Computer drafts

Still looking for the next project. I went back through some of my old paperwork and found these. Looks like some four and eight shaft work...overshot and summer and winter.

I don't think I have woven the blue-pink draft. I believe it's eight shaft summer and winter. Hummm................

Overshot Edges

Now most times when you are weaving overshot, you will need to have floating selvages. But with this eight shaft overshot draft you don't. Why? (you ask)... Because I am throwing a pattern+tabby with each pick. (The pattern from one motif + the tabby from the other motif.)

Take a close up look. You can also see how I change the color order to get the motif colors to flip-flop.

Color and Overshot

Now I am trying green and orange as my weft colors. See how the white warp 'tones' down the colors in the plain weave areas? Interesting, don't you think?

And yes, I am weaving this upside -down. You will be able to see the diagonal line running through the one motif once I take this off the loom and turn it over.

Empty Bobbins

The good thing about playing around with this draft is I am emptying lots of bobbins.... I am not sure why I don't empty them when I finish with a project.?.?

One of the main things I have figured out with this draft is: 'it is very important to find THREE colors that work together' ! That includes remembering the warp is a color too!!!!!!

 Anyway, it's been fun playing round!!

Making More Lemonade

Now to try some different color choices. It's interesting to see when I use white for one of the colors.....

Making Lemonade

When life sends you float-skips, you just have to make lemonade..... So I will do what I usually do when faced with errors: PLAY.

I am going to just keep changing colors until I find something that I think looks good. This is using red and a purple and then with red and white as wefts. When I use white (it's really an off white) it gives a light purple. Interesting.....

Float My Boat

Did you ever wonder why it looks so good on the side you are looking at as you weave, but the back side only comes into view after you have woven 22 inches, and it doesn't look so good?????????????????


So I will cut my losses and see if I can salvage enough to do a pillow top or something.... whine, whimper, whine....

Remembrance Continues....

Now that I have my facts, sort of, figured out of where I got this motif....

for this overshot on eight shafts and twelve treadles, I am weaving one motif on the first four shafts in star fashion and those threads on the second four shafts in rose fashion. I am stepping on two treadles at a time to get my pattern.



First pick, Brown is first to be thrown.

When I do this, I want to keep my shuttles in order so I automatically pick up the next one. Because when I am ready for a new treadling repeat, I switch the order I throw the shuttles.  Here is my way of keeping that in order. (after I finish this pattern repeat, I will switch and have the nave go first)

next throw ,Gold goes in the same shed as the brown.

 The reason I am using three shuttles, is that I didn't want to wind the brown and gold on one bobbin..

Next pick,
Now I throw the Navy.

Now I am back to picking up the Brown...until it is time to change the color order.... but gold will always follow the brown, because I think of them as 'one' thread.

 

Remembrance , or Senior Moment

Just to correct an earlier post.... One of my friends says she couldn't find the 'remembrance' motif in the Weaver Rose book that I quoted to you all.... well..... she is not as crazy as we think she is......that motif was found in this book:

and on this page............

Threading the Heddles for 8 shaft Overshot

This draft I am threading through the heddles is really two four shaft overshot drafts combined onto an eight shaft loom. You can see the groups of those on the the first four shafts and those on the next four shafts. I am excited to start working on this.

To get a sneak peak at what I am doing, go to the Weaver's Issue 33, Fall 1996, pages 38-39. I have enlarged and shrunk it! It will be the same, but different.