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Category Archives: Weaving Class

Woven or Fair Isle Knitting

Posted on January 2, 2021 by Eileen Lee Posted in Weaving Class
Scarf #1

Obtaining motivation and creativity has been challenging during the pandemic. When speaking with friends and family, it is worth remembering that they too are experiencing the strains and negative impact of this current pandemic. It is a very crazy world we are living in today.

While at a zoom meeting, I had just finished working on scarf #1 and was showing it to the group. A friend told me that it has the appearance of Fair Isle knitting. Wow – it does. Then I came up with an idea. The concept of weaving a fabric that resembles stranded knitting or fair isle. This is something to talk about. At last, I felt excited. This is going to be fun.

Eight shaft overshot is the structure. I am using small patterns and many colors similar to stranded knitting. You can make up your own designs. I wove three scarves presenting different looks but all reminiscent of knitting fair isle.

Scarf #1 – This is the first scarf I wove. The yarn used is 8/2 tencel set at 24 epi. The warp and tabby weft are black and the pattern weft are several jewel tone colors.

Scarf #2 – After completing scarf #1, I tied-on to the same warp using a 10/2 cotton cream color yarn. The tabby weft is cream (same as warp) and the pattern weft is several colors. For this scarf, I used three of the patterns from the first scarf and added a separation between patterns with a 3/4″ plain weave cream color weft.

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Scarf #3 – This scarf is similar to Scarf #2 except the yarn used is wool. The warp is a fawn color and again using many different colors in the weft.

Scarf #2 and #3 look very different in person – the pictures don’t necessarily reflect this.

This was a exciting project to work on. I wove this on my Schacht Pup. There are a lot of color changes, but it goes fast after awhile.

Hummingbird scarf

Posted on May 28, 2019 by Eileen Lee Posted in Weaving Class

This was woven using 8/2 tencel.  The warp stripes are randomly selected.  The structure is an undulated twill in a dark purple color

Reflected Double Weave

Posted on May 28, 2019 by Eileen Lee Posted in Weaving Class

My first attempt at reflected double weave.  It was fun.  The only change i would make for the next time is i would use a closer sett.  the yarn is 8/2 tencel set at 24 epi.  I would do maybe 30 or 34 epi next time.  

Weaving Using Hand Painted Warps

Posted on February 2, 2016 by Eileen Lee Posted in Weaving Class

I’m starting a new shawl where I first painted the rayon/cotton warp.  There are three painted and one solid warp.  I plan to stripe up and then weave using a very thin weft yarn so the project will be warped faced.  The set is 24 epi.  We’ll see the progress together.  Looks like a mess right now, but it will all work out

 

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Prayer Shawl

Posted on March 18, 2015 by Eileen Lee Posted in Weaving Class

2015-03-31 14.46.56I wove a prayer shawl for a dear friend who is very, very sick.  She tends to like natural colours so we have a black, brown, moss green, ecru and a dark purple.  It is a colour block twill.

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New Weavers

Posted on February 28, 2015 by Eileen Lee Posted in Weaving Class

A perfect rainy day for learning how to weave.  Becky and Carol were taught how to weave today.  There projects are great!  It is so much fun to see the excitement of people learning a new skill.2015-02-28 14.55.50 2015-02-28 14.56.39 2015-02-28 14.56.50

Erma Weaving

Posted on February 19, 2015 by Eileen Lee Posted in Weaving Class

Erma is weaving some kitchen towels for her grand daughter.  She is on a roll now.  The loom she just purchased is a 25″ Flip Schacht Rigid Heddle Loom.   2015-02-18 15.58.50 2015-02-18 15.58.012015-02-18 15.57.49

Wonderful morning at Dee’s House

Posted on February 7, 2015 by Eileen Lee Posted in Weaving Class

Today I had the privilege of spending a  wonderful morning with Dee Jones.  She instructed us on “How to Sew with Handwoven.    As most of you know, she has a wealth of information.  Thank you, Dee, for a perfectly delightful morning and the inspiration you have given me.

This picture makes me laugh because you can see my reflection in the mirror taking the picture.

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NC Knitters – Jeanne Doty’s House – Tuesdays 9:30-11:30 am

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Eileen Lee Posted in Knitting, Weaving Class

Jeanne is very gracious to offer her house on Tuesday mornings for social knitting gatherings.   February 3 was our first meeting for the NC Knitters.  It was so much fun sharing knitting and weaving.  There was plenty of inspiring conversation.  Just the other day, I read this story about social knitting.  This article was about the significance of social knitting in the rural Welsh knitters life:

“The knitting night was an important social event in eighteenth century Wales and well into the nineteenth century.  The party was often held on moonlit nights with special treats provided by the hostess.  The ladies usually arrived first and the young men followed later. All the ladies would work on their knitting;  some of the men would knit garters.  Both written and oral accounts show that not much work was really accomplished during these evenings – stories were told and stitches were dropped as teasing lads pull out needles.  Good storytellers were always welcome at these gatherings, especially if they told ghost stories, which made the ladies nervous and unwilling to walk home without a male escort (from Minwel Tibbott’s Knitting Stockings in Wales). “

My thought about this, if he values his life, my husband would never think of pulling out my needles! 2015-02-03 11.07.50 2015-02-03 11.06.16 2015-02-03 11.09.012015-02-03 11.07.332015-02-03 11.06.06

Weaving Class

Posted on January 26, 2015 by Eileen Lee Posted in Weaving Class

Today 2015-01-25 15.37.27was a weaving class  with sierra and jeanne

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