Weaver Rose at it again!

I have been working on turning the Weaver Rose draft #10 he calls "The American Beauty" or "White House" into a wearable project. It's a bit different from your traditional overshot where blocks share threads. But it's overshot according to the book: The Weaving Roses of Rhode Island.

I have started putting it on the loom.

2	4	6
			2	4	6	2	4
1	3	5	1	3	5
						1	3		Weaver Rose would read this from left to right
									He is showing the placement of the threads and in what order
										he wants them to be in.
This is what I think he is telling me. This is how I would record it. I will record it right to left.
		4		4		4					4	4		I am showing you the first six threads.
										3	3			His way would save paper!
			2		2		2		2	2
									1			1

Library Books

You just never know what you might find. I went to my local library book sale and found these books.

                       How about some March 1974 suggested prices for Leclerc Looms.
The Mira:
36B with wire heddles $307, or the 36A with steel heddles $325
The Nilus:
36-4B $370, 4 harness, wire heddles or 36-4B with steel heddles $$386

I sure do like the price of reeds. A 36" one was only $8.25!!!!!!

Thinking Overshot

Ya know....... I have been thinking about this Weaver Rose No. 10 draft and am wondering what it would look like using two colors. I think I would want to use red and blue, but showing it in red and black so it will show up better on screen. I am changing colors at each block change. What do you think? I think it gives it a more complicated look.

Working on Projects - Handwork

Going to crochet an edge on this lap robe. I put a filet edge on the first blanket, this one I am going for a more of a big ruffled effect. Here I am showing you the set-up row.

My main objective with this project was to see if I could weave a length of overshot yardage and then put two panels together. That worked fine, but it wasn't going to be wide enough for a full size bed. So I cut it in two and ended up with two lap robes. I guess they could be called baby blankets, but I might be needing a lap robe some time soon...so lap robes they are! And since I ended up with two, I can put them in 'the closet' for me and DH.

I am sure some of you have forgotten, but I have a 'closet' where I put different things I make for gift giving in the future. Sometimes, things stay in there for years and some times, they are hardly dry before I give them away.

These lab robes were woven with 10/2 cotton as warp and tabby with an acrylic green weft. I found this green at a flea market. It looks like wool, but is acrylic. I think it might have been intended for a knitting machine. It only had on the label that it was 100% acrylic. The size is like Harrisville Shetland wool. The great thing is that it washable. I am sure when I use it, I will be spilling my coffee and muffin on it -so being washable is a good thing!

DH= dear husband

More Out Of Pocket-ness

One of my weaving guilds has been studying the drafts of Weaver Rose of Rhode Island. He has one labeled No. 10. Here is what I 'think' he had in mind. I have expanded the given threading, (I have some errors). It will need some tweeking. I am showing the treadling as drawn-in or 'tromp as writ'.

Now wouldn't this make a nice pillow...maybe in two colors.... hummmmmm, more thinking to do!

Out of pocket

Out of pocket.
This is just some overshot blog candy, and a very dusty spinning wheel. I may be away from my loom, but I am thinking about my ticking. I need to get that on the loom before the snow flyers.

Ticking is a three shaft twill. I was told by Pam Howard at J C Campbell Folkschool, that ticking needed to be woven tight enough for a feather not to be able to poke through.

Working on Projects - Overshot

Since I am trying to get some project completed,  I thought I would go ahead and sew this pillow top into a "pillow". I have had this pillow topper finished for - maybe - a couple of years. Well, now it has become what it's always wanted to be: 'a pillow'!!!

I believe this was when I was doing some creative overshot. I would take a traditional overshot draft and treadle it with a different set of treadlings instead of just treading 'tromp as writ'. Came up with some really great designs on one threading.


Even though I am trying to learn everything I can about single two-tie, my first love is overshot.