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How to Keep Life Cosy on Cool Days
What started as a baby blanket design turned into a delightful pair of throws in this new exclusive project.
What started as a baby blanket design turned into a delightful pair of throws in this new exclusive project. <a href="https://handwovenmagazine.com/cuddle-up-throw/">Continue reading.</a>
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After creating some wonderful huck towels, Designer Malynda Allen wanted to weave blankets using a similar draft and materials. She needed baby blankets for gifts, so she put on a long warp threaded for huck, sampled tie-ups and treadlings, and wove several blankets. Then she realized she’d like throws made on the same warp, but dressed up with diagonally knotted fringe.
The result was the super cozy and delightfully soft throw that you see here, aptly named the Cuddle Up Throw and developed exclusively for the Fall 2025 issue of Handwoven. Read on to learn more about it, or head to the library to access the project PDF and WIFs. Please enjoy this subscriber bonus project from the Fall 2025 collection.—Handwoven editors
About the Cuddle Up Throw
Since designing my Prairie Bloom Towels (see Handwoven, May/June 2023), I have wanted to weave a blanket in huck with cotton from the Georgia Yarn Company.
Those towels were so soft and wonderful that I felt a similar pattern would be perfect
SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE
After creating some wonderful huck towels, Designer Malynda Allen wanted to weave blankets using a similar draft and materials. She needed baby blankets for gifts, so she put on a long warp threaded for huck, sampled tie-ups and treadlings, and wove several blankets. Then she realized she’d like throws made on the same warp, but dressed up with diagonally knotted fringe.
The result was the super cozy and delightfully soft throw that you see here, aptly named the Cuddle Up Throw and developed exclusively for the Fall 2025 issue of Handwoven. Read on to learn more about it, or head to the library to access the project PDF and WIFs. Please enjoy this subscriber bonus project from the Fall 2025 collection.—Handwoven editors
About the Cuddle Up Throw
Since designing my Prairie Bloom Towels (see Handwoven, May/June 2023), I have wanted to weave a blanket in huck with cotton from the Georgia Yarn Company.
Those towels were so soft and wonderful that I felt a similar pattern would be perfect [PAYWALL] for a baby blanket. Recently, I needed some baby blankets for gifts, so I put a long warp on my loom, intending to sample before I wove them. I chose the Huck-A-Back Blocks draft from Marguerite Porter Davison’s A Handweaver’s Pattern Book and began playing with the suggested treadlings, and also tried a few tie-ups and treadlings of my own. I chose my favorites from my washed samples and began weaving blankets.
As I wove, I thought about using this pattern to make a lovely fringed throw for my home. After finishing a couple of the baby blankets that had started me down this path, I decided to change direction and weave a pair of throws—using different yarn colors and treadlings for each. I love the look of knotted fringe, so I chose diagonal knotting to finish my throws.
Different treadlings result in pattern variations in designer Malynda Allen’s Cuddle Up Throw.
These throws make wonderful shoulder shawls or lap blankets to keep life cozy on a cool day. If you weave a plain-weave hem instead of the fringe, these throws make soft, cuddly baby blankets. Reduce the number of repeats and you can weave some lovely towels for your home, too!
Weave it Yourself: Project Overview
STRUCTURE
Huck blocks.
EQUIPMENT
4-shaft loom, 40" weaving width; 10-dent reed; 1 shuttle.
YARNS
Warp: 10/2 Ring Spun Cotton (100% unmercerized cotton; 4,200 yd/lb; Georgia Yarn Company), Natural, 4,378 yd.
Weft: 10/2 Ring Spun Cotton, Olive Green and Carolina Blue, 1,793 yd each.
OTHER SUPPLIES
Straight pins; firm surface for knotting fringe that you can push pins into (Malynda suggests a cushioned footstool or cardboard box); straightedge.
WARP LENGTH
796 ends 5½ yd long (includes floating selvedges; allows 12" for take-up, 40" for interstitial fringe, 25" for loom waste; loom waste does not include fringe).
SETTS
Warp: 20 epi (2/dent in a 10-dent reed).
Weft: 24 ppi.
DIMENSIONS
Width in the reed: 399⁄10".
Woven length: (measured under tension on the loom) 120¾", plus 40" for fringe.
Finished size: (after wet-finishing) two throws, 33" × 52" each.
Weave it Yourself: Project PDF + WIF Link
Visit the Handwoven library to get the PDF and WIFs for the Cuddle Up Throw.
