OK, we're starting something new. Laura Fry and Syne Mitchell have agreed to let us use the pattern written by Laura and published in Weavezine on 10/30/09 called "Down the Garden Path with Rosepth". 

To respect the copyright, we can only publish the link, http://weavezine.com/content/down-garden-path-rosepath and the draft for the threading,

In this article, Laura shows how to use this threading to create Rosepath borders on plain weave towels.  Follow all three patterns to create lavendar, tulips daisies and butterflies. Or, choose just one.

You don't need to be limited to making a towel, use the draft and the motifs for a border on a table runner, napkins or even a scarf.

That's part of the WAL fun. We choose the basics and you are free to create.

I have been asked to specify exactly where to begin. l usually start by reading the pattern through and then I go to the Weaving calculator in the Resources section on Weavolution and I calculate the size of my article. Now I need to decide what to make. Hmmm. 

Tell me what you plan to do with this WAL.

Claudia

Comments

bolivian warmi

Wow-that looks great. How is embroidery floss sold over there? I just get it in those tiny Anchor skeins which don't go far at all but they are so cheap!. Is it sold in balls or large skeins there?

Laverne

Jerri S

Laverne, In little skeins. I have lots of it left over from the days when I did counted cross stitch. So I'm just using up as many little skeins as I can :D It takes a bit of time, but I pretty much got each colored part of the motif done from one skein. Splitting the 6 strand into 3 strands took a little time; not sure if I will do that after all.

My goal this year is stash busting, so this project fits the bill. Of course, just doing the motifs on the borders won't use as much floss as the sampling did, but then, I don't have to do the mofifs just on the edges.

Jerri

bolivian warmi

Yes, it was a good stash bust for me too as I only had to buy the green and there were so many times that I almost just threw my little box of embroidery bits away. Last time I used them I, too, split them but I used them doubled this time. I hope you get to use your beautiful sampler for something.

Laverne

 

 

sally orgren

Okay, we (Jerri and I) have a question about the tulip draft .wif posted by Laura over at Weavezine for this Weave-along.

We noticed in the treadling provided for this particular draft, that the "tabby" isn't actually alternating between 1 + 3 and 2 + 4 like the other drafts. As depicted, it creates some longer floats in the background area of the tulip design. We assume this was intentional, and wondered why? 

Also, here at Weavolution, under the Structo Central Forum, member Bonnie Datta posted a boundweave Sheep she wove using a Rosepath draft of 12341432 = 8 thread repeat. (You can also find an image of it under "projects." ) Her draft is slightly different than the Weave-along. (Our draft is 1234143214 = 10 thread repeat.)

So that led to a question about the original draft posted...

Is there a design advantage or disadvantage to having 8 or 10 threads in the pattern repeat? Theoretically, more threads would suggest more design capabilities, but when we took pencil-to-graph paper (and then got TOTALLY geeky with side-by-side laptops and doodling around with out different weaving software) the best we could come up with was a highly-imagined, startled, naked sheep. (So was it just us, or does anyone else see the sheared white sheep, black head, with arms raised?) 

We hope for more enlightenment!

It's been a very fun exercise so far, and glad this collaboration took place between Laura, Syne, and Weavolution, not to mention Jerri & I!

Sally

laurafry

I'll have to quote Robert Browning(?) when asked what one of his early poems meant.  He said "When I wrote that only God and I knew what it meant.  Now only God knows."

I truly don't remember why I did it that way - who knows, it could be a mistake.  :}

As for the sheep - you could say they are dancing like Sheila O'Hara's?

Cheers,

Laura

 

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