More test weaves and a new blue tent is born

Weaver's log, Earthdate 26082019
Today I started on a Panama with some threads changed to blue so you can do blue squares. The hard part on it was nothing with the weaving but to get the blue threads in good tension. Then I was working with that The shed sticks slipped and I hade to untangle them. Fortunately, the sticks were tide so it could have been way worse.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 27082019
I got to warp for my towel weave and do the pre-sleying today, but I couldn't put it in a loom as we don't have one that is empty yet so that got to wait.

So it was to go back to Panama. I started on a new tent today and putting the green tuille tent on ice for a bit. I am doing this as the friend that was going to live with me on the Viking market on the 14-15/9 have decided she will just visit over one of the days. So I Don't need a big tent with lots of room and I am crossed about the outcome of the dorr part last Sunday. This tent is called a Geteld and is an early medieval tent from England but is mostly used as a variant for Vikings as there are depictions of them from at least the 900eds. I am following a guide on Ydalir Vikings home page as I find it very straight forward. 

Weaver's log, Earthdate 28082019
I finished Panama today.

Then didn't have anything to do really and then I heard that the sowing class was going to harvest the flax I sowed in may, so I asked if I could join them.

Then it was to go home and more tent work.
To do the lines on the diagonal I needed a long ruler so I took one of the offcuts we cut last Sunday and it works great.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 29082019
As I finished Panama yesterday I got a new weave to do today, what I got was a huckaback, I have never woven with so thin threads before, I am so happy it's cotton so they don't break that easy. 

Weaver's log, Earthdate 30082019
Then I got the stick that connects the warp to the fabric beam over the front edge of the loom I noticed I put the middle rope a bit crocked so I thought like so many men before, this is a quick fix.. spoiler it took all day. So many things went wrong I don't know where to begin so just look at the pictures of my hodgepodge solutions and improvisations.

Last a picture of the finished weave. The lines look weird as the tension string pull the weave, but it should straighten out then it's out of the loom.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 3108201
I have now cut out most pieces of the tent. I started with the ''butterfly'' pieces and the strip I have added in the middle to widen the tent. To be sure to get it centred I started in the middle and went from the middle to the bottom edge and then from the middle and to the other bottom then I sewed.