What's on the Loom?

I'll admit, I haven't had too much time to be working on any weaving projects, but I do have both looms warped with projects on them.  

One of the yarns that I was introduced to at the Weavers School was the cotton from Lunatic Fringe.  While I was at the school, I came home with one of their towel kits.  I did manage to eek out a little bit of time to get one of these kits on the Megado.  As I'm still getting used to the loom and the weaving software program for the dobby, I thought I would start with something a little more mindless to start.  

On the warping board.  Fun, bright colors!

The Louet Megado has a built in raddle.  Very convenient and I like the fact that I can stand with good posture while I'm spreading the warp ends in the raddle.  

Here are all my warp ends spread out in the raddle with the lease sticks still holding the cross.  Now it's time to thread the heddles.  

The Megado has texsolve heddles.  For a loom that has 16 shafts, these lighter heddles will be great!

The next step is sleying the reed.  

Here's a back shot of the loom after everything has been done and my warping is finished!  

And we're off and weaving!  I will get 4 towels from this warping.  I've been playing around with different shuttles - finally ended up using an end-feed shuttle (not shown in this photo) for these towels.  

Officially Closing Shop!

It happened!  The closing sale for the business started on April 4th.  I can truthfully say that I am so relieved.....now the only worry is that I'll be able to sell off the majority of my inventory.  Let's face it, I have enough knitting yarn to last a lifetime, and as I'm gravitating more and more towards weaving, I probably won't be knitting as much as I used to.  So many customers have asked whether I saved yarn for myself before the sale started.  Believe it or not, I didn't set anything aside.

I've had so many well wishes and great comments from customers, both old and new, and that has been rewarding.