PineTrees and Telephone Poles
The question was asked, can you do a pine tree border for this profile? The best I could come up with is this version that I called PineTrees and Telephone Poles. It amkes a great towel border in Summer and winter.
Bath Mat
I made two of these, one for my step mother, and the other just as an extra. I used the 8 shaft pattern book compiled by Handwoven magazine for the draft.
baby blanket Ashlyn Yarrow Inouye
Ashlyn Yarrow Inouye is my oldest grandchild and recently celebrated her fifth birthday. Her middle name is a family name on Chandra's side and also the name of a flower and the name of a river in Scotland. This "yarrow blanket" was popular when Ashlyn was little. Yarrow is not an easy flower to weave! I studied drawings and photographs and wove individual florets and whole plants with flower heads. I hope it helps her to learn about flowers. The structure is turned summer and winter. For a baby blanket, both sides need to be functional.
baby blanket Gregory Fox Inouye
Baby blanket for Gregory Fox Inouye. Red foxes on one face, white (Artic) foxes on reverse. Blanket finished in late October. Machine wash and dry, of course. Turned summer and winter.
baby blanket Cedric McLean Inouye
Inouye is a Japanese name written with two characters. Japanese is written in vertical bands. The bamboo motifs come from our Japanese crest. Both Fox and McLean are family names in the twins' mother's family. Gregory is my maiden name. My younger son, Kevin, and his wife, Chandra, studied Japanese in college and spent some time in Japan. The boys are fraternal twins, the first in my family as far as I know, but Chandra's mother's family includes twins. The weave structure is turned summer and winter. The fox and Inouye blankets were woven on the same warp, roughly 48" wide on a 60" loom with a flyshuttle.
Ten Year Towels
Woodstock Weavers Guild Challenge 2007: Tenth anniversary of the guild, do something based on the number ten.
These towels are woven from a name draft on the word "tenyears", using a cotton flake warp and handspun cotton weft in blues and pinks. The finished size is about 15x23 inches for each towel. The warp was 3 yards plus allowance for loom waste and made four towels.
I've been using these in my kitchen for two years and they are still holding up well, in spite of the handspun weft. Cotton flake is very absorbent, moreso than the usual 10/2 or 8/2 cottons used for towels.
09 baby blankets
Warped for 3 blankets, 40" x 50" on loom, plus plain weave hem.
1) ground weft: Tangerine; pattern weft: black 900 ypp cotton chenille
2) ground weft: Tonal Red; pattern weft: beige 900 ypp cotton chenille
3) ground weft: blue/purple; pattern weft: red cotton chenille
baby blanket Cedric McLean Inouye
Inouye is a Japanese name written with two characters. Japanese is written in vertical bands. The bamboo motifs come from our Japanese crest. Both Fox and McLean are family names in the twins' mother's family. Gregory is my maiden name. My younger son, Kevin, and his wife, Chandra, studied Japanese in college and spent some time in Japan. The boys are fraternal twins, the first in my family as far as I know, but Chandra's mother's family includes twins. The weave structure is turned summer and winter. The fox and Inouye blankets were woven on the same warp, roughly 48" wide on a 60" loom with a flyshuttle.
Ten Years
Woodstock Weavers Guild Challenge 2007: For the tenth anniversary of the guild, do something on a theme of "ten".
This is a name draft based on the word "tenyears" that was then converted into summer and winter. I used it to weave cotton towels using a natural cotton flake warp and handspun blue and pink cotton weft.
