So, I wove two scarves from Season 7 episode 3 Monk's Belt with Color and Weave. I used 8/2 for the warp and Zephyr for the weft. I used Jane's method of measuring two separate warps, a light and a dark and combining them as I set up my table loom....OMGosh this method is genius !! So easy and fast...I'm a convert.

The first scarf, I wove with basically the dark color Zephyr as the weft (Mahogany) with the zingers in the cream color. I wove this with the "Scarf #1" Monk's Belt treadling... tabby, other tabby, A,A repeat 10x....tabby, other tabby, B,B repeat 10x.

The second scarf, I wove with Huck treadling...tabby, float, tabby, float, tabby, other tabby. I used the lighter tan color of Zephyr for the whole scarf except for the "other tabby" picks which were using the Mahogany colors, and a Mahogany section dividing the Huck 10 repeat sections. One section was 10 repeats using block A, and the next section was 10 repeats using block B.

After taking off the loom, the dimensions of the scarf with Monk's Belt treadling was 73x15 7/8...after wet finishing this measured 69 x 9 1/4 inches.

The Huck treadling scarf before finishing was 50 x 15 1/4 and after was 47 x 10 1/2 inches.

I ran out of warp and thus the second scarf was much shorter.

I wanted the finished scarves to be thicker, warmer and more sturdy so I ran them through the delicate cycle in the washer....yikes they shrank a lot, so just hung them to dry.

The Monk's Belt shrunk at a higher percentage in width than did the Huck...interesting.

They are both very soft and will be great for colder temps.

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Looks great, Cheryl! I can’t wait to try the two warps method. I’m ready with my two sets of helping hands, too!😂🥰

Looks good, Cheryl. I like the effect of both of them. I am hooked on the 2 warps with 2 sets of lease sticks method. So easy.

More, Season 7, Alternative Threading. Light, light, light, dark
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Playing around with Season 7, Alternative threading. This towel is woven with a lighter grey weft.

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Thanks Beth, I used the two warps method again for the current lesson S7 E7. The color changes occur must less frequently and it would have been easier to just do them while measuring and winding the warp on the reel. Note to self: pay attention to the number of color changes before deciding to to make one warp or two LOL.

We never stop learning, Cheryl.

So, I am weaving the current Summer and Winter placemats and just started #3. Giving others a heads up. Even though the instructions say to use the hem sequence on page 3 ... which outlines 8 repeats of block A. For the pairs treadling there are twice the number of picks as compared to both Singles and Dukagang...so I only needed 4 repeats of block A in the hem.

Eagle eye. 😉🥰

Hi lovely people!

I thought I'd share some of my Turned Taquete projects with you. My third project inspired by Parrot was woven back in October 2020. It was so exciting to see my project make a wee appearance in this episode. It was a great stash-busting project for all the random bits of blues in my stash. Here's one of the towels from that project:

Back in June, I put another turned taquete warp on my loom, this time inspired by the warp I designed for my Halvdräll project, which you may have seen on Ravelry. The warp was designed using Fibonacci numbers for the stripes and chunky dividers:

This is the profile draft based on those numbers:

This is the first TAW-ish towel from that warp (which I kept for myself because I love it so much)

I wanted to use the same design for my next TT project, so I chose two colours for each stripe in the warp and here's the numbers and profile for that one:

8/2 cotton warp and weft, sett at 100/10 (approx. 25 EPI). 2/dent in 50/10 reed.

For each towel, I designed a repetitive sequence of stripes using random Fibonacci numbers and multiplying the number by 4 picks (because I didn't fancy doing single pick stripes). For example, Fibonacci 8 became 32 picks, 2 became 8 picks, etc. My challenge to myself was to make the weft symmetrical from the centre outward, just like the warp. Some sequences were narrow stripes, some were chunkier stripes. For example, for this one I wove:

Block A - Navy - 12 picks
Block B - Turquoise - 12 picks
Block A - Medium Blue - 32 picks
Block B - Lime - 8 picks
Block A - Royal - 32 picks
Reverse back to start
Repeat 5 times

I had a lot of fun taking everything Jane has taught us about colour & design and overlaying it on top of one of my favourite weave structures.

Here are the other towels from this warp:

Thanks for reading :)

Wow! These are amazing.

Outstanding! I can't get my head round your profile.

Gorgeous, David!

Thank you kindly :)

David, these are simply stunning !!