You are a GENIUS!!!! This is wonderful info, I was just getting ready to wind towels with six colors and was dreading all those cuts and knots... and time. Thank you! I’m enjoying your overshot videos too, and your class starts tomorrow!!!

Very helpful, Janet. I have a horizontal reel, and will have to see what I can adapt!

Genius! Thank you so much. Color changes on a mill seemed such an annoyance before.

Oh, Janet! This is brilliant! Thank you very much! I love it!

Well that’s clever! Thanks!

Genius !!

Brilliant

very clever!

How might you do something similar using a horizontal mill rather than a vertical one?

@janetwdawson

3 жыл бұрын

That...is an excellent question! I've never tried and I haven't used my horizontal mill in yonks. Maybe a basket hanging from the ribs outside the area the warp is accumulating on?

Where do you get clamps with the rod to hold the cones?

@janetwdawson

2 жыл бұрын

The hardware store :) They go by different names; "bar clamp" is one of them.

What kind of clamp is that and where did you get it? I can't see it very well in the video.

How is the cup attached to the mill?

@janetwdawson

3 жыл бұрын

With a blob of that removable poster stickum goo.

How would you do this with really fine threads? I have better luck warping 2 threads at a time when I thread

@janetwdawson

3 жыл бұрын

I guess it depends on what you mean by "really fine threads". The smallest I use on a regular basis is 16/2 cotton (6720 YPP) and I use this same method. I'd probably do the same for even finer as well, but can't say from frequent personal experience how well it'd work.

@clearlysewcrazy2727

3 жыл бұрын

@@janetwdawson thank you for your quick reply. For some reason when I warp any thread finer than a 5/2 (to me 10/2 and smaller is a fine thread. 😂) using a single thread rather than held in pairs I get a tangled mess when I go to wind onto the back beam. I warp B2F. The threads seem to slide more smoothly in pairs. I was wondering if you had used your technique winding 2 at a time while changing colors on your mill. It could be my problem is my technique. I have messed up several warps when winding them using a single strand and now I avoid it as much as I can out of FEAR. Love your videos and I could use all the pointers I can get. I own your Craftsy class and have participated in several of your stash buster weave alongs. Thanks again, Pam

@janetwdawson

2 жыл бұрын

@@clearlysewcrazy2727 Yikes, I don't know how I didn't see this before! I usually wind in pairs, too - or threes, actually, if it's feasible. I do the same thing, but when I get to the ends I cut the whole bunch and tie on the new thread(s) for the next pass - even if one or more of the threads are actually continuing. I still cut them and tie them along with the rest 'cause that's SO much easier than trying to leave one or two attached while changing the others.