Well, about a year late, I'm finally trying to get around to weaving a Summer and Winter pattern. I'm sing 20/2 yarn for both the background and pattern, in white for the background and various colors for the pattern. I've got Donna Sullivan's book Summer and Winter, A Weave for all Seasons. I'm used to thinking of S & W as having alternate tabby and pattern picks, but on page 30 in the book, at the top, there is a treddling that uses two tabby picks alternated with two pattern picks. This would save a lot of shuttle changes, and I could "station" one shuttle at each side of the warp, weave two picks and then change shuttles, weave 2, etc., etc. It seems like it would be pretty easy to keep my place, and according to the book, this produces a stronger pattern color.
But when I put this scheme into my weaving software, it sort of looks like it will create fine stripes in the warp. Since I'm using 20/2, that might be OK, but I'm wondering if anyone out there has tried this? Do you end up with something that looks like stripes, or does it look OK?
Since the change is in the treddling, not the threading, I can always switch back if it doesn't work. . . . .