My last project on the Schacht was a Christmas table runner and napkins
of cottolin, and one of the wefts was 20/2 linen leftover from a project
long, long ago and far, far away.
After I remembered to try dampening the weft, it worked fine, but before
that I was having frustrating problems with it being wirey (or should
that be wiry--neither look right! :)
So I got out one of the fly shuttles, wound a pirn, and gave that a try.
I followed the instructions as carefully as I could, but the yarn kept
catching on itself rather than unwinding smoothly. I won't mention the
difficulties of throwing and catching a fly shuttle <ouch!>
So I wound another pirn. More tension, more care. Still problems. And
another. At that point I remembered dampening the weft and went back to
a standard side-delivery shuttle.
If anyone has any tips for winding pirns they'd like to share, that
don't duplicate the standard instructions, I'm all eyes!
Holly
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