My sister requested a set of placemats in light green and yellow, so I designed the basic pattern in excel, and wound the warp combining many of the lovely colors of 10/2 cotton from lunatic fringe. I'm using a worsted weight mercerized cotton for the thick weft. I found it at my local yarn store for $5 a hank and I think each hank will do 2 placemats (waiting on finishing my sample to find out PPI). This is my first warp-dominant project on the big loom. It's kind of a pain because I keep getting floating shafts. Another reason I need a countermarche loom...
I ended up dealing with the sticky shafts by developing a rhythm that included smacking the top of the shafts before each pick. The smack would send any errant shafts downward and I could continue on. It turned out that each hank of worsted weight mercerized cotton (100 grams) was enough for 3 placemats.
I had a bit of warp left at the end so I wove off a 9" piece in roughly the same pattern. It needs a little bit of crafting, but I believe it will become a kindle cover.
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