Busy busy
I've got a new warp on the loom. 10/2 cotton in an 8 shaft rosepath pattern to do some fingertip towels with pattern borders. I'm doing 4 of them with Christmas Trees for a pastor at Brent's church. She's requested them before Christmas for her gift giving needs.
I just got started weaving today after spending quite a bit time with my tieup plan. The Christmas tree draft requires 17 treadles, which is great if you've got a computerized loom, but not so great for a 10 treadle loom. I used the treadle reducer here but it said there's no way to convert the draft to 10 treadles without depressing more than 2 treadles at once. I messed around with the inputs a bit and got it all into 10 treadles except for one combination (shafts 2 and 6). So I went with that tie-up, and when I come to the pick for that one missing combination, I just pull the cords manually to lift the shafts. This is working out quite well since that pick only happens twice per towel.
I'm quite proud of my own cleverness (and grateful for the treadle reducer tool).
Unfortunately, after just finishing weaving one border of Christmas trees, one of my shafts fell. Now that happens sometimes if it escapes its little hook, but no! Eek! The cable broke. Booooo! Fortunately, Harrisville Designs has extra cables available on their website so I put in an order.
In the past week, I've also been putting a few things up for sale on etsy. I keep accumulating woven fabric and I had several things from the guild sale that didn't sell, so I got them all photographed and up online here.
I also pulled out some ivory felted fabric to see what I might be able to make from it. I made a sample baby bootie but I'm not quite happy with the shape so I'll set it aside and do some thinking about what I want to make.
Labels: baby bootie, etsy, loom, towels, trouble
posted by Carrie @ 3:13 PM
4 Comments:
Hi!
Thanks for commenting on my blog! It's nice to meet you!! Your work on Etsy looks great!!
The towels you're working on sound really cool. I think next year I'll start Christmas weaving in January!!
Have fun!
Sue
Hi...
Your towels on rosepath are beautiful! I played around with rosepath several years ago when I had a 4 shaft loom and found it lots of fun and very versatile. Now that I have 8 shafts... I thought I'd try it again. Where did you get your draft? Did you just extend the 4 shafts up and if so how did you do your treadling and tieup?
Thanks so much for your help! I'm hoping to get started on this soon.
Suzy
Hi Suzy. I did indeed just extend the four shafts up, so my threading was 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-1-8-7-6-5-4-3-2 (repeated across). If you have any weaving software you can put in this threading and experiment with many different tie-ups for the overshot pattern part. There are so many options!
I only did some simple patterns that way though, because someone else had come up with some brilliant tie-ups already. I found them in A Weaver's Book of 8 Shaft patterns edited by Carol Strickler.
There are I think 4 pages of all sorts of motifs that can be done on this threading. I'm partial to trees, but there are lots of other things too.
If you just have 10 treadles (as I do), you may have to redo the tie-up since there are often more than 10 treadles shown in the book. I suppose they do that for the lucky folks with Dobby or AVL looms.
There's an online treadle reducer that helps. I also had to look at the drafts and figure out where I could combine things when the treadle reducer couldn't come up with a solution for me.
Good luck! You might also enjoy the current weavealong for 4 shaft rosepath tea towels over on Weavolution.com.
Thanks so much for getting back to me so quickly. I'll have to check out my copy of Strickler's book. I too am limited to 10 treadles with my Mighty Wolf, but there are more than enough variations to try!
I love Weavolution and will check the weavealong as well! My name is suzyhok on Weavo...
Happy weaving and thanks for your inspiration!
Suzy
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