The progress on the Oseberg narrow band has been interesting! The weave went well for the first section of the weave, until the working threads became very twisted. There was a solution offered by my pattern, however, I believe I did it incorrectly. After flipping the cards stated on the pattern, my pattern disappeared! I worked with it for awhile, but found that some of the border threads weren’t even being picked up with the weft. I attempted to reverse my card flipping and continue, which “fixed” the pattern in one way, as it worked properly, however it made a new pattern entirely!
I am still working on undoing this mistake, as I thought I had switched by cards back, but clearly not! After meeting with the group I am going to go through my cards with a finer eye to ensure they’re all correct. However, I’m happy with my band, errors and all, if I hadn’t made mistakes, I wouldn’t have learnt anything! I think part of my error was getting impatient with the stiffness of my threads due to the twisting, which lead to me trying to untwist them like this in the first place. Even when not working correctly, I am still enjoying the process of tablet weaving, with certainly more respect for even the more “simpler” of designs.
-Tika