Secret Agent Towel #1
December 6th, 2005 at 9:31 pm (weaving)
I have woven two repeats on my Secret Agent towel #1. Here’s a closeup of the cloth:
The front part is a version of plain weave. It it interesting to watch what threads lift when I raise the ‘plain weave’ sheds. It makes strips of blue and green, so you get a speckled type of solid. The strongest color is the one in the weft in that area.
I’m having a hard time doing the pattern; I have to switch between two shuttles, one for each color. I don’t have a loom bench, or anywhere to set things except on the cloth already woven. I’m having troubles always catching the edge thread (selvedge thread?). Sometimes I need to go first color over the second,and other times I need to do it the other way around.
Another problem is that I did the repeat backwards. I started at the bottom of the treadling diagram and worked my way up, instead of reading top down. Too much working with knitting charts lately I suppose. I’m just going to continue weaving it ‘backwards’. You can’t really tell the difference one way or another.
judy said,
December 27th, 2005 at 7:50 pm
I love the colors! It shouldn’t make any difference if you do the graph backwards.