Best of 2025
from Quilting & Learning
Welcome to the Best of 2025 post. The annual linking party is hosted by Cheryl of Meadow Mist Designs. Thanks Cheryl!
 |
I'm very ambivalent about what I accomplished this year, so I hope that you'll oblige me as I review and see how I did!
read more
December 22, 2025
Week 51 of 2025
from Thread Head
This week I finished weaving a set of tea towels -
This is my own pattern from the Goose Eye draft in the book A Handweaver's Pattern Book by Marguerite Porter Davison (the green one). I chose the draft because there are quite a few tie-ups and treadling patterns. Each towel is a different pattern. The towels were woven with 2/8 unmercerized cotton from Maurice Brassard.
With the warp ends I was able to make a few more paper towel replacement cloths.
More details can be found on my Ravelry page.
November 14, 2025
Suffolk puffs and a little piece of ruched weaving
from contemporary embroidery
There's lots of titivating going on here.I'm now three pages in with my new collection of embroidered pieces.Embroidery on number four will start later, it's already pinned together. Another distraction has however reared its head.We are doing a little white on white embroidery in class so I now have an itch for another white on white wrapping cloth. Let's see where that takes me.
Related Stories
November 2, 2025
Weaving on Paper
from Quilting & Learning
Hi and welcome. I hope that you've been having fun working on your stitching and quilting projects! I've been going a little crazy making mini weavings on paper and cardstock. What fun - and I did learn a lot about how I like to play - it was an interesting self-discovery.
Mini Woven Projects
Although I was a hand-weaver in my 20's and early 30's, I lost the joy that it brought me as life got ridiculously busy. My 15" loom was too noisy to work on while the babies were asleep and by then I had left ...
read more
October 1, 2025
season 2 of Creative Crossroads
from Ellyn's Place
Catherine and I are back at the podcasting! And here's some fun news.... we are now posting our episodes onYouTube as well as on the podcast apps. We've posted 2 episodes so far this season one of the two of us chatting about what's catching our attention these days.
The second season 2 episode is an interview with my good friend Kathie Roig. Kathie is a weaver (in fact she's the one who taught me to weave!) and tryer of all the craft mediums. I think you'll love hearing about her trial and error ...
read moreSeptember 15, 2025
Week 37 of 2025
from Thread Head
This week I finished another set of thrum towels -
Just one of twenty, 10" squares with overlocked edges, just like the ones I finished a few weeks ago.
I wanted to have a good selection of little towels to use instead of paper towels/paper napkins, and these are perfect. More details and photos can be found on my Ravelry project page.
My husband and I also finished making a little stool from a dead ash tree that fell in our yard this summer - very rustic, but surprisingly sturdy (Molly is in the background waiting for someone to throw her ...
read more
September 1, 2025
Week 35 of 2025
from Thread Head
No finishes this week, but a few works in progress -
A pair of handspun socks that are almost finished (started the ribbing - this is my take-along project).
A new weaving project on the loom - another set of thrum towels (the last ones are so useful).
Knitting sleeves on a sweater - the sleeves have taken me a lot longer to knit than the rest of the sweater (I am knitting the sleeves two-at-a-time so there is a lot more adjusting of stitches and yarn than knitting the body of the sweater). I spun the yarn for this sweater during TdF this ...
read more
August 11, 2025
Week 32 of 2025
from Thread Head
This week I finished a weaving project -
These are ~10" squares to be used instead of paper towels. Made with leftover 2/8 cotton from other weaving projects (mentioned the project on an older post - link).
I serged/overlocked the edges.
Here is the fabric fresh off the loom - 21"x95".
It was fun to weave with the thrums - and to think I had been throwing out the loom waste before!
A tip I was given by a friend for an easy way to make curves on the serger/overlocker was to cut off the corners before sewing - works great ...
read more
July 28, 2025
Week 30 of 2025
from Thread Head
This week I finished up a set of tea towels -
These went on the loom in April for a simple summer project to weave when I had a few minutes here and there (my loom is in the basement, and summer is for spending outdoors). We had some rainy days and these ended up getting finished earlier than I thought.
Another project for my year of experimenting with weaving - a simple turned twill that I tried different tie-ups, different colours and different treadling patterns. The warp is 2/8 unmercerized cotton, and most of the weft is the same, but ...
read more
June 10, 2025
more weaving and a little padded silk
from Karen Ann Ruane
more weaving and a little padded silk
read moreJune 7, 2025
Applique, weaving and patchwork.....a sample.
from Karen Ann Ruane
Applique, weaving and patchwork.....a sample.
read moreApril 28, 2025
Week 17 of 2025
from Thread Head
This week I sewed a pair of slippers -
The pattern is the Wayfarer Shoes by Twig and Tale. This is the third pair I have made. It is such a great pattern - well drafted, with well explained, easy to follow instructions (there are videos too). For this pair I used some linen, that I think was once curtains, for the outside, moose hide for the sole, leftover quilting cotton for the lining and a piece of thick wool, from an old coat, for the insole.
I also finished weaving a set of towels. This is another one of my year ...
read more
April 21, 2025
Week 16 of 2025
from Thread Head
This week I finished weaving a buffet runner -
It is to coordinate with the table runner I finished last week.
It is 20" x 47". Woven with 2/8 cotton for the warp and 2/8 tencel for the weft.
This is part of my 2025 year of experimenting with weaving - the third matt/shiny project. The last one wasn't successful (the orange runner shown here), so for this one I only changed one variable - colour, from the first one (the gold runner shown here). I am happy with how it turned out - I think this weaving pattern is ...
read more
April 7, 2025
Week 14 of 2025
from Thread Head
This week I finished another set of tea towels -
When I modified the pattern to make the horizontal and vertical stripes the same width and wove a table runner, I knew I would try some more towels (the runner was a short warp to see if the modification would work before trying a long warp for towels).
This time I modified the pattern to make a one over one "weaving" pattern.
The warp in 2/16 unmercerized cotton in beige, and the pattern weft is 2/8 unmercerized ...
read more
March 10, 2025
Week 10 of 2025
from Thread Head
This week I finished weaving a set of tea towels -
This is a new-to-me type of weaving structure - M's and O's.
When they were on the loom the threads were straight,
Photos from Around -
The chickens are really enjoying getting ...
read more
March 1, 2025
a little weaving and more page embellishments
from Karen Ann Ruane
a little weaving and more page embellishments
read moreFebruary 24, 2025
Week 8 of 2025
from Thread Head
This week I finished a woven table runner -
Last year I wove some Heavy Meta towels. I loved the pattern, but because I substituted yarn that was readily available to me the horizontal and vertical stripes didn't weave to the same width. I knew I would revisit the pattern to see what I could do to change that.
The difference in the mock up is ...
read more
February 17, 2025
Week 7 of 2025
from Thread Head
This week I finished a set of tea towels -
They are woven with 2/16 cotton and 2/8 cotton from Maurice Brassard in Quebec. The warp is white, but the weft is various colours. The weave structure is crackle - something new to me (it is supposed to look like crackle glaze on pottery). They were really nice to weave, and it was fun to play with different colours. More information can ...
read more
February 3, 2025
Week 5 of 2025
from Thread Head
This week I finished another woven table runner -
This one is an overshot weaving. It is about 22" x 42" (not including fringe).
Woven in Burgundy 2/8 tencel for the warp and tabby weft, and medium brown mercerized 2/3 cotton (leftover from another project) for the pattern weft. The weaving draft is Wandering Vine from the green book by Marguerite P. Davison (downloaded from Anna's Archive).
The back is the reverse (more details on my Raverlry page).
Hard colour to photograph, but it is more like this.
Photos from Around -
Chickens in their nesting boxes (the heat ...
read more
January 27, 2025
Week 4 of 2025
from Thread Head
I finished a set of towels this week -
The pattern is from the Jane Stafford School of Weaving - season 6, episode 2.
There are a few different weave structures, and it was a good learning experience. Link to my Ravelry page with more photos and details.
I also wove a table runner (link to my Ravelry page). It is 23" x 55" (not including fringe).
Since my weaving goal for this year is to try new things, for this one I wanted to try weaving with the same colour yarn, but in two different fibres. One is a matt ...
read more
- weaving
- Page 1 of 5 ( 98 posts )
- next