Last of the Blues

A couple of small blankets or knee rugs have emerged from pretty much the last of the thicker blue yarns I had accumulated. 

I am not greatly enamoured of the space dyed yarns used in the weft, especially the one that goes so dark in places it is almost black.  It gives dark horizontal lines that detract from the twill line.  In use they are not so noticeable. I suppose if I did my own dyeing I could avoid these problems.

Now I have worked off all the fluffy stuff I am ready for something finer.  This is no.50 Egyptian sewing cotton set at 40epi.

Threading the heddles was a bit of a mission but I used a straight draw on 8 shafts and tied each 8 ends together in a slip knot. That made it easy to sley it 4 ends per dent in a 10 dent reed.  It was only if the slip knot came undone I had do do some sorting out.  It was a dream to wind the warp with one reel of cotton and fit another one directly on to the shuttle to weave.  No knots, no joins, no breaks .  Why did I think it might be difficult?  it wove up really fast in plain weave.  What am I going to do with it?  Watch this space.