White on White Snowflakes

In honor of the snow we had today.... just a few very large flakes...... I will share my white on white snowflake twill runner. It was going to be a kitchen towel, but looked like a runner to me. So I added some crochet filet on the ends and have called it done!

This project went very fast. I can't think of any one part that I didn't mind doing. The warp was a white while the weft was more a cream-white color. I used the weft to crochet the edges.

The other runner (purple) is still being hemmed. I just might add a crochet edge to it too?!?

New Snow

I was able to fit one 'white' towel on the end of this warp. I just did a quick up and down on the treadles of this snowflake twill threading.

The final test will be when I get this all washed and ironed. Maybe I will add a crochet edge to the runner or beads.? ? Gonna let it sit a day or few and see what happens.

Purple Snow

I am sure you have heard or talked about different colors of snow.... well..... I have one long (100 inches) snowflake table runner and I am calling it Purple Snow!

My table is 72 inches long, so I will have a nice drape over on the long end edges. The table is 28 inches wide but the runner is only 20 inches wide. So it isn't a table cloth, but more of a long table runner.

I am working on a couple of towels at the end of this warp.... I have one almost done and will see if I can squeeze out another.

Heddle Eye

The next phrase of this advancing twill adventure continues. I have begun to thread the heddles. This may take a day or two, or three.

It is interesting to me that at first glance this yarn is smooth, but get close up and it's fuzzy. My heddles are showing their age, but since they work just fine, I will keep them as is. 

Weaving Prep Work for Snowflake Twill

So I finally finished the warping and now I have the threads pulled through the reed. I am using 8/2 cotton sett at 18 epi. I have dented 1-2-1-2 in my 12 dent reed.

Looks like I need to replace my ruler on my shuttle race. 

Another thing I need to do before I can throw that first pick is to count out my heddles and get them balanced across my heddle frame. My Macomber loom has hanging heddle frames, so it is important to get a balance on it. 

I have started counting out the heddles I will need for this project. Here I am using a paper clip to hold back the heddles not needed. 

New Project - Advancing Twill

I have never tried to weave a snowflake draft (advancing twill). I was wanting something to weave for my long kitchen table, to use some 8/2 cotton, and weave white on white. This project just might fit the bill. I found the draft in the Nov/Dec 2012 Handwoven magazine. The article is by Lyn Lucas and seems to be very straight forward and understandable. Or at least to "my" little gray cells.

I have just started winding my warp. Here I am showing you how I count on my warping board. When I get 50 ends, I snug them with a looper. This is showing I have 100 ends wound. A group of 50 ends and the other five groups spaced out.  (I am not at the beginning where my cross is, but at the end peg.) I learned this little trick from Jeff the Warpped Weaver!

Oh, and here is the photo in the magazine. I am going to use 8/2 cotton in warp and weft. No sparkling, just using up this 7 lb pound cone of 8/2 cotton I bought last year. I have a couple of other project going, so this may be a 'slow cloth' kind of project, or I might just get in gear and finish next week. Who knows? I weave just for fun!