Cotton

The Handwoven January/February 2019 issue has a beautiful selection of five scarves and shawls woven with yarn blends by Anu Bhatia, Deb Essen, Nancy Dunlap, Sandra Hutton, and Pattie Graver.

Madelyn shares her tips for yarn substitutions when you can't or don't want to use the yarn specified in your weaving patterns.

I have a pattern that I’d like to use that calls for 8/2 cotton. However, my best quality cotton is 22/2. What substitutions do I have to make in terms of ends per inch, reed size, etc?

Here is a dilemma: I have inherited several cones of two different yarns and would like to make a table runner, but I'm not confident in how to approach it.

I am weaving a small table runner using 3/2 pearl cotton for warp and weft (red and green in the warp, white in the weft). I used a draft (#479, page 129) from Carol Strickler's A Weaver's Book of 8-Shaft Patterns, which I've modified a little. 

Celebrate friendship and weaving with Suzie Liles’s 14-shaft Friendship Scarf. Suzie’s design cleverly uses Bronson lace to spell out Frienship in Weaving in crisp and lovely linen. Find it in Loom Theory 2018: Eight and Over Eight Scarf Collection.

Using just 8-shafts—no pick-up stick required—Suzie’s Friendship scarf has friendship spelled out in beautiful Bronson lace. Woven in crisp and luscious linen, this scarf from Handwoven Loom Theory: Eight and Over Eight Scarf Collection is sure to delight.

Why do my selvedge threads loosen as I weave?

Here are some Hanukkah crafts you can do with yarn.

Sarah Wroot’s working title for her Spin Off Winter 2019 article started as “The Cassimere Project” but became “The Cassimere Insanity.”