Happy New Year fellow weavers!  I was planning on working on my color challenge once I finished the warp on my Glimåkra but great family news - a cousin is expecting twins in the spring, so baby blankets just took priority.   I have never woven a baby blanket and I have seen so many beauties out there, I am not sure where to start.  I did order Tom Knisley's blanket book yesterday and it should be here by the end of the week.  Hopefully I will find inspiration,  finish up the blankets  and knock out the color challenge.  At least, that is the tentative game plan.

Comments

Sun, 01/01/2017 - 17:09

Joanne Hall

I made baby blankets from Bockens 8/2 cotton.  I put colors in the warp and tabby weft and used doubled white 8/2 for the pattern weft.  It was fun to weave and looks nice.   I picked a very simple overshot, but crackle, summer and winter or any pattern with a short float would work. 

The Bockens is Egyptian cotton, so it is made with the long cotton fibers.  That means that it will not pill after a lot of washing. 

Joanne

Sun, 01/01/2017 - 18:49

Queezle

Joanne, I bet those are beautiful blankets! 

For this color challenge, finding yarns that match my assigned colors has been challenging.  But I have not really looked at Bockens - what a great idea.

Sun, 01/01/2017 - 23:07

Katelister

  I would love to try Bockens cotton.......where will I find it? I'm located in Portland, Oregon. 

Mon, 01/02/2017 - 00:30

Queezle

The places I know are Vavstuga, Glimakra USA, and Eugene Textile Center; eugene is closest, maybe you could even visit the store to select colors in person (color me green with envy).  Two hours each way?

Mon, 01/02/2017 - 01:39

Joanne Hall

Write to Sarah:

[email protected]

Ask her when they will be back at work and what the hours are.  They have all the colors of all their threads and yarns in stock and you can see them.

Joanne

Mon, 01/02/2017 - 03:53

SusanBH

Lone Star Loom Room also carries Bockens cotton.

 

Mon, 01/02/2017 - 20:48

kerstinfroberg

are so named because the "bock" ("buck", I guess?) is the county symbol of Hälsingland (a Swe county) - try http://holma.se/ for the ... "original"(?).

(it *might* be that importing even smallish amounts is ok, cost-wise)