Well I finished threading late last night.  The threading photo is  not a very good.  I wanted to show the fine thread.  However what looked good on the review panel on the camera did not look nearly as good on the computer.  The woven samples photo is better,

Anyway I am working on Tied Weave samples for a complex weavers group that I belong too.  I have to work really hard to get these samples finished so they can be shipped to arrive at their destination by May.  I was off to a good start this year and was very excited about my draft.  I learned a lot doing this as my draft is not traditional the ground is broken twill.  The warp is 120/2 and the pattern weft is 2/18  wool.

I sat down to the loom and started to thread about three weeks ago.  I got better than half done when I realized that I had no way to get my draft on to the computer that runs my loom.  The computer is so old that the only way to load a document is on a 3.25" disk.

My old desk top died before Christmas last year and my laptop does not have a 3.25" disk drive.  I could not connect the laptop to the loom because it does not have a serial port.  So, I panicked.

I knew that AVL had a converter to connect the serial cable to modern computers.  When contacted AVL I found out that the converter would cost almost fifty dollars.  I was very dismayed, but started to order it, then I found out the wanted to charge me $18.00 to mail it to me.  This is just regular mail.  I hate getting gouged for shipping.  So I started looking for other sources.  I found a substitute for $18.00 and the shipping was only $6.00.  I have not tried it out yet,  because I also found a plug and play 3.25"  drive.  I was able to transfer the file with that to the computer the is already connected to the loom.  After I am finished with the samples I will try hooking up my current laptop and let you know if the adapter I purchased worked.