This was the first large, wool doubleweave project I've done so it was planned as a test blanket and will live on my bed. After life got out of the way and I finished weaving it, I learned a lot and was relatively happy with the results.
I got surprisingly good sheds and the mirror on the shuttle race showed me when the shed was clear, so I didn't have too many problems with sticky thread errors. What did cause a problem was that no matter how well I thought I was concentrating and keeping track of where I was, I still had treadling errors in the bottom layer. How do you prevent this?
After washing the fold seemed mostly invisible! Another surprise. On the other hand, the selvedges were too loose and looked like a badly crocheted edging after washing. I tried to pull in more on that side while weaving, but I kept forgetting.
Things I want to try next time: a "real" temple (my home made ones kept sliding off). Double the sett on the selvedges for 4 ends in each layer. Use a 2/2 twill so I don't end up with horizontal borders on one side and vertical borders on the other.
I liked the borders being different on the two sides. You could extend the idea and have two very different sets of stripings - a two-fer-one look for the blanket depending on which side is up.
Laurie Autio
