JST’s Shetland Blankie Recipe
I thought I would share Grant’s favourite Harrisville Shetland Blankie pattern with you – for free! Harrisville Shetland is such a wonderful blankie yarn. Available from JST in 46 lovely, heathered colours, it weaves up quickly and blooms beautifully when wet finished.
These blankets started as a 2 stripe overall division of space and then the borders and centre stripe were designed using the Fibonacci Numerical Series and overlaid on top. A pretty easy design process.
Grant couldn’t decide which green to pick for the centre … he kept going between Loden and Evergreen so … I decided he could have both. I used all the colours in the stripe for the weft in the second blanket, playing with the graphic. The other colours used were chosen to match different elements in our living room.
Enjoy weaving and cuddling under this blankie for many years to come 😉
Jane
Harrisville Shetland Yarns
100% wool available in 1/2 lb cones – 900 yds/cone (1800 yds per lb) Harrisville Shetland is spun more tightly (higher number of turns per inch) so it is very durable and will wear better and better every year. Washing makes the yarn even softer. The fibres blossom and have the ability to full and felt. Even if you knit with our yarn, it’s still a good idea to wash and block your finished project.
For more info on working with Shetland yarn, check out our Warping and Weaving with Harrisville Shetland as well as Fulling Instructions in the JST Knowledge Base for all the tips! For those that have a subscription to School of Weaving, don’t forget to check out/review Season 1 Episode 1.10.3 Fulling in the Washing Machine for more great tips on fulling fabrics. Jane fulls a mohair blanket in this episode but you can adapt the technique to make a Harrisville Shetland blanket.
Autumn Orchard Shetland Wraps
| Do you feel like wrapping yourself – or someone on your gift list – in a layer of cozy warmth? This wrap is the one you didn’t know you wanted 😉 The colours will remind you of the apple orchards that were so colourful not so long ago. Imagine sitting at your loom mixing and blending all the wonderful Harrisville Shetland colours in this kit. You could use one of the included colourways for one wrap and with the other – just have the fun of creating your own design. |
Level of Difficulty: Beginner
Weave structure: Plain Weave
Material: Harrisville Shetland
Each kit makes: 2 wraps (25.5″ X 74″ plus fringes)
Loom requirements:
Shafts: 4
Reed: 8 dent
Weaving width: 32″
Each kit includes:
Weaving instructions (including draft)
1 cone of Harrisville Shetland – Chianti
1 cone of Harrisville Shetland – Topaz
1 cone of Harrisville Shetland – Tundra
cone of Harrisville Shetland – Blackcherry
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Hello, I see that the Autumn Orchard Shetland Wrap kits are sold out. Is there a way to purchase or download the pattern only, and then I could just purchase the yarn separately?
Thanks, Dana
Hi Dana,
Harrisville is trying to catch up with all their colours which have been out of stock for so long. We are hoping to have a lot of these colours back in stock soon. The colours in Autumn Orchard are not availalbe. You should be fine with 2 1/2 cones for Grant’s Shetland Blankies for the main colours 🙂
Another question – for Grant’s Shetland Blankies, would 2, 1/2 lb cones of each of the main colours be sufficient (plus the other border and stripe colours)? I did the math, just wanted to double-check as I wasn’t sure about the weft requirements, and my estimate gives me a little more than 1 lb needed for each main colour. Thanks!