Something Cheerful.
Well. I took a deep breath, and then I did the final calculations for the wonderful weaving project that ended up exploding... so now I have the numbers, and I can tell you: they are not pretty. Not pretty at all.
I'm normally not that far off with my work-time estimates, but there were a lot of unknowns in the project this time, and I did underestimate some of them. So it would have been a non-perfect estimate even without all the explodening - but well, that's how you learn. Or, as a friend of me likes to say: "Lernen durch Schmerzen, Wissen bildet Narbengewebe" (more or less literally: Pain makes you learn, knowledge forms scar tissue).
Which means... the next time around, I'll be smarter, and I'll do calculate things a bit differently. Next time around, we'll also have some more knowledge of how to approach a project like this, and know some more about the vagaries and ficklenesses of handspun yarn.
Anyway, I needed something to cheer me up after that, and what could be more cheerful than shiny gold and silk? So I sat down and did a bit of a test weave, and the result is this:
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Sorry that picture is not better - that gold stuff is really, really hard to photograph!
The band is about one centimetre wide, made from (chemically dyed) silk (the good old Gütermann two-ply) and gold thread. It looks fantastic, pictures don't do those gold things justice... and it did make this day much, much nicer.
I'm normally not that far off with my work-time estimates, but there were a lot of unknowns in the project this time, and I did underestimate some of them. So it would have been a non-perfect estimate even without all the explodening - but well, that's how you learn. Or, as a friend of me likes to say: "Lernen durch Schmerzen, Wissen bildet Narbengewebe" (more or less literally: Pain makes you learn, knowledge forms scar tissue).
Which means... the next time around, I'll be smarter, and I'll do calculate things a bit differently. Next time around, we'll also have some more knowledge of how to approach a project like this, and know some more about the vagaries and ficklenesses of handspun yarn.
Anyway, I needed something to cheer me up after that, and what could be more cheerful than shiny gold and silk? So I sat down and did a bit of a test weave, and the result is this:
[caption id="attachment_2963" align="alignnone" width="640"]
Sorry that picture is not better - that gold stuff is really, really hard to photograph!The band is about one centimetre wide, made from (chemically dyed) silk (the good old Gütermann two-ply) and gold thread. It looks fantastic, pictures don't do those gold things justice... and it did make this day much, much nicer.
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