Do you ever have a project that seems to be doomed to trip you up at every turn?
I am having one of those. I FINALLY got my second double weave tied up on the loom and ready to begin weaving. I was putting in the header to spread the warp when I noticed a stray tread that didn't seem to be doing anything. I traced it back to find that somehow it had escaped its heddle and was floating around freely like a floating selvage. IN THE MIDDLE of my 30" wide warp!!!! ARGH. I wish there was a magical way to just add another heddle, but I know that is not possible. If this blanket get woven in time for Christmas it will be a miracle!

Deb, I feel your pain. On Saturday, I spent the ENTIRE day threading the warp for the Crackle lesson on my upstairs (smaller) loom. Got to the final section of blue threads on the left side, and I would not have been on the correct sequence of the pattern....arghhh. Went back to the right side of the heddles, and went thread by thread till I caught my error...of course it was almost at the start. Re-threaded the heddles, got back to the blue section and saw that I had too many grey threads left, so just pulled those out of the warp and dropped them off the back beam.

Sleyed the reed, leaving a few empty dents on the right...only to get to the final dents and NOT have enough dents. Resleyed from the right using ALL of the dents. Tied onto the front bar, put on some tension and started raising the shafts. I had a 1 1/2" section with NO threads on the number 4 harness...WTH?? More threading errors.

I have now rewritten the grey portion of the warp, and deleted the first and last twill extensions of the grey threads, and added a rose path threading to the points of the twill so that the warp will better fit my 23" weaving width so it's not end to end. Thanks to Jane's excellent training, I felt comfortable drawing and diagraming out the changes to ensure I followed the "Crackle Rules".

I have the exact threading written down, thread by thread, and I will thread it in 4 thread units and cross off my progress on the paper as I go.

Patience is a virtue I don't have enough of, and I'm amazed that I haven't had a hissy fit LOL.

BTW, I love your colors !!

OMG. THAT makes my head hurt! LOL. Seriously, though, yours would have me running away screaming. You have the patience of a saint!
Maybe it is a phase of the moon that is doing this! Haha.
I had so much trouble with mine, I didn't even say how many times I re-sleyed the reed! Trying to get it centered and all, and that was how one of the groups of threads got twisted. So frustrating! It's a good thing we like weaving, isn't it?
I am still not sure about my colors, to be honest. I keep telling myself "Don't judge it until it is washed and fulled!"

Another problem I am having is the color change in the gold and melon sections. Because there are only two gold, four melon, two gold, it makes for awkward color changes. I am hope the "water magic" fixes that, too.

I'm going to start threading the loom today. Have lots on my plate as I'm leaving for a 5 day vacation tomorrow.

It's amazing how the fulling process brings everything together! Happy weaving Deb !!

Thanks, Cheryl. Anxious to see your next project, but have a good time!

Oh I am so glad I am not alone in the error world of weaving . Weaving has certainly taught me patience. I learned that it is worth going back and correcting the errors.

OMGosh....doomed, doomed, doomed for sure. I did some plain weave on the doomed project after all of the careful rethreading and resleying, and it looked fine...

Went on vacation. Yesterday, I started weaving in the Crackle pattern.....ARGH...at least 3 threading errors. I have NEVER had anything close to this many problems. At 7 o'clock in the morning, is it too early to have a glass of wine before tackling the warping errors??

OMG Cheryl. I am so sorry. I like Sandra’s comment. Though you might not want to tackle it until the spiked coffee wears off. 🤣😛

4th time threading was the charm LOL. Now the crackle pattern looks as it should. This was a lesson in perseverance for sure. If I didn't need one of the towels for a Christmas towel exchange in a week and a half, I probably would have pulled everything off the loom and stomped on it. Whew !!

I am posting the latest update for my DOOMED project...

I have never in all my years weaving had so many problems with ONE warp. Calculated if the Crackle pattern as written by JST would fit my table loom...theoretically yes. Started threading at right side, got close to left side...nope too wide. Took out an extension on pattern, rethreaded.

Started sleying reed on right side..left about 1/2" empty on right. Got close to left side...nope not enough empty dents. Sleyed again using very 1st right hand dent.
Tied onto front rod. Started raising shafts...had a good 2 1/2" section with NO threads on shaft number 4.

Reworked entire threading for a Rosepath/Crackle pattern with fewer extensions...dropped extra, un-needed warp threads off back of loom on each side.
Sleyed and tied onto front rod. Wove some plain weave and it look fine. Went on vacation to Atlanta.

Came home and started weaving in the pattern....at least 3 threading errors.
Rethreaded, AGAIN, this time in 9 thread units, rechecking each unit for accuracy. Sleyed and tied onto front rod AGAIN.

Started weaving Tromp as Writ towel...lovely. Got to about 3 inches to completion when the far right threads got too tight. Went to back of loom and those threads had slipped off of the packing cardboard sticks and were wrapped around the back warp beam. ARGHH.

Unrolled threads from back beam to unstick the trapped threads and in doing so, on other side got the unused threads tangled up all around the warp beam. WTH??!!@#
Carefully CUT the f'ing warp threads off of the warp beam, and as carefully as I could, lashed the warp in bundles back onto the warp beam.

Wound on the warp, and finished weaving the last bit of the first towel. See photo for all of the weights I had hanging off of the warp to even out the tension as much as I could.
Cut that towel off of the front. Pulled the warp completely through the front of the loom, and rewound it onto the back, evenly tensioned.

Weaving towel #2 going without problem (so far). A lesson in patience, and perseverance. I wanted to cut the whole mess off and stomp on it.

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You are so right, Sandra! The trouble-makers do tend to be more loved. Needy projects ! 🤣

I uploaded the photos of my finished Crackle Warp towels to the "What's on your loom December" thread...really loved them after the problems were corrected.