Andean Pebble Weave

Here is my first andean pebble weave band.
I used no 10 mercerized cotton dmc. I feel that it was a bit thin to show up the beautiful patterns.
These are designs from Lavern's 1st book .
I really feel I could have done better and since then I understand things alot clearer since I did this first band.
I am happy enough though even though they are not perfect. Dropped warps due to not separating sheds properly , selvages uneven,  and warps sometimes twisted. These are the errors that I have noticed.
Never Mind next one will be so much better.

These are all 8 Revolution patterns out of Lavern's monograph first book.

Thanks for looking.

Warp faced table runner -Part 1.

I want to document this as I go along, so if I decided to do another I won't have to do all that thinking and researching again.

Well my daughters wedding is getting really close now, a beautiful march wedding in Fiji.
I asked her if she would like me to make the table runner for the wedding reception .
Its one of the biggest things I have attempted to date with weaving but I just love the challenge.
So of course I had to modify a stand that my hubby had made years ago for a large cross stitch that I had done and decided to make a sort of backstrap, mapuche, tapestry type loom to put on it.
I knew what I wanted I just had to get back out into the shed and start woodworking again .

Here is what I came up with

 I am pretty happy that it turned out so well.
The extra sticks are for the cross when I am warping up. I thought I may as well just warp it on the loom itself.
 I used a dovetail warp as I didn't want any sort of fringe on it. I am thiniking that I would like to maybe do some type of tubular edge on it when I am finished but once again I have never tried that before, but I will give it a go.

I want the size to be about 2 metres or a little longer because the island hasn't sent us table measurements yet , so a wild guess.

The warp is on below and I am making continuous string heddles for one of the sheds.
My design is my own except for the pickup part. I am using Ann Dixon's baltic pattern as my daughter and I thought it looked the most tribal.

I am actually on holidays for christmas and I am weaving in the annexe of our caravan. It was really hard getting that loom into the car. My hubby just shakes his head at me, but because we are away for 7 weeks going back and forth for work though it would be the end of January before I was back and that really would be cutting it fine.

Okay string heddles are made and I count my warps and I have 342 in total. 

I am using an eight ply cotton/acrylic from spotlight but I really would have loved a firmer cotton maybe mercerized as well. 

We chose to do an asymmetrical design as well in a in 3 shades. Natural, black and white.

Here it is so far.

I am really happy with how its turning out and I am trying really hard to keep those selvages straight as well. 

I am beating the weft very firmly as well.

I think I will do a small video of me weaving this as well as further record keeping for myself and anyone else that may read this blog. It may help.

Bye for now.

Backstrap weaving update

Read the latest on the links above.

Andean Pebble Weave update

Well here is the update on my Pebble Weave LARGE project.
Faults and all. But learning and making mistakes is what it's all about.
With the kind help finally from Laverne I seperated the warps into pairs .
I did have that one right, right from the start so that was good to know. I just double checked it.

Further reading  on my update on my Backstrap/Inkle Weaving Page here