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| colours are natural white and a mossy green |
I dressed the loom with the cotton warp for tea towels, using a huck lace pattern. I chose a project from a magazine and modified it to fit my desired parameters. Then I started weaving, or at least tried to. One of the tie ups worked, for a true huck lace weave, but both the warp and the weft spot tie ups, just didn't work at all. In the end, I resorted to several websites for information, Sharon Alderman's book Mastering Weave Structures and Ann Dixon's Handweavers Pattern Directory in hopes of figuring out what was wrong. I got some ideas and I now know that I would use the more common huck threading next time instead of this one. In the end, I started lifting shafts and changing combinations until I found ones that worked for the huck spots. So totally not what the tie up is in the presented project. I'd even looked up errata before I'd started, and there was none that I could find.
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| too lazy to adjust the colours or retake the photo - |
All's well that ends well, I suppose, though I spent a good few hours working out the wrinkles in this one.
The regular huck lace, which uses 2 shafts for an even balance is super easy but as I'm using a counter balance loom, one of the shots in the warp spot pattern is a little small, as it is a 1/3 lifting pattern. I just have to be careful and slow down a bit because that is much faster in the end than unweaving to catch a skipped thread.
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| brilliant, multi-coloured cotton warp for a soft scarf |
This colourful scarf is from a guild project. It is made of cotton and has some sort of funky twill design, that you can only see in this photo and not really in real life. I didn't choose the pattern, but I think it is wasted on the bright multi-coloured, random stripes, at least with the pink weft. The pattern showed up nicely using a dark blue thread, but it changed the flavour of the project. I was going to give this away as a present, but my hubby asked for it. He then explained that he wanted to give it to me, knowing that I likely wouldn't keep it for myself otherwise.
I love the scarf - such bright colours, perfect for grey winter days! and as a totally beginner weaver - I still like the looks of your huck lace, but I can imagine that it must be quite frustrating having to work out kinks in a pattern, when you've followed it to the dot - same with knitting, but easier to do I think!
ReplyDeletehappy christmas to you and your family - I envisage you taking long walks with that bright scarf around your neck (and I think your husband is very clever to ask for it - to give it to you:)
Bettina
I love how Huck looks but have only woven it twice, both times on eight shafts. I too was fiddling, trying to adjust it to my size and had problems both times. I love yours!!
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