I have done the first round of blue stripes on my colour gamp. As with all new waving endeavors there were a few hiccups in the beginning stages. It’s for this reason that I am eternally grateful to the wonderful folks who created and contribute to Ravelry and Weavolution. It was the great minds and Weavolution that hellped me sort out the issue I was having in getting nice sheds.
The problem was simply that the second and third sheds were not opening neatly. The threads that were through the front slot together were sticking to one another. I began with simply seperating these threads with a second stick shuttle. The worst was the third shed, when the two rigid heddles were pushed down. So I decided, and the decision was confirmed by weavolution users, to use a pick up stick for this shed. Other users pointed out that after a few inches of weaving the issues would likely sort itself out, which is mostly has. There is still a bit of tweezing the sticky wool threads away from each other, but I’ve adapted and moved on, with the weaving going fairly quickly now. I just wove the third blue stripe in under a half hour. Each stripe is the same width as the warp stripes, which are just under 2″.
Here’s a photo of the gamp with just over 5″ woven.