It's December! Are you weaving for the holidays? Are you dressing your loom for the holidays? Share what's on your loom!

I just finished some gamp work from Season 4! I'd love to send you some pics of results, which would include mistake(s) and moments of "aha!". Next will be to put some of that work into an exchange project involving the weaving of a three-ring binder cover. If you could kindly share with me the email address of the school, I'd love to send you the photos of the gamps. Thank you for your patience and good will, Ginette. I look forward to see/read about what other weavers are doing.

I have really been struggling to use the colors and weave the Doubleweave lessons, so I jumped the fence and got Jennifer Moore's book, which is no Jane Stafford, but here's a start in my understanding. I might put Barbara's draft in Handweaving dot net and try some colors I can live with so I can use Jane's Season 8 lessons.
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The DDW gampkins in lesson 9.4 inspired me to choose 1 threading to make dish towels. The tessellation of the images is fun to weave and fun to see off of the loom.

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This month has been difficult already and it's only the 5th. However Jane's message with regards to the 10th Season dropped into my inbox and picked me up no end.
My weaving projects have had a tendency to be slow of late. This time I am in the middle of a long drawn out process of an over ambitious project. It has taken months for me to get the darn thing warped up. Almost there and I am not going to spill the beans until I can prove to myself that I can do it!
But - to get back to the Season 10 preview - it led me to think about a knee rug that I did for a friend in Honeycomb. She wanted something textured and chunky. I modified a honeycomb design and I wanted to refresh my mind as it had been several years ago.
Darned if I could remember what I had done and this sent me into a flurry of trying to find notes, etc to remind me. Alas my record keeping was woeful and I couldn't find any reference at all.
I sat down with the knee rug and worked out the pattern by reading the cloth as Jane suggests (after all I had woven the darn thing, I should be able to read it!). Just when I had finished, I remembered where the inspiration had come from. Typical.
So I am supplying a 'proof of life' photo to show that I am not crazy. The knee throw does exist even though the paperwork came years later!!

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First four towels off of my loom. Need two of them this weekend so I used Jane's method of glue/wooden stick/more glue to secure the unwoven portion of my warp.
This is Janes Undulating twill kit, with some colors from my stash for the multi color version (my favorite):

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Got the Peppermint Tea Towels done and for all the warping issues I had with them, they turned out ok!

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Adventures in Alpine Alpaca!

My dad can’t wear wool and is a Blue Jays fan so I made him a blue variation for Christmas and I’m pretty thrilled with how it turned out!
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And then I made less blue variation for me. 😁
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I had so much fun weaving these, got them done in time to get wrapped, with a few days to spare 🤣! I put a shorter warp on for 6 towels (Season 5 Turned Twill episode) and tried to match the colours using cones from my stash. It was so hard to choose which side to hem, honestly, either sides would work great. It was a blast to do these. The colours are out of my comfort zone and absolutely grew on me!

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Back of the towels
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I challenged myself to color and weave, Strickler 381-4. 8 Harness, 20epi, 24 picks in the pattern. Fibonacci 3-5-8-5-3 in the warp sequences.

I used Tim's treadle reducer to reduce the tie up to 10 treadles. It sure required a bit of patience, as I made lots of mistakes in the threading.
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I re-inserted the lease sticks and pulled out 8 inches of warp to re-thread properly.
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