HOT! Off the Loom

This is an informal Show & Tell. Guild members are invited to share a photo of a recent project. Send a good quality .jpg along with a caption describing your creation to Pattie Lamb at lambweaves@yahoo.com

The top side of the mug mats

The under side of the mug mats

Patti Kilpatrick wove mug mats in doubleweave overshot. These were all woven in the Sun, Moon, and Stars Pattern with a 5/2 pearl cotton warp. She got a great variety of colors for her mats by choosing different weft colors for the front and back of the mats.

Sally Kahler will be weaving baby blankets for each of her four new granchildren this spring. The first one is pictured here on the left.

The scarf shown on the right was woven on a painted warp and will be auctioned off at Golf for the Pink in May.

Variations on M and O Towels from "Simple Weaves". A 4 harness weave, woven on a cottolin warp with linen and cottolin wefts.
-- Pattie Lamb

Jackie Heller’s 2017 Weaver’s Challenge. The 4 criteria she drew were:

Doubleweave
Mostly red
Apply fringe
Cotton

The runner was woven with red and gold 5/2 and 6/2 cotton, sett at 36epi. She wove it in Doubleweave Overshot, adapted from the Berea Sunflower overshot pattern in Marguerite Davison’s book.

Donna Eash, a beginning weaver, wove this beautiful, warm and snuggly scarf. She says: "here is the first Cricket Loom finished product. Woven from Scrap Exchange finds."

This runner is based on the Belle Creole bed scarf in the Jan/Feb 2015 issue of Handwoven Magazine & inspired by the brightly colored textiles I’ve seen from Mexico, thanks to Mary Anne Kluger. I had the bright idea to go crazy with color, which was completely outside my comfort zone. While it was on the loom, I kept questioning my bright idea. When I finally finished it, I was glad I tried something different & am very pleased with it. 10/2 mercerized cotton (UKI dark Sierra) was used for the ground cloth & I doubled the 10/2 for the pattern.
-Jane Patterson

Tencel Shawl woven by Sue Taube. She used 5 different color ways of Just Our Yarn (JOY) 10/2 tencel in the warp, threaded in the “Italian manner” of crackle weave (polychrome crackle weave). Weft was 3 different JOY tencel yarns, one was 10/2 & the other two were 20/2, all different color ways, kept in the same order for the entire shawl.

Free form weavings by Christy Westmoreland, created on her Saori loom with a variety of materials.

“Autumn Harvest”, 23" x 60", a variety of yarn, photo strips, leather, ribbon, feather, crepe myrtle bark and cotton ball twigs. I began this weaving in Dawn Hummer's Saori Weaving class at the end of September.

"The Brilliance of Autumn", 32" x 43", a variety of yarns, scarf, dyed bamboo, branches and silk plant. The orange circle in the branches is a pumpkin.

"Grounded", 24" x 32", a variety of yarn, roping and cording with dried weeping willow branches wound into circles.

Saori Weaving from Dawn Hummer Workshop, woven by Jackie Heller

Photo Inspiration for a Shawl
The photo of ropes and buoys was taken 3 years ago when my husband and I did a motorcycle trip in Nova Scotia. I just likes the shapes and colors. So I used the picture as inspiration for dyeing a tencel warp in Mary Kircher's studio class a few weeks ago. The warp became a turned twill shawl with the help of some stripes of solid tencel in complimentary colors of shale gray, grey blue, greyed teal and sienna.

The bookmarks and cards are overshot 10/2 perle cotton warp, 5/2 perle cotton weft. These are set at 30 EPI. The bookmark pattern is Valley Forge Dogwood. The greeting card pattern is Ancient Rose. Both patterns are from Davidson' s Handweaver's Pattern Book. These will be donated for sale to the Burwell House in Hillsborough. - Patrice Walker

Wabi Sabi.....

I was intrigued by Dawn Hummer's presentation about SAORI weaving. And so, I decided to give it a try using a Cricket loom. Used 3/2 pearl cotton for the warp and then experimented with assorted fibers: cotton, linen, silk, nylon mesh - then tried adding beads, knots, loops, etc. The process was exhilarating and the end product makes me smile.

For the "loopy blue" piece I used 3/2 pearl cotton for warp, assorted fibers for weft loops and an additional linen thread that was worked close to the selvedge. While it’s not quite as expressive as the green piece, I do love the randomness of the loops.
My life, my work, my world - a little randomness keeps it interesting.

--Debbie Suchoff

"Puddles at Sunset"
Lots of circles and ovals created by Turned Taquete in a tencel and silk scarf woven by Pattie Lamb

Jean Johnson

Deflected doubleweave scarf woven in Valley 8/2 tencel (shale and black) and Jaggerspun 18/2 superfine merino (vanilla). Elisabeth Hill workshop, June 2017.

Birches, by Jackie Heller
Size mounted is 20 x 20"
Combination of wet and dry-needle felting. Machine stitched along the trees.
She says " it 3 years ago in CT and finally finished it!"

A mixed warp linen table runner, woven by Pattie Lamb. The warp a mixture of 16/1, 16/2 and 8/1 tow line in 4 colors. The structure is a point twill threading woven in an M&W treadling.

Pattie Lamb, Janice Kohl, and Jane Patterson have been weaving "More Than Pink" cotton and linen scarves for the Warpsters upcoming Race for the Cure event on May 6th. The Lam-Moore family mascots, Oswald, Jr. and Esmerelda will join us on our walk.

From Diane Byrne a tapestry collage: "This small tapestry was an experiment with different textures, using wool and ribbons as weft. The Contemporary Textiles study group looked at collages in February, and I was inspired by one of the collage artists to combine my tapestry with papers, painted gingko leaves, petrified wood, and a colorful postage stamp that I had on hand."

On the left, from Diane Byrne: "This Boro-inspired collage combines a small tapestry with torn Japanese papers, gingko leaves, and a tiny hummingbird button. I tore the edges of the paper to represent a Japanese technique known as Boro. Boro means "ragged" and refers to fabrics once used to patch garments of fishermen and peasants. (The Contemporary Textiles study group also studied Boro in February)."

Wall hanging woven by Kelli Crispin for the 2016 Weaver’s Challenge. Her challenge: bright colors, hand-dyed yarn, 2 weaves, finish with beads. Her piece: wool warp, commercially dyed wool/mohair weft and edging cords, hand-dyed cotton weft, plain weave and diamond twill, Jasper and glass beads, 17" x 24"

Scarf woven by Janice Kohl. She says “This is one of my handpainted warps from that workshop and my new scarf hot off the loom. It is 8/2 bamboo for the warp set at 36 epi. Weft is 16/2 bamboo in a light gold color called honey. Scarf is woven in a simple 2/2 twill. I can't wait for another dye workshop.”

5 mats woven by Sharon Grubb. She says” I followed the pattern for "Little Rep Gems" by Susan E. Horton in the May/June 2014 Handwoven, pp. 42-43. I substituted my own color scheme and improvised the treadling for some of the mats.”