Hoppy Spring – Bunny or Towels Instructions

March 25, 2024

“Hoppy Spring”!  These adorable bunnies are ready to hop into your heart!  The spring-time combination of colors inspired us to make fabric and towels to match the spring-time season!  Choose your favorite colorway!  Each set of instructions will help you create 1 bunny or two towels.  If you want to make the bunny, you will need to purchase the pattern as well.

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Toasty Turned Taquete Cowls

November 16, 2023

Warm up the cold days with three toasty warm cowls!!  Three different weft colors will give you 3 different, yet related cowls.  Using a 4-shaft loom, 5/2 Tubular Spectrum™ Mercerized cotton yarn and ONE SHUTTLE, these toasty turned taquete cowls are as fun to weave as they are to wear.  Brew a pot of tea and get comfy.

Listen to the Loon! Difficulty level for this kit is Intermediate (Three fish).

Now available in Original and Blue colorways.  Scroll down for more information.

10 Color Petite Gamp Kit

November 9, 2023

This petite 10 color gamp kit contains ten of our Tubular Spectrumcolors to weave color gamps! Choose whether you would like to weave using Tints, Brights or Tones.  Available in 20/2, 10/2, 5/2, and 3/2 yarns. 

Gamps are a brilliant way to explore color interactions.  They will help you predict future color interactions and take the guess work out of project planning.

Listen to the Loon! Difficulty level for this kit is Advanced Beginner (Two fish). This is a Four to Eight harness kit.  The 3/2 size yarn also has instructions for making gamps on the rigid heddle loom.

Pretty in Pleats Vest Instructions

October 4, 2023

Experience the magic of Crimp Cloth. Pulled-thread Shibori and steam transform a multi colored, plain weave cloth into a plethora of pleats.  And you can use this magic cloth to make a vest with minimal sewing and optimal comfort and fit.  Designed by Dianne Totten from her amazing Crimp Cloth classes.

These are the instructions for the vest.  If you would like to have the instructions and all the yarns to make the vest.  Click here.

Wavelength Placemat Kit

September 13, 2023

Make some waves with these placemats woven on 8-shafts in Turned Taquete (aka Jin).  This kit features 5 colors of 5/2 Tubular Spectrum mercerized cotton yarn.  The kit includes warp and weft for 2 placemats in one colorway: there are 3 colorways to choose from.  Changing the weft color subtly changes the appearance of the warp colors.  Mix and match the colorways to make your own placemat set combinations!  This is a kit from DJE Handwovens and comes with a pre-wound warp.

Pretty in Pleats Vest Kit

September 12, 2023

Experience the magic of Crimp Cloth. Pulled-thread Shibori and steam transform a multi colored, plain weave cloth into a plethora of pleats.  And you can use this magic cloth to make a vest with minimal sewing and optimal comfort and fit.  Designed by Dianne Totten from her amazing Crimp Cloth classes.

Over The Moon Towel Instructions

August 30, 2023

Oh! How we love hemp dishtowels!  These are pretty enough for company (or those special gifts!) and sure to be a favorite at home for their brilliant colors and absorbency.  These overshot wonders are a combination of Tubular Spectrum™ cotton and our Lyte™ Hemp yarns, the best combination for thirsty towels.  Jean Jordan adapted a draft from Sharon Alderman’s book Mastering Weave Structures, page 136 when she designed these lovely towels.  Instructions tell you how to make 3 towels.  Would you like all the yarns to make these towels?  Click here.

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Master Weaver–Shadow Play Towel Instructions

August 28, 2023

Instructions to make the ShadowPlay Towels.  Designed by Master Weaver, Rebecca Winter, these towels use 10 colors of Tubular Spectrum to make colorful and exquisitely patterned towels.  The Shadow weave offers a wonderfully study drape for these colorful towels, and the blend of plain weave and feather stitching creates a fabulous texture.  3 different treadlings allow you to create 3 unique towels.  Available in Original and Northern Lights Colorway.

Listen to the Loon! Difficulty level is Intermediate to Advanced (Two fish). This is an Eight harness Project.

 

Chameleon Ombre Scarf Kit

January 20, 2023

Changing Colors! Blend three colors of yarn across the warp and weft to make a lovely scarf that gently shifts color from one edge to the other.  These scarves are designed to give you this fun color experience on either your Rigid Heddle or 4-shaft Loom!  Have fun and change color!   

This kit has three 1 ½ ounce cones of each of three analogous colors from our own Tubular Spectrum color wheel in 10/2 Mercerized Cotton

Listen to the Loon! Difficulty level for this kit is Advanced Beginner (Two fish)

Autumn Equinox Towel Kit

November 4, 2022

Use 7 cozy colors to make these towels to warm your hearth. This one-shuttle Turned Taquete (aka Jin) weave structure makes towels to match the season. This kit comes with enough yarn to make four dishtowels.  Kit includes both an 8-shaft and a 4-shaft pattern.  With the 8-shaft pattern, you can make both the towels with the circles and the towels with the blocks, and with the 4-shaft pattern you can make the towels with the blocks. Thanks to Susan Poague who designed the circle draft.  Her original towels can be found in Handwoven May/June 2019.

Listen to the Loon! Difficulty level for this kit is Intermediate (Three fish)

Master Weaver–Shadow Play Towels

September 20, 2022

These towels use 10 colors of Tubular Spectrum™ to make colorful and exquisitely patterned towels.  Designed by Master Weaver, Rebecca Winter, you can create 3 different towels with the yarn in this kit.  The Shadow weave offers a wonderfully sturdy drape for these colorful towels, and the blend of plain weave and feather stitching creates a fabulous texture.  Available in Original and Northern Lights Colorway.

Listen to the Loon! Difficulty level is Intermediate to Advanced (Two fish). This is an Eight harness kit.

 

Warped to Weave Mug Rug Instructions

September 6, 2022

Wind a warp with two colors of 5/2 Tubular Spectrum™  Mercerized cotton to make a nice pile of mug rugs.  This is a perfect short warp to practice warping your loom.  We have designed these mug rugs to show off a fun Color and Weave threading and provide lots of options for weaving.  Design created by Michele Belson.

Gradients for Your Table

November 8, 2021

Weave coordinating Napkin and Placemats using visual gradients with 2 colors in the warp.  The napkins are woven with 10/2 Tubular Spectrum™ mercerized cotton yarn, and the placemats are woven with 3/2 Tubular Spectrum™ mercerized cotton yarn.  Each kit contains enough yarn for warp and weft and has multiple color options.  Both the napkin and placemats have instructions for either shaft looms or rigid heddle looms.

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Double Rainbow Collections

September 20, 2021

All the yarn in 6 colors that you will need for Jennifer Moore’s Double Rainbow Class.  We have worked with Jennifer to bring you the perfect yarns in just the right amounts to get ready for her class.  Jennifer selected the six colors in the 5 colorways so you can choose your favorite and know they will work well in the class.  Currently available in 5/2 and 10/2 yarn.  No instructions are included in this yarn collection.

The collections are designed specifically to supply the yarn for Jennifer’s class, but you can find the complete instructions for weaving the Double Rainbow sampler  in Jennifer Moore’s book Doubleweave:Revised and Expanded.

 

10 Color Gamp Instructions

April 1, 2021

Gamps are a brilliant way to explore color interactions.  They will help you predict future color interactions and take the guess work out of project planning. This set of instructions will guide you through weaving three-four 10 color gamps.   The instructions are for our Bright Tubular Spectrum yarns.  You can substitute any 10 colors of Mercerized cotton yarn that you would like when weaving the gamps.

Available in 20/2, 10/2, 5/2, and 3/2 yarns.  Rigid heddle instructions are included with the 3/2 yarns.

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Basketweave Towels

November 30, 2020

Want to make Hand towels that are both functional and beautiful?  This is it!  8 colors from around our Tubular Spectrum Mercerized cotton plus enough white yarn to make either 2 or 4 beautiful and functional basket weave dishtowels.  Now available in Tones, Tints or Brights!  Scroll down for more information.

Sizzling Hot Pads Instructions

November 7, 2020

Here are the instructions to make four sizzling hot pads using 3/2 mercerized cotton yarn.  The instructions show you how to make a set of four hot pads or trivets  that simply glows with color. Warm up your kitchen with some sizzle! All on a 4-shaft loom!  Designed by Master Weaver Deanna Deeds.

Choose your favorite colorway below:

Sizzling Hot Pads

September 25, 2020

Woven in rep weave in an asymmetric block design, these sets of four hot pads or trivets simply glow with color. Cool colors contrast with gradually shifting warm hues that just pop!

All on a 4-shaft loom!

Designed by Master Weaver Deanna Deeds.

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