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You’ve come to the right place if you’re looking for bonus web materials for Handwoven Winter 2025—plus subscriber-exclusive projects and WIFs, lift plans, and other helpful links and resources.
Bonus Web Materials
Download the Star of Bethlehem Overshot Draft. Tom Knisely based his color-and-weave samples in Notes from the Fell on this original version.
WIFs
Don’t forget to check out the WIFs for this issue’s projects in the Handwoven library. They are free downloads for All-Access Subscribers.
What are WIFs good for? Read about them here. And if you’ve ever felt frustrated by the brackets in weaving drafts, click that link to learn about how WIFs and your weaving software may be able to make threading and treadling easier.
Subscriber-Exclusive Patterns
Visit the Handwoven library, or click below to access all three BONUS patterns shown on page 77 of the issue, available only to subscribers of Handwoven magazine.
Bonus projects for subscribers, from left: Misty Mountain Wall Hanging, Stretchy Stripes Bag, and Shooting Stars Scarf
Lift Plans
Lift plans are helpful if you weave on a table loom or a manual dobby loom. (Note that lift plans are not provided for projects woven exclusively in plain weave.)
Below are links to lift plans for two of this issue’s projects. They are free to download for all readers. If you’re looking for lift plans for other projects in this issue, please send us an email.
- Dicey Dish Towels lift plan download
- Misty Mountain Runner lift plan download
Helpful Links and Resources
Rebecca Winter writes about how the Powell Method of shadow weave drafting works in the May/June 2023 issue of Handwoven, beginning on page 18.
ADVERTISEMENTIf you’re curious about the Atwater Method of shadow weave drafting, Jannie Taylor’s video courses will fill you in.
For her Making Waves Runner, Andrea Williams was inspired by Jane Patrick’s use of pineapple yarn to outline honeycomb cells. That project can be found on pages 28–29 in the September/October 2008 issue of Handwoven.
Several projects in this issue rely on fulling and differential shrinkage to create three-dimensional shaping. To learn more about fulling, visit our sister publication, Little Looms.
Watch Laura Fry’s wet-finishing video course, where she demonstrates fulling by hand and gives tips for fulling by machine.
Alison Stewart-Guinee suggests that you experiment with treadling in her Birds of a Feather Scarf. To learn more about treadling variations for twills, visit the Handwoven site here.
If Claudia Tokola’s Blueberry Waffle Towels have you hooked on waffle weave, the Best of Handwoven: Waffle Weave Technique Series eBook includes a dozen projects on looms ranging from rigid-heddle to eight-shaft.
You can also find a four-shaft waffle weave draft on page 55 in the September/October 2003 issue of Handwoven.
If you act right now, it’s not too late! We’d love you to join us at our next weaving retreat on March 8–12, 2026, in Loveland, Colorado. Learn more about Weave Together with Handwoven.