number of threads is 48 in the first section, 1 each D/L wound 24 times and then 4 ends of apricot. Relax, follow Jane’s directions and you will have a happy warp!
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This color and weave gamp made me so happy because it is the most complicated weaving I’ve done so far and it came out so pretty! I made this pillow and a set of four towels.
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