North Fork Fiber Guild

With the loom assembled the next step was to tie it up and get it ready for warping. Margaret, Monica and Elena all helped me learn how to tie everything up and set it up for weaving. Here they are doing their spinning, naalbinding and knitting after we got the loom tied up.

We set it up for a balanced twill and tabby just to play with initially.

Here I am testing out the treadles to see if I can reach them all easily.

Loom Assembled & First Fleece Skirting

The big Glimakra loom got assembled in the shop on 4 August.

My friend Elena Dent came to visit and got roped in to not only helping assemble the loom but also to help start the skirting of our 2008 fleeces. Normally we are done by now but with the construction I didn't get started until now.

New Loom

Erika came up from Albuquerque to teach a naalbinding class to members of the North Fork Fiber Guild (NF²G) and brought my new loom up from Santa Fe.

As she said, "All those years playing Tetris have finally paid off." She managed to get a Glimakra 4 shaft 60 inch wide countermarche loom into her van for the trip and still had room to spare.

This loom won't fit into any room in the house but will be installed in the upstairs of the new shop when its finally finished. I'm hoping to be able to weave unbalanced twill fabric on it eventually.