Thank you Beth, good to know.
Off the loom, washed, dried and pressed...ready to sew the hems. I used the colors brick, limette and peach for everything but the final towel (which is on the top left). For that one I used natural and limette boucle for the weft and L, L ,D, L, D, L D for the color order. It was my favorite. I wove two of the towels in the center and the LONG one on the bottom will be a table runner.
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love love love!!!
They look great Cheryl! :)
Those look delicious Cheryl!
Nice and summery, Cheryl. Good job.
So nice!
I really like the peach. Makes it warmer, but still so fresh!
I started with Halfdrall. Really fun to weave! Because I liked so much the colored tie down in the show and tell I added this in the middle.
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Is it recommendable to weave a larger section just with alternating 12 / 34 without Tabby between or is this to delicate for a towel? Looks a bit fragile on the loom.
The tabby is what holds the fabric together - without it, the pattern picks could slide together, especially in a towel that will get hard use. So your instinct that the fabric was delicate was correct - trust your instinct!
Thank you Sandra!
Catherine, I don't know the answer to your question....but the weaving in your last photo is FAB!!
I just finished watching Season 7, episode 6 and was very much taken with the silk shawl, I believe Jane said in 20/2 silk. I have some cones of this yarn that's been looking for a project.
My question is the sett to use. For 2/8 cotton a sett of 15 epi is suggested.
The master chart recommends 16 or 18 epi for 20/2 silk when woven in PW with 2/8 cotton. So, should I try 15 epi or even as low as 12 in crackle weave? I don't have a huge amount to sample with, so I would like to start in or near the ballpark.
Thanks
The crackle shawl in Season 7 Episode 6 was woven at 24 epi and ppi, as it was woven without tabbies, just as a twill. A more open sett would not have worked, as there are lots and lots of three-end floats, just like in twill. The shawl you saw was woven with three colours, but could have been woven in two, an alternating light and dark in each the warp and the weft, with a warp of 2.5 - 2.75 yards. Anything longer than that and I would have run out of weft yarn. It was so much fun to design, starting with a 2/2 twill profile then changing it to crackle manually in my weaving software, so as to be sure that the incidentals were in the correct places.
Thank you for the information.
I was thinking of weaving classic crackle with tabby and something more geometric. My colours are rather wild! I think I'll try 15 epi for starters.
But I'll try in Fiberworks my favourite overshot patterns, threaded as crackle and woven on opposites as the beautiful one you wove. That piece has really motivated me!
Photo to come. Eventually.
Was the sett for Rebecca’s towels in episode 7 the standard 15 called for in Jane’s lesson plans or was it different because she treated them as a twill?
Hi Jacqui - I wove those towels at 20 epi and ppi, the sett Jane likes for 8/2 cotton in twill. As they were woven without tabbies the weaving was fast, just straight crackle. They were woven with two shuttles though, a bright and a black, alternating single picks in the weft.
Thank you, i love them and am warping now with a medium blue and a sky blue along with dark charcoal warp, goes with my kitchen better than the black. Will do Jane’s lesson right after, but had to try this first. Beautiful design, thanks for sharing it!
Sounds gorgeous! Have fun with the weaving.
Thanks!
Yes, this is Halfdrall. I just changed the original threading in the middle to ABAB.. with zingers.
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