My September weaving project - a trio of table runners. I wove these runners on my rigid heddle loom using some dark blue rayon mill end yarns as the warp and main weft. These yarns, which came from Yarn Barn of Lawrence, Kansas, had been in my weaving collection for a couple of years. It felt good to use them up. The accent stripes were synthetic novelty yarns from my knitting stash.
The warp is set at 12 ends per inch. The width on the loom is 18.3" and the length varies from runner to runner. Each one is different. For the first piece I used pattern sticks to weave weft and warp floats to create a single horizontal pattern. The accent yarn is the synthetic novelty yarn.
On the second runner I used the same pick up pattern but repeated it several times to make a wider border band. This pattern of warp and weft floats requires the use of 2 pattern sticks, one to make weft floats and another to make warp floats. It is a quick and easy pattern though. One stick remains in the warp all along. The second stick (which creates the warp floats) has to be reinserted each time it is needed, but it is easy to see which warp threads are picked up.
The third runner was the easiest of all to weave. It is straight plain weave throughout. For the borders I simply alternated wefts of accent yarn with wefts of the main color.
On all of the runners I hemstitched the edges while the pieces were still on the loom. Once all were woven I cut them off the loom, trimmed the fringe, and wet-finished them. Voila! All are finished and ready to use. Only thing is ... now I have an empty loom again ...
I imagine you won't have an empty loom for long!
ReplyDeleteThey are all lovely!