Habu NS-2B looks like screen on the loom

As you may know, I have a minor obsession with all yarns Habu. I picked up some of their NS-2B wool crepe at Convergence two summers ago, and have only just managed to weave with it.  
 
Well, I ignored their warping advice and warped a full 26" of my Baby Wolf with a four yard warp, front to back. I alternated threading an inch each of 30 ends per inch and 15 ends per inch across the entire warp, but since I wanted to both start and end with an inch of 30 epi, I sett the center two inches at 30 epi. So 30-15-30-15....30-30-15-30-15.......30. I used a total of 590 ends, 15 of which broke over the course of the weaving. On a percentage basis, not bad. I didn't bother fixing these broken threads as the yarn is a high twist yarn, and the end result was meant to be a bubbly, bumpy, crepe-y type thing, and I figured I would be the only one who would ever notice the errors. Way less stressful. Now trying to pick off the cat hair is another problem. Gray yarn, gray cat, you'd think it wouldn't show. Wrong-o.
 

Cut warp ends tied on in overhand knots

Jane Patrick's spaced out fulled scarf was popular enough to be featured in a gallery in Spin-Off at some stage within the past year, and while I contributed a scarf to the gallery, I was never happy with it. So I decided that it was high time I wove one up that would actually get worn. Most importantly I wanted it to be long and wide enough to actually offer some protection against the elements. I'm a double wrapper. If a scarf isn't long enough to wrap around my neck twice, it generally collects dust.
 

Almost 37 weeks!

It's a big day for me. After two months and four days, I am finally on my last day of bed rest. If you are in the north shore area of Boston and see a cloud of dust puffing up into the sky this weekend, that's just me dealing with the weed problem in our yard that seems to be growing as quickly as this little baby I'm carrying. I think I should be grateful that there hasn't been more rain as the problem would otherwise require some sort of machete to get the job done. 
 
It was an emotionally up and down journey for me, but I did manage to get a bit of weaving accomplished on my mini loom. You can see the results with free project details here. In addition to weeding, I will be warping my Baby Wolf loom for the next project, which may involve five minutes of warping and ten minutes of resting. I'm so excited to get working again!

Heavy contrasting yarn used to mark separation in curtain panels

I have two words that describe my life these days: bed rest. Bummer. I figured I'd l start to slow down a bit during my third trimester, but this is a bit slower than I anticipated. The good news: other than having to be horizontal all day every day, the baby and I are both healthy as horses.
 
The other good news is that my latest free project for Schacht Spindle Company is now available by clicking here. My grand plans to weave curtains for every window in the house are on hold for the time being, but I'm happy to have finished this pair for the bathroom. Now we just need to get the trim up so that we can put up a curtain rod.
 
Since I'm not allowed to sit upright at any of my regular looms, I have been weaving on a mini loom. I'm working on a little project for the kiddo using some Southdown that the very generous and lovely Margaret Russell sent along to me. I have also been working on a bit of knitting. And while I find it far less enjoyable than weaving, it does help pass the time. Speaking of time, it's time to get back to my mini loom.