A little hard to see I know, this is the guide string I measured and put on the warping wheel. This will be left on until all the warp is wound since I cannot do it all at once. Physically I am good for about 80 ends before I have to quilt. If I had a place to work inside I would probably do it in two sections and just leave everything set up, but I can't do that since I wouldn't want to leave it out unattended overnight. I can imagine several different outcomes, none of them good, so I am going to wind a lot of little ones and store them safely until it's time to dress the loom.

 One section of warp wound.

 This is called the cross, it is how a weaver keeps the threads in order, it's the most important part of a warp. This is the first time that I am only putting a cross at one end. I have always wound a cross at each end, but I have never had to use the second one so I left it off. I know a lot of weavers do, but I am a little nervous about it. Slow and steady and I should be all right. I have about 9 more sections to wind because I need close to a thousand ends at 24 ends per inch. I was going have David take some pictures of me chaining it off but her went inside. Then I discovered the battery was dead on the camera. Tomorrow I hope to have both David and batteries and get some pictures. I am storing the warp chains in a place safe from cats and kids, the two deadliest enemies of massive amounts of thread or yarn. It's lovely to be in the weaving process again. When the kids get the basement finished off I will have a weaving project going the year around. I am making some overshot table  runners to try to sell on Etsy, it's the only way I'll be able to afford more yarn to weave with.

Log Cabin Heart is coming along nicely, well over half quilted; the pattern is about half written and I am going to work on that this afternoon as well as my usual hand work.

David's echo cardiogram results came back. Nothing new, the same problems we knew he had already and they aren't going to change anything. He is trying to lose weight and get more exercise, but I don't know how long that will last; he doesn't have a lot of sticktoitivity, and needs cheering along more than most. Well, we all have our imperfections, and the good seems to outweigh the bad most of the time, so I'll not complain.

And I'll get to work, at least in a few minutes. My shoulders and upper arms get really tired manipulating the thread and the warping wheel and I need to give them a few minutes more rest before attempting anything.

Right now I have to help a little boy find his Gramps, he was wandering around down here asking for him.