You all had some great comments and I wanted to share with everyone my thoughts and some answers to your questions.
Delighted Hands said...
So excited for you! You will be weaving up some amazing cloth in no time now! Nice work!
Thanks, I'm really itching to start, I've been looking at drafts and saving the ones I'd like to try out. I can tell you that the draft folder is getting full pretty fast.
Acorn to Oak said...
I'm so excited for you! You must be having so much fun!! :-D
Thanks, I did have fun along with the hard work, but am looking forward to it.
Judy said...
Wow-you must be jazzed! What a nice find and I bet the previous owner is happy that the loom went to an active weaver's house.
I think jazzed just about covers it. They were happy that I took it and was planning on restoring and putting it to good use.
ladyoftheloom said...
Wow! What a great job you have done with the Mac loom. My weaving teacher Cherri LOVES her Macs and the company too.10 harnesses, I am so jealous.
I've heard quite a few people love their Mac's and don't want to weave on much else, since this is my first big loom I can only compare it to my poor RH loom and that's kind of unfair. LOL.. Truth be told I'm afraid of the 10 harnesses, I know everyone say oooohhhhh you have 10 but coming from just 2, 10 is rather daunting to think about.
Charlotte said...
Brilliant! She looks great, happy weaving, looking forward to seeing those twills!
As soon as my chubby fingers get moving I'll be posting some serious twills and much more.
Benita said...
Congratulations!!! All that hard (and dusty) work has paid off nicely. You have a gem of a loom there and I can't wait to see what you create with it. Have you named the loom, BTW?
Thanks, yes it was hard, dusty, hot as hell, but rewarding, I've been happy tired if that makes any sense. I can't wait either, I really want to see how she works. The naming of the loom has been a bit of a conflict within my mind. I'm an avid Debbie Macomber reader, she's one of my favorite writers (I like happy endings) and since her last name is Macomber my first reaction was to name the loom Debbie, but then the previous owner is Peggy and I would like to honor her for the awesome gift she gave me. So I haven't really wanted to name her anything yet. I was thinking of a hybrid name like Deggy, Pebbie, De'pegy Pegbie.... but nothing really works in my mind.
Let me think about a "naming the loom" contest...
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She or he will find their name or you'll just take to calling it something. While in posts I refer to the Julia loom as Julia, in real life she's LRJ, the little red job.;)
Nice to see a follow up post! I never name my equipment....I only have one loom and so maybe if I had more I would.
I'm sure you'll have fun with the options and designs you can make with more shafts, so just start at the beginning of a beginner weaving book or other design that says it's simple, or try out a two shaft design you'd have made on your rigid heddle (temporarily forget you have the ones you don't need for the design), so you are just getting used to threading and using the loom, and then move forward from there! I'm sure you'll love it, as it will be so much faster!
I haven't named my looms either, since none of them are the same, I just refer to them by type or manufacturer's name. I don't name my sewing machines either.
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