The Big j.c.

Today I begin to weave.... today I begin to get nervous... The big j.c. looms ahead (no pun intended). I have two looms out today. I am using a Rigid Heddle loom for the lower portion of the body and I am using an eight harness table loom for the arms/shoulders. I had to go to FSJ on Monday to pick up Gertrude.... Gertrude is the eight harness loom. You see I name my looms.

The eight harness loom that I just picked up is Gertrude. My big Rigid Heddle loom is Gerty and my small Rigid Heddle loom is called Trudy. I have a number of pin looms too and I have named them as well. There's big Mert, which is a 7' tri loom, Merty the 3' tri loom, (he's a boy) and the babies Insy, Winsy, Tinsy, all Hazel Rose Looms in various shapes and sizes, and lastly there are my two Weavettes, Mini and Maxi. I have also named my spinning wheels... I have several. My Little Gem is called... what else.... Gem and sometimes Gemma. My old saxony style wheel is called Gene (after my Grandmother whose name was Genevra and a very old fashioned name it is like the wheel). And then my black wheel is called Aunt Jemima even though she is funky with poetry painted on her and lady bugs glued to her. Then last year I bought a Charkha which I promptly named Ghandi.

Anyway, I am using Gertrude and Trudy for the big j.c. Yesterday was a day of interruptions so I am not as far along with the big j.c. as I had hoped but today is "the day" ! Da, da, da, da! So a day of work ahead...

I want to write more but really I shouldn't spare time... so seeing how I do today, then maybe I can post some pics tomorrow.

I'm off to ply some weft and then weave, weave, weave.....