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~ Structure Variations ~ Combining Warp and Weft Floats Are you ready for a special treat!  We have a weaving project that will give you the opportunity to experience structure variations, creating waffle weave on our rigid heddle looms.  This project is featured in Deborah Jarchow's newest book, Rigid Heddle Weaving Basics & Beyond.  Be sure to order your very own copy if you aren't already enjoying this book. Waffle weave is a 3-dimensional weaving pattern that is usually woven on multi-shaft looms. We can also accomplish this same weave structure on our rigid heddle looms by using pick-up sticks.  With warp and weft floats...

Amazing Colorways Fingertip Towels  Are you ready for a funtastic weaving adventure?  Get ready to be wowed as we explore color and weave at its finest!   Amazing Colorways Fingertip Towels in Black Cloud   We will start with a striped warp and then take off from there by weaving four different towels on this one warp.  There are so many color possibilities! From this one warp you can achieve so many different patterns that have a resemblance to each other but are also quite unique.  By using colors in different weft sequences, you can create many different color-and-weave effects.   This project is designed...

Three Times the Fun! This month's challenge will be creating a Houndstooth weave structure with three colors in the warp and weft.  Our "Three Times the Fun" Towels are the perfect opportunity to expand your weaving skills and create a beautiful pattern that will not only be fun but will be easier than you might think. We touched base with houndstooth back in November with our Houndstooth & Color Play Towels where we created the Houndstooth design using two shuttles as we weave.  We learned how easy it is to achieve such an interesting design while still weaving in just plain...

Weave Along with Deborah Jarchow: Brook's Bouquet Scarf  This month we are excited to team up with Deborah Jarchow to learn all about the hand manipulated technique, Brook's Bouquet!   Brook's Bouquet is a beautiful weave structure that adds dimension and interest to your weaving. This technique is also called lace-weave and is created by wrapping your weft yarn around the warp yarns. It is an open-shed technique, which means it's created when the shed is open.  All you need is yarn and a shuttle to achieve this lacy effect. By combining plain weave and Brook's Bouquet, elliptical shapes are created. You can create this hand manipulated...

Holly Berry Placemats This month we are going to learn about weaving a weft dominant weave structure.   Weft dominant weaving provides a solid, sturdy fabric which is great for weaving placemats, runners, bags and anything that needs to have body and structure. This is easily accomplished by choosing a thinner warp and combining it with a thicker weft. The weft threads will be dominant in the weaving, but we will still see the warp colors showing through. This technique can also be called weft rib-weave.   Our project this month will be using 8/2 cotton in the warp, while the weft consists of Mop Cotton and 8/2...