4-Sided Fringe Plaid Baby Blanket
The above measurments are w/o the 5" fringe on all sides. This is woven and tied while still on the loom. When the blanket comes off the loom you only need to tie off the fringe attached to the front tie on beam. I also wove a small car blanket on the remanding warp. Measurments to come. Blanket was threaded 2 threads per dent based on 15 epi (so 30 threads per 1). Worked best to wind double. I doubled the height of the block to make them larger. Make sue you have a strong thread to wrap your fringe around. I used a shoe lace tied to back and front beams. This is a Yarn Barn of Kansas pattern.
Fibanacco Plaid
I used the same colors in the warp and weft, but used slightly different colors in Weavit - to show the pattern better.
Fibanacci Plaid
Color changes based on Fibanacci secquence:1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55. for a total repleat of 143.Threading repeat is 16, and 16 * 9 = 144. This requires the last element of the Fimanacci sequence to be 56 instead of 55 - a small "cheat."Width is therefore multiples of 144, or 144, 288. 432, 576, 720, etc.
Lily Sugar&Cream Baby Blanket
This blanket uses Lily Sugar & Cream crochet yarn, woven from 12 donated skeins in a variety of colors. Each 2.5 oz skein holds 120 yards. It was quite challenging to come up with a pleasing pattern with the colors I was given. Two of my guildmates supplemented from their stash to help make sure I didn't run out. I tried to minimize the bright red. It didn't seem to fit with the other muted colors, but works nicely in a "limited" engagement. The final crib blanket should be 36" x 52", sett at 8 epi in plain weave, with a 15% take-up and shrinkage allowance. It will be donated with a handmade toy to a local organization that serves needy families.
Plaid baby blanket
This was my first project ever. I made a major mistake in it - I missed a yellow stripe totally when I warped it. I didn't notice that error for several weeks, and overall, I was pretty happy with this.
Topaz, Gold, Marigold Plaid
My first attempt at a plaid. Just experimenting to see how the colors relate to one another and how they mix.
Length of warp on loom includes a 10 inche sample swatch.
Plaid Dishcloths
Originally, I wanted to experiment with plaid patterns. I took random amounts of leftover cotton yarns I had and made three repetitions in the warp. The idea was to do the same in the weft. And I did, for the first two cloths. The changing of colours every two to sixteen picks was excrutiating, especially since I had only learned to weave the day before. And I wasn't able to beat the same PPI as EPI so it turned out to be a bit longer per pattern repition. I only did two repitions in the weft, as opposed to three in the warp. Needless to say the plaid cloths were short and fat. The other four were done in basically a solid weft. I did a strip of white at the beginning and end of each cloth because there was white on the outside edges, too. But my attempt to compensate for the tension on the loom did not work out so well. Though I had measured them out to be 12x12. They really turned out to be 12x11. But! A success for a first real project nonetheless as long as they clean my dishes.
The one that got away
My second foray into plaid. I thought it came out quite well, except that I carried the colors up the right edge, rather than having lots of ends to clip later, and it doesn't look very good. I haven't decided quite how to fix it--crochet, needle. The person it was intended for got a different one.
Best in (this year's) show
I think this one came out best. 3 4-end vertical pink stripes. The yarn was from Tuesday Morning, random skeins that I bought up because they were real fiber and relatively cheap, without a plan to use them.The edges didn't have the problem with carrying the color because I started each of the pink stripes independently and buried the ends in the bright pink cross square. Thanks to the model for wearing it with a coordinating sweater and turtleneck.
