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What’s on, beside & under my loom 🙂
Tea towels in a 2/2 twill, sett at 22 epi/ppi playing with stripes, Fibonacci & zingers in Venne’s 2/8 organic cotton and a kitten. We’ve adopted this little fellow 3 days ago and he totally explored my loom this morning. After his first initial peek at what I was doing while standing on the cat carrier, he was all over the place, top, underneath, warp at the front AND back of the loom, over the treadles, under the treadles, grabbing the treadles cords, watching the shuttle go back and forth, name it, he checked it out. It was very slow cloth weaving. Now to teach him that my loom needs to be left alone, but sure made me smile & laugh, good way to start the day 🙂
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Just finished 4 picnic napkins. After watching the episode on sett I opened the sett for these up a little. They would not be sturdy enough for every day napkins I don’t think. But they match a basket handle I made on my Inkle loom and for a picnic basket they work!
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This is 10/2 cotton. I had it at 18 EPI and 18 PPI. It was actually hard to keep it at 18 PPI even with the lightest beat. And I had it set using an “odd” sett in 10 reed so I did have some lines in the fabric. Those have evened out a bit after washing but I don’t think I would do this iteration again. I do like them for their drape and as picnic napkins they are fine.
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My WIP is a long warp of big tea towels – Log Cabin frame with lace dots in the white middle section.
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My 15-year-old granddaughter, Sophia, mentioned in passing that she wanted to weave a small backpack sometime this summer. With 2 weeks left before school starts, we arranged a weekend where this could happen! I picked her up on Friday evening, and set her down with my sketchbook and pencil crayons and asked that she sketch an idea of what she wanted and in what colours. I told her about “Mr.” Fibonacci and how he could help her create a beautiful design. I went with her design and worked out the warp. We had to make an emergency run to a friend to borrow some 8/2 lilac and then came home to work. Sophia was hands-on all the way! By supper the warp was on and ready to weave and she finished weaving before we headed to bed, so we could wash it and let it dry overnight.
We had to do a bit of shopping on Sunday morning to find something that could be her straps and then I got to assembling the bag. I don’t like machine sewing, but I managed to figure out how to sew it together with a lining and attach the straps by hand. She is delighted the first item in her “fashion line” 😉
Because the warp would be so short, I added enough for a scarf, which I’ll weave off for her using some Bambu from my stash.
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Just started online guild earlier this year, and I had a warp on my loom that I had not started to weave. I am trying to finish this so I can get my first sample dressed on my loom. I am loving this throw done with Harrisville Shetland but want to test out the new things I have learned from these online videos. I can’t get my pic to upload.
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On my loom today is a new warp, full of exciting possibilities. This is the Parrot sample, with Apricot, Turmeric, Hot Pink, Raspberry, and Peacock, along with black as the zinger. I’m looking forward to working on it over the weekend.
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I finished the first part of the gamp sample from Season 2. So educational! Even though I got my sections a bit mixed up – the individual sections were threaded correctly and I wove in the sequence I warped so it works out ok. A cutout on black paper really helped. I decided to cut off the first sample so I could look at my work before moving on. The red lines indicate changes in weft
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Toddler weaver reporting in! Pretty much all of season one got me through this scarf – from planning the project all the way to fixing a broken warp thread. Feeling pretty pleased with how it turned out!
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Here is a set of dinner napkins I wove for my son’s family as a holiday gift. Two color and weave patterns in the warp and 10 different weft patterns. There were woven on a Jane 40 table loom while on a camping trip in the American Southwest during most of October. Also a sampler towel/runner/bread cloth/whatever from my extra warp.
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I am at least a couple weeks behind posting this. I got so excited about watching season two I just dug out my old RH loom and set to work on division of space using my little sketches. I even took my 10 dent rigid heddle and threaded for 18 epi! The fabric turned out amazing. I never dreamed you could do this with holes and slots but YES you can. I really learned so much making these 4 towels. Its all 8/2 cotton and so dreamy. I could play this game for ages.
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These are 2 scarves I wove recently from left over Tencel from a previous project. Used ideas from Session 4 on twills , and previous Colour and design workshop and Jane’s Weaving through India workshop I took a few years ago. The edge and center stripes are plain weave with twill in between
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I am so proud of these 4 towels I named Coleus. I used a combination of episodes to imagine it. Most scary was choosing a photo and picking colors to weave. The hardest part was the warp. I a sure I spent a week trying to figure out something plain enough to weave those bright weft.colors I used Parrot for my inspiration for the gamp squares and the small threading twill gamp from episode 4. Along the way I decided to weave a plain weave contemporary one just for measure. Anyway, Thanks Jane for so much inspiration and years of ideas yet to try.
Sally
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8/2 cottolin, 16 epi, 16 ppi, 1.5 times the thread count in the downloaded instructions, so this is 26.25 inches in the reed. Using up colors that I had in my stash rather than buying new to match the class/lesson colors. -
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I put this warp on my loom wile watching the “Tea Towels with Jane” series of videos on her Facebook group. The draft is different but is symmetrical and has the the same wide center panel. I was trying to match a set of new/old Giverney-colored plates in blue and yellow (sounds a little lame, I know). The sett is 18 in assorted 8/2 cottons. Used Fibonacci numbers in various ways. Looking forward to weaving her set!
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What happens if instead of posting a picture, if I post here a link to a youtube video?
Think I will try it and find out.
Video of a couple finished projectsI wonder if this link works?
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My simple collapse sample has one zephyr stripe that didn’t shrink like the rest—any ideas about why?
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No, I was using several related colours, and that stripe had two reds, very similar. In looking more carefully at my sample, the reds didn’t really shrink any where but the other threads did. Old Zephyr, but still in its sleeve.
Just in case, I went back to the sink, and really scrubbed that stripe—got a bit of shrinkage, but not at all like the other stripes! Interesting. The joys of stash busting.
I pulled out that stripe (hooray for season 2 replacing warps) , found some 24/2 merino in my stash and blended it with one of the shrinkers. I also realize that my sample is way over fulled, so will monitor the next round more carefully!
Thanks for the response.
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I have just finished a scarf in 6-thread herringbone. I love the variegated acrylic knitting yarn colours, so I put them into stripes with 2 warp ends of royal blue to isolate the stripes. The off-white stripes are a wool and silk blend. I figured that if I used the variegated yarn in the weft, I’d just lose the pattern. -
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Nothing on my loom right now. I have had a hiatus in my weaving as my husbands Alzheimer’s condition deteriorated substantially this year. But he is now in a nursing home and I am looking forward to filling my life with weaving and Jane. He always loved to see me at my loom and was always so impressed with how “clever” I was (I’m not!!). And he enjoyed my “factory noises when he was working in the garden. I suspect I will be turning a lot of my weaving into cushion covers I can share with him.
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Just finished a wool scarf I made from handspun yarn I made myself on my Schacht Matchless wheel. The yarn was 2-ply 90% Merino/10% Zwartbles that I blended for color on a hackle and then fizzed to make combed top. The yarn came out to 24 WPI, which made me happy because I wanted a true worsted yarn that was as fine a Jaggerspun 18/2, which is also 24 WPI.
I wove at a set of 18 and I used herringbone 2/2 twill. The drape is wonderful and the scarf is incredibly soft. Very happy with it. Could probably have woven at setts of 16 or 20.
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Hi
I’ve just finished weaving two big double weave scarves; one for my artist daughter who likes bold patterns. It’s woven in 20/2nm spun silk and 18/2nm tencel, set at 12 ends per cm, with 12 picks per cm. Once washed, the weave closes up nicely to form solid blocks of colour and it has a lovely weight and drape. The whole pattern was set up beforehand in Fiberworks using a profile draft, which was then converted to a lift plan using Block Substitution. I have only just discovered that function and it’s a real boon.
Warm wishes to all
Mary x
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I see the pictures of the towels I wove downloaded but not the explanation.
Doing some stash busting lately so wove these towels using the patterns that were featured recently to support the Maiwa foundation. The first 4 towels were from Jane’s Tea towel time with Jane . I did 2 in the turned twill to practice last months lesson. The last 4 were using the Stash , Crackle and Pop Tea towel pattern. Lots of fun choosing colors and freeing up bobbins and using ends of cones. Jennifer
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I am so grateful to have JST during this time. Laid off and home it is wonderful to have a hobby such as weaving to turn to and to have the guild as well. Watching the videos over and over again has been helpful. I am still trying to perfect my selvedges and keep watching what Jane does as she weaves to make them so clean BUT I am not there yet. After giving away all of my projects for presents I am on my next round of projects.
Shadow weave from Handwoven Sep 2017 issue. Had to really keep focused here to not mess up but good lesson in what colors work well for shadow weave.
Used silk mulberry weft with some Noro yarn I had bought years ago.
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JST has been a life saver to me these past few months as once my job was eliminated due to COVID I have been home and if it was not for having this wonderful hobby of weaving and having the lessons and learning so much from Jane I would be going bonkers. After giving all projects away for XMAS I thought I had better start making new projects for next year. The dent and cram lesson ended up with me trying to make use of the colors I already had in stock of 8/2 and some silks I had bought long ago along with some Noro yarn. I ventured in shadow weave and learned I had to really stay focused as I kept losing my place and I also had fun trying to explore how colors behaved together to create the shadow.
THANK YOU JANE and your team as I am sure there are many others out there home due to losing jobs or health or just being safe and distancing who are benefiting from your lessons during this time and staying busy.
Image 1 – All 8/2 and using for table runner.
Image 2 – 8/2 warp – silk mulberry for dented areas and 8/2 navy cram areas. Scarf.
Scarf 3 – 8/2 warp and mulberry silk yarn in cram and Noro in the dented spaces. Scarf.
8/2 shadow weave from Handwoven issue Sept/Oct 2017
Happy New Year to all.
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This is my first project on my new-to-me Mighty Wolf loom that I got in December. I started this project before signing up for Jane’s classes, so I can tell there are some things I would definitely do differently, but I am still happy with the results. The variegated yarn is some of my own handspun yarn; the tan is camel/silk, and the weft is a purple alpaca. I think it is a bit stiff, but I wonder if I need to give it another good washing and see if that softens it a bit. Also I do wonder after watching “Division of Space” if maybe the epi/ppi balance isn’t good enough for a twill. I just wanted to get started on my loom, so I designed it, warped it up and took off! I really did have fun with it!
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Here’s one more–I watched the mohair videos of Season 1 but my loom still has another project on it, so I decided to make a Mohair scarf on my rigid heddle loom while the lesson was still fresh in my mind. It is SO snuggly soft! I am in now in love with Mohair and I hope to make some double-weave blankets on my floor loom. I goofed on the ends, not brushing them out while wet since I did them before watching the finishing video, but I still love the softness and color of the scarf! I used 2 different kinds of mohair, simply because it was all I could find at a local yarn shop and I wanted to get started right away. 🙂 The green yarn had no extra binder yarns, so it was a bit thinner, hence the more open weave with the green warp. I doubled the green when I used it in the weft. Lots of room for improvement, but I’m still happy I gave it a go, even on my rigid heddle loom.
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My attempt at making a dress – Season 2 finale! Question: if i want a thicker canvas feel to the dress would using 8/4 cotton do the trick? (8/2 cotton used here). Question: what is best to make the inlay standout without affecting the weft? (8/2 cotton used here) What started off as a knee length dress is now a long shirt. Lesson learned; measure OFF tension! Thank you JST for your inspired teachings. Jocelyne B-
That is stunning, Jocelyne!!! The inlay is beautiful, just as it is! If you find the drape too loose, then I’d probably increase the sett, for – or for a lighter weight garment – weave it in 16/2 cotton. Jane gives different setts for the yarns she is familiar with as well as comment about the hand of the cloth in her Master Sett Chart.
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Thought I would share my latest projects – this one has taken me a long time to complete. It’s Deflected Double Weave and the warp and weft are Zepher 50/50 wool/silk as the shrinker and a collection of my hand-dyed silks that I wanted to use in a special project (a belated gift for my sister-in-law’s special birthday).
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Huck Sampler Just for fun, I wove the sample a second time, using a contrasting weft. Fun! O course, the truth is I made my warp a yard too long, ran out of periwinkle, still had a yard of warp, so went looking for warp—happened to have this red, so away I went. Interesting to see how it highlights the floats.
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The second item is a result of a promise to the COVID bakers in my life that I would weave them bread cloths. The draft is a combination of an 8 shaft Colour and Weave warp with Point Twill. I didn’t realize that I had a problem because it was hidden in the open sett of the cloth on the loom. When washed – the error screamed at me but it took me a bit to discover where it was. The tie-up cord had slipped off the knob for shaft #8 on one of my 9 treadles – I hadn’t secured it properly. Mistakes/accidents happen it’s frustrating but rewarding to work it out 😉 The large tea towel I wove for myself will remind me that weaving can be a challenge as well as very satisfying.
Error in the tie-up showing on the wrong side.
Correct tie-up
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Greetings from England. I love this thread; it’s so uplifting and joyous.
I’ve just finished an order for a Log Cabin scarf in black and blue Tencel with flashes of tomato red silk. But, I forgot to take a photo of it before I packed and sent it away.
So here’s a couple of photos of the remaining 2m of warp, where I substituted some of the black ends with orange silk using Jane’s very effective technique with empty yarn cones (thank you Jane). I have only just started weaving the scarf.
I really like the minute detail of log cabin when fine yarns are used. In this case 20/2 silk and 14/2 Tencel. Sett at 8 epcm, after washing and pressing the fabric has a lovely soft and silk drape which is just right for a luxurious scarf.
Best wishes everyone
Mary x
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First time posting fo’s and wip’s – what fun! Really loved working with the parrot sample. Not colours I would have chosen….but having done this sample I will now! The thinner scarf is with bamboo weft and has lovely drape.
The Colour and Weave Gamp blew my newbie mind with the threadings. Still working out the kinks of threading multiples at a time but it’s getting easier.
The image below is supposed to a baby blanket inspired by the colour and weave gamp. It is 4/8 cotton both warp and weft. Not sure if the fo will be soft enough to be baby blanket though. I started this project to be 10 epi, which took it to nearly the full available width of the Fanny. Turns out I couldn’t work out getting the shuttle through! It was to far to wing it without getting caught on the odd thread of the bottom shed or having it breach the lower shed and hit the floor. So I went with 12 epi as I can manage winging the shuttle through this width.
Question: Should I be getting a longer or heavier shuttle for wider pieces? Or do I just need to hone my winging technique? Advice appreciated.
Leslie
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Way to go, Leslie 👏👏👏 Your Parrot and Colour and Weave samples looks great! You’ll be fine at 12 epi and will be happy after you have washed that baby blanket. You don’t need a different/new shuttle – you should/could go back to Season 1: Episode 3 Good Weaving TechniqueGood Weaving Technique and watch it again. Jane shows us how to throw our shuttles and it does take practice and patience. BTW – I love your term for throwing your shuttle – winging it – the mental picture in my mind is a better one than throwing 😂
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Just finished these fingertip towels for a friend for use in her guest bathroom. ( I always live in hope that we will be able to have company over again one day. ) Made them with the left over warp after weaving the Huck sample in episode 5
I decided I did not need to make any more scarves so did the sample with 2/8 cotton in natural instead of the suggested bamboo -changing the sett and size so I could make the towels. I used version 1,4,5 and 11 for the towels -
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Overshot scarf on the loom – colours inspired by gorgeous outfits I have seen on Pakistani girls and women in our town.
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These are the dented scarves I made for the denting episode.
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