Things That Happened During Summer Break (part 4)

(continued from part 3)

The pieces to practise on? I have a narrow band that I already set up before the Forum; a wider band (or a very narrow strip of cloth, if you'd prefer); and another band (or two, actually) that I call "The Pharaoh".

These are all three quite different from each other, and I'm feeling a bit challenged with each of them, though The Pharaoh really wears the crown. It's a much simplified version of Tutankhamun's collar that Marie Ekstedt Bjersing researched and taught to us, done in a thicker yarn. Thicker, in this case, means a linen yarn in 60/2, which is still freaking thin.

Here's a picture of it:



You might notice that this lacks its heddles - that's because I had a heddling mistake in my setup, and decided that re-heddling would be a very smart thing to do. Then Marie told me that I might as well do a second warp, because it's quick and easy to do, and, well, so I did. That is why I now have two pharaohs.

This is the second one:

 
That does have all the heddles - I had to re-do the small bunch (for the special shed), but now it works quite fine. Apart from the two white warp threads that I still have no clue where they rightfully belong. They got missed, somehow, during heddling, in addition to two red-coloured warps. I figured out  where the latter really belong, though, and got that fixed by now.



The second pharaoh, by the way, even got to accompany me on our holidays as my crafty thing to do. Usually I take some knitting along, but the current project (dubbed the Neverending Ink) is way too heavy and voluminous at its current stage, and the bike will only accommodate something nice and small...