Ahhhh - Finally Time to Relax

The best thing about a high kitchen counter is not for cooking UGH,
but for measuring the yarn for a handwaving project!!!

This project is quite complicated as it needs groups of
natural colored fine cotton and also colored cotton threads.  

Total width of the warp (threads placed on the loom)
 for our patio pillows project, calls for a total of 620 threads,
 each 2 1/2 yards long.  Using a warping board makes it easy
to keep track of the color order and the length of each thread.

Don's way of relaxing was to take the new Honda CR-V
on another test drive.   He drove and I took pictures
as we visited Florence AZ, about 30 miles away.

Florence is the county seat of Pinal County (in which we now live), and is one
of the oldest towns in the county. It  is a National Historic District
with over 25 buildings listed on the Nat'l Register of Historic Places.

And in addition to many colorfully remodeled houses,  it is home to
the Florence Military Reservation,  an Army National Guard Training site
which is part of the Department of Emergency & Military Affairs.

The AZ Dept of Corrections also manages
several prison facilities in the area that can
only be seen from a birds eye view!!!

Back to my type of "incarceration".  This shows the warp
threads secured to the front of the loom (with flat sticks
and shoe laces) to keep things in place.

The fine cotton yarn is threaded thru the "reed" which keeps
the warp threads spaced evenly in the correct color order order,
if I do my job correctly!!!

Since my project calls for 30 "ends (threads) per inch",
I am using a 15 "dent" reed.  Dents refer to the # of spaces
per inch in the reed...
so I am carefully placing 2 threads thru each "dent"...
15 x 2 = 30!!!  See, that's not so confusing is it???
  After a little more therapy,  (that's weaving therapy),
I'll be back when it's time to start weaving.