I've almost completed half of the fabric for the tote. This picture shows all three stripes and gives a decent idea of what the tote will look like from the side. It will be narrower as I will make pattern-matched shoulder straps from each side. #weaving
After two false starts from trying out a temple for the first time, I'm making progress on fabric I'm going to sew into a tote. #weaving
The wool scarf is done! This is a surprise present for a male family member (who doesn't read my social media feed). It took about 7.5 hours start to finish and I'm pleased with how it turned out. #weaving
Well that was fast. I just finished #weaving the scarf. Now I just need to take it off the loom, tie the fringe, and wash/full it.
My next #weaving project is a simple twill scarf using single-ply, natural color worsted-weight wool raised locally. Doing something this simple is a nice change of pace from my previous projects.
My rug is done! Here it is in its natural habitat. It took me a bit over 55 hours to make it in total. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out and learned a lot about Rep #weaving in the process.
Halfway through tying the fringe on the rug. I'm using a double Damascus edge which takes about 6 hours per side. #weaving
My rug is almost ready to take off the loom. The #weaving went quickly compared to the set up, but at the end here I'm struggling because I've run out of warp! I've had to pull many tricks out of my bag to finish this, but I think the final product will still be great.
I decided to measure my rug and remaining warp and I'm glad I did! This technique draws up much more warp than I was expecting so this 3'x5' rug will now be 3'x4'. Thankfully I caught it in time to adjust the pattern so it will still be symmetrical. #weaving
I have a rule that I don't buy yarn unless I already have a project in mind. I broke that rule today because, come on, local yarn with mug shots of the sheep it came from? How can you resist that? #weaving #fibershed
After a few false starts, the rug is finally starting to take shape! I think this is going to go pretty quickly at this point. #weaving
I'm now 24 working hours into my rug #weaving project. I had to buy more heddles to weave this dense, wide, large project. I have finished dressing the loom and am finally at the point where I can start weaving the rug itself.
Everything about #weaving this rug has been intimidating so far because of the giant scope of the project. For instance it took me almost four hours to wind the warp onto the warp beam. Threading the loom is next and it is equally daunting.
This may not look like a rug, but it's the first step. The width and the density of the warp meant I had to measure out 1760 individual threads. The result after 5 1/2 hours was 10 warp chains ready to wind onto my loom. #weaving
My next #weaving project is a ~3'x5' Rep weave rug. It will be the widest project I've done and will max out my loom's width. I had to buy more heddles to handle the 880 warp ends. I also had to convert the metric pattern to Imperial, and convert to the 5/2 cotton I'm using.
There is a #weaving saying: "Don't tie a knot when a bow will do." The idea of thinking through a process, and spending some time now to save more time later applies to so many areas of life.
I finished #weaving my overshot table runner! I had some extra warp at the end to play with so I experimented with a darker brown cloth weft and lime green pattern weft.
You can get a better sense of the pattern now that it's repeated a few times. This is called "Wandering Vine" (from Davison's famous #weaving pattern book) but is also known as "Cat Track" or "Snail Trail" which makes more sense once you can see more of the pattern.
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