Sunday, April 12, 2009

Log Cabin Blankets, Progress Report


I have been slacking off on these log cabin blankets, but the last couple of weekends, I got a bit done. I was having selvage problems, as I may have mentioned. I got advice from the Weaving group on Ravelry. It turns out the trick is, when weaving with 2 shuttles: whenever you have 2 shuttles on one side at the same time, place the second shuttle to arrive on that side BEHIND the first one. That will cause the weft threads to twist around each other at the selvage, so that you will not have any uncaught warp threads. Here is a photo of the selvage to show you what I mean. Log Cabin is a bit more difficult than the waffle weave, I think. I can't "space out" or I will forget the shuttle order. To me, a lot of the fun of weaving is getting into a rhythm and being able to go into a beta state. But, maybe once I have been doing this for awhile, it will get easier. I still need a lot of practice to consider myself an experienced weaver. I probably should weave a little every day, not just on weekends.

1 comment:

Nancy McCarroll said...

looks difficult; should be gorgeous!