The End

 The Big Wrap:

 I love looking at the whole thing together since it was such a mystery while weaving!

 The center fold isn't as invisible as I was expecting, but it's also not too bad!  (It's in the middle of that pink stripe.)

I serged the edges at each end so that they don't fray.

This is how I took care of the corners.

 

 Ready to Send!  

The End!

And now we see the other side!

Just a little tiny bit of sewing remains and packaging!!!


Here is the center fold before washing.  I have all the faith in the world that it will disappear almost completely!

The post in which I am finally done weaving this wrap!

This is the finale!  I didn't weave all the way up to the end pieces like usual because warp threads tend to stick and the weft doesn't even look good anyway after that point!  It feels good to finally be cutting this thing off the loom!

The paper fell off!!!!

My back paper roll finally fell off!

Now I'm thinking, "The end is closer than ever!"

So close!!!

No matter how much I weave, this wrap never seems to end!!

I can't wait to hear that paper roll fall off the back end... soon... very, very soon!

Far away, up close

Timbuktu

I might be half way...

But I've kind of lost track!  I'm kind of at that point in-between no-where and somewhere!  Don't they call it Timbuktu? 

The other side of this moon

This wrap is like the other side of the moon... you can only see one side at a time. However, we get a glimpse in this folded up loom picture.

You can see both sides of the wrap!!!!!

Be creative and piece it together in your head!

I think I'm about 1/3 of the way done, too!!!  Yay!!!  It's weaving up quickly!!! 

Pink, then gray

I love the color changes!

This has taken months to plan and put together, but I already feel like I'm reaping the rewards!  It was worth the wait...

I love it!  I can't wait to see it all done and see how everything works together, especially when I pull it off the loom and get to see both layers side by side! 

It's beautiful... it's exciting... it's unique!

Finally some weaving to share!!!

 We are finally weaving on this one!!

 

Of course, because it's doubleweave, all you can see is one half.  The other half is folded underneath this layer.  But it's pretty much the same thing!

I can't wait to see what some changes in weft colors will look like!

PS.  Did I mention that I only had ONE threading error to fix?  And I think that happened when I was winding the warp onto the loom.  I had a thread break and I think it got pulled into a different heddle because the one heddle it needed to go back into was completely empty and bent.  ONE error... I think this is a new record for me!!

All wound up!

All wound up, tied on, and ready to weave!!

Oh wait... I have to wind some shuttles first...

All threaded! Ready to wind it up!

 Finally!!!

 

 All heddles are threaded!  I just need to tie-up in back and wind it on.  Then I can tie-up the front and wind some shuttles.  Soon... maybe real soon... I can finally weave on this wrap!!!

 

I imagine that I'm almost 50% of the way done already, and I haven't even started weaving it!  The setting up process is so much work and the weaving always goes so fast.

But look at it this way, at least the colors are really pretty to work with!

Half way done with threading!

This is such a huge project!!!  I think I realized it before I started, but it didn't quite sink in HOW huge!  It's also weighing down on me right now that it's for someone else so my expectations and standards are much, much higher than I would set my own.  Oye!!

I will be SOOO glad when this is over!  It's been on my mind since July when we were first planning it.  But because of yarn delays and pregnancy stuff, it's just taking FOREVER to get this one done!!!

But we are halfway done with threading... half way!!  I can do this!  Soon I'll be winding it all on and the actual weaving part will probably go super fast, as usual.  I can do this!

4-shaft doubleweave on 8-shaft loom

Partly because I sold my 4-shaft loom and partly because I don't want to have to redo all my heddles on my 8-shaft loom, I have decided to take the 4-shaft doubleweave pattern and put it onto all 8-shafts of my loom.  Basically I am thinking of shafts 1-4 as 1-4 and then 5-8 as 1-4 again.

Here is a redo of my pattern and proof:

Doubleweave on 4-shafts: straight threading & treadling

I have chosen to do doubleweave for this baby wrap, only because my loom isn't big enough.  I also wanted a straight threading for the layers, instead of having to guess and memorize which thread goes where, especially since the colors are constantly changing.  I also wanted a straight treadling, and since I couldn't find a pattern that matched both of these scenarios, I had to make one up.

The threads on shafts 1&3 are the top layer and the threads on shafts 2&4 are the bottom layer. 

Here are my diagrams:

As you can see with this straight draw, first weave shaft 1 threads, starting with the shuttle throw from left to right.

Then, pick up all the top layer threads (1&3) and half of the bottom layer (2).  That leaves shaft 4 laying down flat.  Throw the shuttle from right to left.

Now, continue holding shafts 1&3 up, and now switch it to shaft 4, throw the shuttle left to right.  

Lastly, drop all the shafts but 3, because we started by holding up shaft 1 and 3 is it's opposite.  Throw the shuttle from right to left.

After repeating this several times, the opening for the wrap will be on the left and the seam will be on the right.

In my head, it makes complete sense.  I hope it all works out ok!!

Off to thread my loom... 

I just need to remember that shafts 1&3 are one layer and shafts 2&4 are another layer!  Hope I don't switch any of the colors around!

Finally, I'm done measuring the wrap warp!!!

Remember this one?  Yeah...

2 layers... lots of colors... but I am ever so grateful to be done measuring out that 7 yard warp!  My arms always exhaust so quickly when measuring out a warp!!

2nd row started!

My biggest fear on this row was how to mingle the color changes like I've been doing.  Instead of fretting about it any longer, I just made the pink row bigger so the seam will go right down the center of the pink.  In a way, this is break a rule or guideline of doubleweave.  One of the guidelines is to make your seam at color changes.  But after a unanimous vote of me and my hubby, we decided that increasing the pink stripe would probably be the best, especially since I didn't want to have to deal with a mingle of the colors here.  Now onward we go!

One of the things I'm doing in this row is taping a piece of paper between the layers so that I can see where I've skipped in order to mix the colors together.  This will help me not skip any dents by accident! 

1st row complete!

1/3 of the way done!

Almost done with one layer!

Aren't these colors so tropical??
They're so exciting, especially with winter and gray days approaching.

Next I'll do a stripe of white and then finish off the edge with a stripe of yellow.  Then I can focus on the other layer.  The only thing that worries me is trying to get some of those mini stripes to mix right where the fold will be.... but don't worry, I come armed with a plan.  It's not that set it stone yet, so I might just be making it up on the spot.  But I think it will work!

Also, happy 700th post!!!!