First week back at school with some tent stuff too

Weaver's log, Earthdate 19082019
The first day of the new school year of weaving, this time at Forsa Folkhogskola. I started the day with the tailoring class as I will spend the most time with them as the class I'm taking is to be taken as a home study with a monthly visit to school three days a month. But I do it at school and on 100% studying instead of its usual 50%. After the usual auditorium presentation and a closer presentation with the class. We got a task to decorate a dress together. As I know I wore to only stay with them until lunch I embodied this pink swirl as it didn't take to much time and life need more pink swirls.

After lunch, I met with my teacher and we discuss what would happen under the rest of the week and a little about the course itself. Then it was back home and sew the last long strip on but I didn't have time to fold the seam.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 20082019
I met one of my real classmates today, she is to weave at school too but only two to three days a week. We hade a third party member today as well a guy that will be with us on Tuesdays as he is studying Swedish the other days of the week. Today's work was to wind the yarn on pieces of paper and match colours for a kitchen towel. My thoughts on the different once from top left down: a traditional one, 70thes feel with the brown and orange. The two on the next row are just some in bright colours you know I love that if you remember my knitted hat I did a few years back. Then we have a flowery field in summer, think this one will do better as a carpet so might come back to this later in the year. Next to that, we stay on the flower theme with a sunflower, I like how the colour blending turned out on it. The black with a pink stripe is just that, black with a pink stripe minimalistic and simple but not something for this task. Finally, the one I chouse, it is a bit on the traditional side but still feels like it has kept up with the times.

Then we sat down and hade a small discussion about all of our samples my teacher rapidly took one of the browns I hade brought out and immediately I understood where she was going. With a thin outline of brown next to the orange, it gets a depth that was missing and here are the original and a new one I made with the brown.

It's subtle but something is happening. After school, I went back to the farm and fell the seam and folded the whole thing and rolled it up.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 21082019
Started the day writing the draft and learning how to calculate the scale of my paper template to full size. After some miss calculations due to forgotten parathesis marks on the paper, I hade counted how much warp I need of each colour and we didn't have enough blue so it had to be ordered. The rest of the day I spent weaving in test weaves from the towel summer class they hade this summer. The first one is a herringbone twill with a white warp and an inlay that is a 16/2 flax I belive with one black and one white strand in it. This inlay do so you only in certain angels see the herringbone pattern and like on the picture it's just black and white.

Then I was done with that I got to jump to another test weave. This time a huck, this is the first time I weave with partitions so I hade to concentrate. It went pretty well with only one mistake, as far as I know, will finish it tomorrow.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 22082019
Finished the huck and went on to the next loom.

This one has strips in plain weave and diamond twill. The biggest new things with this one are that it has a floating salvage, don't know if that is the English term for it but I'm sticking with it. What it means though is that the selvedge threads don't pass through any heddles. Then weaving you press the shuttle over them and on the other side it naturally passes under the selvedge threads on that side. You do this so that in weaves that don't always bind at the edges do so and you get nice edges the whole length of the weave.

This was a short day for me and after doing some school shopping and getting more thread for my sewing machine. I and mom raised the tent frame and I took one of the long pieces for the dorr side and held it to the frame. It didn't even unfold all the way so I decided I could cut some off and sew it on to the short piece for the door.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 23082019
continued with the one I started yesterday but sone my classmate came and waited for our teacher to get some help with what to do next, she is completely new to weaving so she doesn't know much about it yet. After the first coffee break of the day, we got the news that we hade to manage on our own today, so I decided to try and help her as good as I could without going into things too far. So we discussed her paper patterns a bit more and went over some working terms and names of loom parts followed by going over the paper with the order of our work ahead we gotten with steps to dress the loom and such. 

Weaver's log, Earthdate 24082019
today I cut off the part I measured that I didn't need on the long door part and added it to the short. Then I sew them together and put them on the frame, with some help holding the fabric I marked where to cut. With my big square edge, I filled the lines and made a parallel line about 3,5 cm for some extra. But didn't cut it as I didn't dare to do so.

Weaver's log, Earthdate 25082019
Disaster. I cut the angel today and it was crocked then I test fitted it, so it must have been crocked from then I drew it yesterday. But the show must go on and we took down the frame and made the big posts thinner with 5 cm and then I oiled everything with linseed oil.