Placemats to Match

My weaving guild, the Western North Carolina Fiber/Handweavers Guild, had a napkin exchange this summer.  The finished napkins will be exchanged at our Guild meeting in November.  Since I am weaving napkins, I decided to weave matching placemats using the same color, Mediterranean Blue.  The placemats are woven using a huck boxes pattern.  For some reason the placement of the boxes is not centered on the placemat.  Next time, I will change the threading to provide more symmetry in the design.

The placemats are woven with a thick 3/2 cotton set at 12 epi, so they weave up very fast.  I ended up with 10 placemats and I will have 10 napkins (7 from the guild exchange and 3 extras that I finished).  I have woven these placemats before in Amber Gold and I plan to weave up some napkins to match. However, I recently tried to re-order the yarn from WEBS, and that color is not available in 8/2 cotton, so I will need to weave with the finer 10/2 cotton.

Huck Lace Placemats

I completed these placemats several months ago, then got lazy on photographing and writing up the results of my weaving.  The placemats are made using 3/2 mercerized cotton for both the warp and the weft, so they weave up very quickly.  The recipe for these, Elegant Placemats, came from another of the free publications from Handwoven, Free Handweaving Projects for Beginners.  Four placemats could be made with a one pound cone of yarn, but since I wanted to weave up at least 6, I needed to buy 2 cones of yarn.  The only problem with these are the edges tend to pucker in the plain weave sections.

Date Finished  June 2013

Loom  Baby Wolf

Weave Structure  Huck

Reed  12, 12 epi

Warp     Fiber  Mercerized cotton

              Count  3/2

              Color  Amber Gold

              Mfr

              Source  WEBS

Warp     Width in Reed  15"

              Ends  177

              Length  5 yds - made 7 placemats

Weft      Fiber - same as warp

              

Beat 50 - 50          

Size  13 X 18, hemmed