Thoughts on 2.5.2 – Parrot at the loom

[Ginette]

Let us know your thoughts on 2.5.2 – Parrot at the loom.

[judy]

I just delightedly opened Episode Five, but the video dives right in to the actual weaving of the parrot piece. Are there handouts with this lesson? If so, where would I find them– they’re not there when I click on the eye icon. I’m sure there’s a simple solution and I’m anxious to begin work on this episode as it uses delicious spring colours!

[Ginette]

Hi Judy, the episode below this one has Jane at the table where she goes through all the wonderful bits, info & samples for this lesson. The Parrot draft PDF handout will be posted in the morning which is when the episode is officially released 🙂 lucky you for coming upon it posted a day early! Enjoy watching this lesson!
Ginette

[Patricia]

Love the episode, so much more food for thought.
Love your passion Jane, it is infectious!
Patricia

[tbrickerbrac]

I don’t see any PDF for the 2.5.1 and 2.5.2
I have time this morning a would love to start winding the warp 🙂

[Sandra]

It’s just after 8:00 am on the west coast – the PDF will be added as soon as the studio opens this morning! You will have seen the amazing work that has been going on in the background to make these episodes available with Closed Caption. The focus was in a new direction getting that ready for some of our members who needed this on Jane’s videos. As Jane would say – “soon, soon” you’ll be winding your warp!

[Gabriele]

At minute 23.32 Jane shows the pdf and it is possible to get the amounts of the threadnumbers (-: Hint for early warpers (-:

[egaverette]

What loom are you using?

[Ginette]

Jane is using the David loom.

[mbartlo]

I love hearing the rhythm of your beat, Jane. I think the sound alone has made mine more even. This color scheme is way outside my comfort range and I have been itching to get to it. Thanks for all the challenges. Your directions are so complete and samples so abundant that I feel well prepared as I deal with the warp kits. This online guild has provided me with many happy hours at the loom this long Montana winter.

[Deborah]

You mentioned something at the very end about using an 8 harness loom for clasped wefts. I’d love to know more about getting the power from my other harnesses – as we go along. Another great episode! Thanks for the terrific instruction and inspiration.

[juneh585]

Loved this video! I have been racking my brain as to how to do a project. I want to make some wrist bands with letters incorporated in them. Could I do this with the second example? (The India example?) Or is there a better way. I tried to create a pattern in a weave design program, but it looked like it would require 16 shafts to accomplish my goal and alas I only have 8.

[Ginette]

Hi June, you can certainly try this technique to create the letters. It’ll take some extra time but it would be fun to try it.
Ginette

[juneh585]

I will try it and see if I can figure it out. I will let you know.

[Jacqueline]

Brilliant video once again. Love the clasp weft ideas, my mind is buzzing with all the ideas, just need to buy some more yarn!

[hicks9729]

I must be missing something. I’m looking for the PDF file as well. Can you please direct me? BTW as a hearing challenged weaver, I am anxiously looking forward to episodes with closed captioning. 🙂 Thanks for inspiration and instruction.

[Ginette]

Hi hicks9729,
The PDF icon is at the top left corner of the screen on this lesson, just on the JST logo. You should see an ‘eye’ and below the eye is the ‘paper’ icon for the PDF. You can also find all the PDFs on the Episodes page, right at the top under the links for the Indexes. We do have closed captioning for this episode and Episodes 6 & 7 as well. We’ve just started doing this and we hope it will be helpful! When you’re watching the lesson, on the bottom right corner of the video there’s the CC symbol. Click on it and choose ‘English CC’ and closed caption will appear for you.
Ginette
ETA, I’ve just added the PDF to Parrot at the Table as well to make it easier to find

[Tommie]

I thought when I subscribed to seasons 1 and 2 I could come back any time I view those videos. Is that not the case?

[Ginette]

Hi Tommie, Absolutely! You can view each video as many times as you want during your membership. Are you having problems viewing any videos?

[Judith]

I am curious about how Jane adds new threads. I was taught when I began, to simply overlap from one to the next. So, if changing from the navy zinger to the next color, for example, I was taught to put in about 1.5 inch of the navy, then bring in the new color and allow the two colors to overlap by maybe 3/4 inch. Yes, you have a double line of the navy, but you have that in Jane’s method as well only with much less snipping of the broken off threads on the back side. Just wondering about Jane’s reasoning for her method as opposed to the overlap method. Thanks!

[Jane]

Hi Judith,
I do it many different ways throughout the episodes as we build up options and technique. Remember…there is not right way or wrong way….just different ways.
Try out everything you see and then decide what you like the best.

[Judith]

When doing clasped weft, is it crucial to make sure you are going in the same direction each time you wrap the threads? i.e. – if the first time I bring my thread through I capture the alternate thread by going over and then under the alternate thread – is it crucial that I always go over then under? Will it make a difference if sometimes I go over and under and sometimes I go under then over?

[Jane]

No, it won’t make a difference….but try it both ways to prove that to yourself 🙂

[Mary Pedro]

I love the colors in this, can’t wait to start my weaving on it. However, I just had to laugh as I watched “at the loom” on this session and saw that the David Loom has a sticker that reads Cassidy. Made me chuckle. I had earlier noticed the Louet Spring has a label after the word Spring that reads “forward”. Jane if you are responsible I love your sense of humor as well as your wondrous weaving talent and skill as a teacher. Thanks

• This reply was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by Mary Pedro.

[Jocelyn Turner]

I don’t have a castle over my shafts and so where would I put my shuttle when doing the Clasped Weft Weaving?
Renee’

[Sandra]

When I didn’t have a shelf – one would rest on my cloth while I used the other.  Did I understand your question correctly, Renee?

[Jocelyn Turner]

That is what I do now when using two yarns in the loom, so will try it when doing  the Clasped weft. Putting the shuttle higher just seems so much easier but not possible.

[Neva Thiessen]

I am so excited to get into the color mixing of this session and especially the clasp weft method using 2/16 cotton.  Since I am just beginning to build a stash, I don’t have a great deal of my own supply.  What colors of  2/16 (that you sell) would you suggest if I am using the peacock color sequence.  I do like purples and greens,

Thanks,

Neva

[Sandra]

Hi Neva – why don’t you look at the yarn kits for this and the upcoming seasons and choose some 16/2 cotton in colours you like.  Then …… when you do those samples, and want to weave clasped weft – you’ll have started to build up a selection in your stash!  Just one idea…… 😉

• This reply was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by Sandra.

[Elysa Dennett]

This was one of my favorite projects.  The parrot colors were not for me so I used different colors and these towels are so pretty… they are like stained glass windows.  I have them in my kitchen and enjoy them every time I see them. 🙂

For the warp, I used Apricot, Pale Limette, Limette, Emerald, Dusty Blue and Purple.  For the weft I used the same colors and played with others like Cayenne, Teal, Tumeric, Light Blue, Butter, Light Brown, etc.

I included a couple of towels below, they are much prettier in person, but I could not get the colors to be as vibrant in the photo.

The funny thing is the towels I had in a pile photographed much better. You can see the vibrancy a little better here… so gorgeous!

I can’t wait to do them again!

[Ginette]

beautiful Elysa! Love the colours you chose 🙂

[Martha Eskin]

Is it safe to assume Jane is also using 2/16 thread for the inlay technique?

[Sandra]

Yes it is, Martha – have fun!

[Jan]

To “open up” the original Parrot warp from 18 epi,  does Jane do a hem stitch, cut the warp to re-sley at either 12 or 16 epi (for the extra bit at the end of the warp), and tie up fresh to the front apron rod?  It seems obvious, but I may have missed this part.   I love these colors, and plan to weave something special at the end 🙂

 

[Sandra]

You are “right on the money”, Jan!  Have fun opening up the warp and discovering new possibilities 😄

[christin_ramey]

I’m having issues with skipped warp threads on this sample.  I haven’t had this issue before.  Is it a problem with the warp?  If I cut it off and retie it will that fix it?  Thanks,  Christine Ramey

[Corie E Greene]

I have had the same issue with a few skipped warp ends – same as Christine’s photo.  I am not sure what is causing this.  The shed appears fully open and my shuttle isn’t jumping threads….I wonder if you can help me understand why this happens.  Is a warp end twisted or crossed? or is one of the shafts not rising properly?  Many thanks for your help.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 8 months ago by Corie E Greene.

[Sandra]

It could be tension issues in your warp or the way you throw the shuttle on occasion. I still sometimes get skips after having woven for 20 years!  I watch for them and mend them either on the loom or when I’ve cut it off but before walking the fabric.

[Corie E Greene]

Oh good to know, thank you for sharing you still have them on occasion!  Being a newbie there are so many things to learn and think of – it can be exhausting..LOL! I will continue on working to improve my techniques so my weaving will flourish.  Thank you so much.  Happy New Year Sandra 🙂

[Trish]

I notice this project – and some others – mention “updated version” of the pdf but it doesn’t say updated on the copy.  Without printing out all the updated ones to compare, was there maybe a date when each season was updated?  I’ve been a member since 2020. thanks

 

[Pauline Sleigh]

Thanks Sandra for your response to Corie Greene. I am also having some skipped thread issues (on my inherited from a friend home made 4 shaft) I’m confident it’s the shafts catching and bad technique on my behalf. I unweave and fix when I see them in time but am interested in the idea of mending on loom. Has Jane done a mending video? Or do you use the “egads! I have a knot in my warp” technique?

• This reply was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by Pauline Sleigh.

[Sandra]

Here’s an article from the JST Knowledge Base that describes what Jane does, Pauline.  It’s easy if you catch your skip before you take your project off the loom!

[Elizabeth Solon]

Hi! Thanks for the info! I don’t have the sample for this because I didn’t want to spend so much money especially since I am new new weaver. I could do the pattern part though, here are some pictures:

these are the snakes I finished.

-Kai

[Sandra]

Your snakes are delightful, Kai!

[Elizabeth Solon]

Thanks! By the the way, I’m only 10 years old.

[Sandra]

Thank you for telling me that. My granddaughters wove at your age as well!

[Melissa Marvin]

My take on clasp weft using the Parrot warp. On the left is handpainted silk in Ariel’s Voice. On the right is my own hand spun alpaca/silk. I’m really liking how its coming out. 

[needle1]

Missed a division 3 threads(navy) in the middle of warp!! Any ideas how to add in! Total newbie. TIA

Elena

[Ginette]

Hi Elena,

If you wanted to add those 3 threads, Jane shows how to add a few threads when changing zingers threads. You’ll find it in Season 2, Episode 2.

-zinger, taking out your warp zinger & replacing it 2.2.3, 31:52

I’d use this technique for sure. Otherwise, you could just leave them out too!

Let us know how you make out or what you decide to do!

 

[needle1]

Thank you so much for the guidance. Will let you know how it worked! It needs those division threads in my opinion.

Elena

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