Many of our courses feature projects to help you explore new techniques and skills. You can find all the patterns for these projects here, complete with details about the supplies and equipment needed to make each project.
Make the most of a compact 4-shaft loom with a narrower weaving width by weaving a double-width blanket! Use a wool and silk blend yarn to create a beautiful cloth with softness, sheen, and drape in a simple plain weave. Create your own colour combo for this blanket.
Make the most of a compact 4-shaft loom with a narrower weaving width by weaving a double-width blanket! Use a wool and silk blend yarn to create a beautiful cloth with softness, sheen, and drape in a simple plain weave. Create your own colour combo for this blanket.
For this project we’ll explore pick-up sticks and learn how to use warp and weft floats on their own and in combination. We’ll make five samples that would make lovely table squares. Then you can choose a structure you have woven and expand it into a table runner on a second wider warp.
Trimmed in Twill is originally our 2020 Advent Shawl pattern. You can use any combination of 12 fingering-weight yarns and colours, with a minimum of
A gamp is a sampler, a weaver’s way of using a single warp to test out multiple ideas. It could be a colour gamp or a weave structure gamp or in this case a gamp that explores colour patterns. Colour and Weave is not a weave structure but rather a pattern, in the sense that it is simply plain weave with the addition of colour effects through alternating light and dark threads.
The first warp uses an easy all over houndstooth colour sequence leaving areas of solid yellow and white just like you would have in a fried egg and the second shows you how to use just a bit of striping to create a colour and weave highlight in the corner of your towels with a more muted scrambled egg palette where buttery and deep yellow combine. Mix and match and make them your own.
The M & W placemats weaving pattern is a twill quick to weave up in 3/2 cotton. Weave matching placemats or weave one long table runner.
In The Intentional Weaver course with Laura Fry, we learned how to beam a warp using a trapeze and this is the project we put on the loom. It’s a 5-yard / 4.6 m long 3/2 cotton warp that we threaded on 8 shafts in a “wall of troy” threading pattern. This pattern can also be threaded on 4 shafts, so both drafts are included here. Changing the treadling will produce new patterns.
Inspired by a rosepath pattern found in a vintage Swedish book of weaving designs. The sampler has a variety of motifs commonly found in krokbragd weaving. They are arranged in colorful bands with a broader field in the middle of the design.
Clasped weft project. Inspired by the characteristic warm pinks of spring cherry blossoms, this long, drapey silk-merino scarf is perfect for shoulder seasons where you want to wrap a soft cloth many times to keep out the cold.
Clasped warp project. Inspired by the characteristic warm pinks of spring cherry blossoms, this silk-merino cowl is perfect for shoulder seasons. Combining warp interlocking and plain-weave it’s a great project to highlight the power of the rigid heddle loom. Sewing the ends together creates an easy to wear cowl.
In the pattern, Felicia makes a series of twill blankets, but you could use the same idea and weave pillows, or a table runner, or a scarf.
Handwoven Twill Gamp Pattern. The first project in this workshop will be weaving a twill gamp, which is a way for us to experiment with many different variations of twill.
Handwoven Scarf Pattern. Weave different houndstooth scarf patterns using a rigid heddle loom, 4-shaft, or 8-shaft loom.
Handwoven Scarf Pattern. Using gradient hand-dyed sock blanks as the main ingredient, we’re exploring optical colour mixing, drape, and texture through a series of handwoven scarves.
Handwoven Scarf Pattern. Using gradient hand-dyed sock blanks as the main ingredient, we’re exploring optical colour mixing, drape, and texture through a series of handwoven scarves.
Handwoven Towel Pattern. Create a simple gradient in the warp by using a combination of six colours in the warp. Then weave with a rainbow of weft hues to create six completely different looks to your kitchen towels.
Handwoven Shawl Pattern. Weave a 15-hue colour gamp using sock yarn in plain weave. Enjoy the interactions of colour between these fifteen hues of a spectrum and weave your own colour gamp shawl. Work with gradient mini-skein sets or limit your colour selections to just analogous colours. The options are infinite!
Handwoven Shawl Pattern. Wrap yourself in a warm, toasty hug of bluefaced leicester wool and silk. This elegant and substantial handwoven shawl hangs beautifully around the shoulders with softness and drape. The colours blend to produce an almost iridescent effect.
Plain weave and twill sampler on a 4-shaft loom. Explore the incredible variety of textures, designs, and colour patterns that are possible with just four shafts and four colours! Here we use a DK weight yarn to play with plain weave, simple twills, and basketweave.
Weave a beautifully soft and simple scarf that can be customized through colour. Choose a hand-dyed or handpainted sock yarn for the warp and create your cloth with a variety of colours in the weft to enjoy the colour interactions.
Weave a beautifully elegant and silky scarf that can be customized through colour. Choose a range of hand-dyed semi-solid sock yarns for the warp and bring them all together with a single hand-dyed lace yarn.
