I finally finished the shawl I started a while back on my giant huge 45" floor loom. It ended up being over 6ft long at least. I wove a twill variant pattern I found in my fibre focus magazine and used Bamboo yarn. It turned out fairly awesome for my first go. No disasters really, no tangled warp, no broken warp ends, etc. I'm proud especially of not tangling the confusing warp of many hundreds of ends and 3 different chains. The *ONLY* thing that went wrong-ish was when I washed/dried the piece to full it. The fringes got so so tangled. I spent about 2 hrs detangling by hand and then snipped off about an inch afterwards so it ended up ok. I don't have a fringe twister yet and didn't want to spend days doing it by hand, so instead I just hemstitched the ends on the loom and knotted each fringe bunch after i took it off. Next up is a rag rug!
here's the shawl after fulling it in the wash:
A while ago I made my 4th and final batch of jam for the season. I decided on apple pear and it turned out great despite a few substitutions I had to make. I ran out of sugar half way through making the recipe and put in about a cup and a half of agave syrup. I hope it keeps ok on the shelf. It tastes amazing and I'll make it again next year for sure.
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