Yes, I'm still weaving

I've been lazy for a while, when we speek of blogging.

I'm in progess. My crepe project.

Worsted yarn as warp and Noro multicolor as weft.

Width in the reed: 120 cm (c 47 inch)

Only one for help when beaming.

Ask my husband for help, I need a "little helper" in danish "pådragningsknægt".

PVC pipe, a plank and some rope and the work is done.

I made 3 warp, 40 cm each

That's what (hand)weights is intended for

The work is done

The advantage of a "a little helper" is quite clear that the weaver can beam at their own pace.  

The idyll at the family is intact.

Towels again and again

Usually I say, that lives is too short for homemade towels, anyway one is allowed to make a new (and better) decision.

My sister has ordered these towels. ( It's, in fact, my first order). It has been very funny making different designs. The colors were given by my sister. She decided on a design I had made before in another colorcombination.

I used Spot Bronson

Every handwoven towel need a special loop

A rainbow of wintry colors

Sometimes you see a spectacular color combination when you are out in the nature.
As at a winter day, whit frost in the air and at the time for sunset. Looking at east, the sky are deeply blue, when you ran your eyes over the sky towards west, the color turns lighter blue into turquoise before it went white just before it meet the colors of the sunset. Pink and Purple.

I really want to use these colors.
Until now, I haven't know what to weave.
However, I have already done it:

I have another blog Rasminnas Hverdag (sorry, it's in Danish).
I got a nice comment: It's a kind of Winter Rainbow"
Yes it is!

Playing with crepe

I have a small amount of some Sekku yarn from Noro that I could imagine transforming into some woven textile and then sew something portable.

Which pattern should I choose?

I've never tried crepe, so it must be it.

I know the Sekku yarn is a weft yarn, however I want to try different yarn types / colors in  the warp, but I find it difficult to determine which and there are also more freedom to choose if I use Sekku'en as a warp.

So I did! The first break in the warp thread was already on the warping board!

There were 2 broken warp threads before I had woven 20 cm. But then the warp was steady  the following meter and then there was just 3 broken treads in the last 20 cm. So one can be learning it!

I wove 2 different crepe patterns, both 8 shafts and 8 treadles.

First tie up is from Mastering Weave Structures.

28/2 worsted

Drops Lace - Merino and silk

The second tie up I found in Varp och Inslag (Warp and Weft)

The sett is too close, so there is not as much movement after washing, as I could wish.

After washing the pattern from Mastering Weave Structures looks like this:

The samples from Varp och Inslag have more structure

I have decided to continue working with the brown worsted yarn.
Next move will be a new sample weave with worsted yarn as warp and with more loose sett.

Spot bronson and towels

I made some towels in spot bronson. The warp was 20/2 cotton and I used 20/1 unbleached linen and 16/1 light blue linen as weft.
I chose to do a close spot bronson.

the quality of these towels are superp, they are soft and very absorbent, the best towels I have ever woven, but they are not beautiful. The set are too loose, especially with the 20/1 unbleached linen.

It's better whit the 16/1 linen

Half a year ago, I wove a sample in double weave and I got some leftovers (ca 3½ m) and I chose a spot bronson again, but now I added some plain weave

The warp is 16/2 cotton and the weft is 16/1 linen.
It appears to be a nice pattern

I made 3 towels
I haven't tried them yet

A loop, of course

Autumn colors

This summer I invested in a rigid heddle loom. I bought it from my mother in law's friend, who had inherited it from her mother and didn't want to use it.

On one of the few warm and sunny days we had I sat in the garden and I wove the autumn scarf.

I made some samples that I treated differently.

The sample at left is untreated, the sample in the middle is felted by hand and the sample on the right got the big trip in the washing machine at 60 degrees celsius and 1500 rpm of spin.









At the end I chose to felt by hand

It is perfect for autumn

Headless error

All weavers are familiar with the thrill when you have completed all the settings for a new warp, the pins holding the top lamms has been removed and you sit down at the weaving bench, grabs the shuttle and push the first treadle down, put the weft in, beats along, next treadle, weft, beat together. All treadles must of course be tested before you can lift your arms above your head and shout YES, I did it again ....... or not.

A simple treading error, again and again, urrgh......


Sometimes you can be lucky to simply have treadled a single thread in the wrong shaft, then you can cut the heddless and bind a new heddless at the right shaft, around the thread.

the eye has the right size

I made 2 errors on the tablecloth I'm working on, both were treading on the wrong shaft.
I then tied 2 new heddles on the right shafts, one works perfectly, while the other, I haven't been entirely accurate enough to make the eye like the heddless sitting next to, so when the shaft is lowered, the tread is not lowered enough and the thread will not be caught by the shuttle.

this eye is to big