Show and Tell May 2025

CNCH Projects and Impressions

Donna D – Baby Blankets in Swedish Lace

In our weave structures group our most recent structure was Swedish lace.                                   I did a set of 4 baby blankets with the same threading, but each a slightly different lace pattern.                                                                                                                                                                   They are 10/2 cotton white warp with 10/2 cotton either pale blue or pale pink weft.       SETT is 24.

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Lizzie T – Summer and Winter Towels

Here’s some photos of my latest finished project!                                                                                   It’s a set of summer and winter towels (and, in a very bad photo, potholders!) inspired by a class I took with Sarah Jackson at last year’s CNCH.                                                                        When you use the same size thread for both pattern and tabby weft, the colors blend together much more thoroughly, giving a really neat spectrum effect.                                                I’ve included one in-progress photo with Cordelia (my cat) so you can see the colors of the warp—the weft dramatically changes how it looks.

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Gail B – Purse and Pouch

Gail B. created a lovely purse and a small pouch from her weavings. 

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Ulla De L. – Towels on a Glimakra loom

I have been spending two months in Sweden where I have an 8 shaft, 36”
Glimåkra Ideal. Two years ago, I was given the stash from a cousin’s mother-in-law. Lots for
16/2 cotton and cottolin. I had many years ago woven a set of kitchen towels out of cottolin that I really like to use and have stood up very well. So, the choice was easy. The old towels were set at 30epi, very tight for the yarn, but I decided to keep the sett and made two 5-meter warps.

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Ange M. – Towels

Aviva G – Handknit Sweater

Here is a photo of a sweater that I just finished knitting. (The knitting is done, but I still need to block, sew on the buttons, and finish the steek.) The yarns are hand-spun top, 3-ply, size 3mm needles. The blue is from New Zealand ca. 1988, from Anna Gratton in Feilding, NZ, and I think it’s Corriedale mixed with some mohair and something with the reddish sparkle. The white is BFL/silk (80/20) top from a store in the US, because I needed white top. I did the spinning from about 2000 to 2024, and I did the knitting from about May 2024 until February 2025. The pattern is from Norwegian Knitting Designs 90 Years Later, which I followed as written except that I made the steek wider. 

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Johanna G. – Linen Runner

Here is my linen leno table runner I made at Ange’s Weave In weekend at her house. It was a lot of fun and hope there are more of them.

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Gail B. – Beautiful pick-up work

Attached are five pictures in approximately the order made. I’ve been playing with more pick-up work, this time drawing inspiration from the book, Crazyshot! Creative Overshot Weaving on the Rigid Heddle Loom, by Myra Wood. Two projects were done on 4 shaft loom, 2 on a rigid heddle. All patterning done with a pick-up stick.

1. Wall Hanging front and back

2. Coasters and 3. Neckwarmer

4. Future purse, on the cricket loom

Gudrun P – A T-shirt to remember

Cut into 1 cm wide strips a T-shirt turns into a lot of colorful cotton yarn.

The left and right sleeves turned into a mug rug each. Woven with Sugar’n Cream cotton in Rosepath bound weave, on opposites.

The six miniature T-shirts were woven together with a white T-shirt in pick-up Taqueté.  Pick-up Taqueté can be woven on two shafts that are threaded as plain weave with a floating warps between threaded warp threads.

Show and Tell January 2025

Cheryl H – Crocheted Silk Threads

Ulla De L – Woven Linen Towels

Lizzy T-H – Seasonal Baskets

Gudrun P – Plant a Tree

The little known technique of “chained weft loops” is used to create small pictures of trees. Each one of the trees has meaning to me because it reminds me of times, places, and people. 

The Technique / Diagram

Chestnut Tree

Burned Redwood Tree

Christmas Tree

Diana H – Bench Cover

This is 23” x 52” Echo Weave, woven with 2 colors of 16/2 Bockens Lingarn linen on an 8 shaft Glimåkra Standard Countermarch loom.

The pattern came from Marian Stubenitsky’s Weaving with Echo and Iris book on page 13. It was woven to reupholster a bench that was built by my Grandpa and sits at the foot of my bed.

Gail B – Dukagang wall hanging

Dukagång wall hanging (6.5″ x 15.5″) in 10/2 cotton with 2/10 Merino Tencel pattern weft. 

My thanks to Suzie Liles for the source inspiration and beginner’s instructions in Handwoven Mar/Apr 2017!

Show and Tell December 2024

Lynn C. –  Woven Flower

Woven with cotton warp and DMC pearl cotton weft, 10 epi, 20×20″.                                            The flower is done with soumak stitch.

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Ange M. – Bronson Lace Top

Ange’s top was made to wear on a textile tour last summer after she was being chided for not having any handwoven items on her last textile tour.                                                                 20/2 cotton Bronson lace of her own design.

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Carol C. – Handspun Cormo Christening Blanket

This handspun and knitted Cormo Christening Blanket was made for Carol’s granddaughter Adelina.                                                                                                                                    The blanket won Best of Show at the 2024 Monterey Wool Show AND 4 awards at the Santa Cruz County Fair. 

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Kathleen D. – Deflected Double-Weave table runner

Deflected double-weave table runner woven by Kathleen D. of Duet 5/2 cotton/linen blend, 18 epi, from a pattern by Elisabeth Hill. 

Johanna G – Various Tunics with handwoven fabrics

  Gail B donated the material for this black and white tunic, per Simplicity pattern1461

   

   

Lynn C – Woven fabric with Soumak stitch

From Lynn Curry: 8 x 14″. Woven with cotton
warp thread and pearl cotton weft. The lines
are done with soumak stitch. “I was trying out
some ideas I may use for a larger design and I
improved my technique and learned some
things from weaving this. “

Gail B – My Cottolin Project

I finally completed the Cottolin project that began as an attempt at a set of dishtowels. It instead morphed into a shawl, which I hurriedly finished with twists to wear to a June family wedding.

Over the summer, I also tied a new color scheme onto the center of the remaining warp to make a scarf. This week, after finishing its twists, I forced myself to better align the knots on the shawl as well, at last trimming the ends cleanly. It was fiddly work – after 224 twists in all, I’m ready to move on to a new project. 

The shawl wet-finished softer than the  scarf, even though they’re both Cottolin of identical sett. I think I gave the shawl a hot-water wash, while the scarf got a cold one, so I may eventually rewash the scarf. 

Stripes are woven in a 3/1 twill between areas of basket weave. 

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Donna D. – Dancing Blocks

These were intended to be a set of dinner table napkins.  The warp was a neutral linen that I bought in Latvia.  The weft is 5/2 cotton in various colors. 

The pattern was from handweaving.net ( # 16103 ) with the addition of the plain weave border.  I called it “dancing blocks”!

Gudrun P. – Handspun scarf

John H. – Rock Weaving

I took a Zoom class two weeks ago on off-loom weaving using rocks, aka Rock Weaving. The class was taught by Lark and Bower (Sarah Ward Podlesney), @larkandbower on
Instagram.

I made one log cabin weave on an actual rock and two twill weaves on some old, dead cell phones that I had lying around.

Ulla de L. – Woven Fabric for a skirt

My US looms are still packed away but I have one in Sweden on which I set up a color/weave pattern last summer. The house was full of kids so the carport would have to do.

The pattern is on 7 shafts and quite subtle.

I have made it on 15 shafts in the past and then the pattern is much more clear.

The blue cottolin shrank more than I expected and I had to add a panel to be
able to wear the skirt. That extra panel made for a handy pocket.