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Blazing Star Mitts

Inspired by Liatris in bloom, these adaptable mitts combine ribbed stretch and 100% wool yarn for an easy, resilient fit.

Pattern · Farm & Fiber Knits

Virga Towels

Three colors of cottolin yarn and a clasped-weft design combine to suggest the sometimes-stormy, sometimes-lacy virga cloud.

Pattern · Little Looms

A Bag for Janice

Say yes to your inner flower child with this casual rigid-heddle–woven cross-body bag. A two-toned warp combined with clasped weft creates the bag body, which is then finished with a twisted rope handle, knotted tassels, and, in yet another nod to the sixties, beads.

Devoted Cardigan by Rowan

In partnership with Rowan, the Devoted Cardigan features a seamless, top-down design that combines cozy mohair softness, elegant texture, and striking colorwork for effortlessly wearable warmth.

Pattern · Farm & Fiber Knits

Urban Organizer

Keep even the smallest of spaces tidy with this wall organizer. Variegated and textured yarns combined with just a touch of pick-up create a project that only looks complicated.

Pattern · Little Looms

Windows and Shadows Shawl Pattern

Here is a pdf download of the pattern for this beautiful shawl by Jannie Taylor that combines spaces in the warp and weft with shadow weave to great effect.

Pattern · Handwoven

Meteor Shower Scarf

Reach for the stars with this beautiful scarf. Beaded weft loops combine with a simple clasped-warp design to create a meteor shower in miniature along the length of the scarf.

Pattern · Little Looms

Techie Towels

You don't have to be a technical whiz to weave these circuit-board inspired towels! By combining a simple double heddle twill with color-and-weave, designer Michele Marshall created a design that looks complex but weaves up easily.

Pattern · Little Looms

Flower Garden Throw

Weave an heirloom-worthy quilt using pin-loom pieces. Make the quilt as written or mix and match your favorite color combinations to make a blanket that is uniquely you.

You Are Here Pillows

Center yourself with these soft pillows and their raised design woven on the rigid-heddle loom using the catenpile technique. Jessica combined a 3/2 cotton warp and cotton chenille weft to create a “peach fuzz” effect in the ground cloth.

Lobster Pot Scarf

Don’t let the heat deter you from summer weaving. Combine a fresh linen blend with silk/stainless steel yarn for a cool scarf.

Pattern · Little Looms

The Dog Walker’s Friend

Walk your pooch in style with this useful inkle-woven pouch you can attach via carabiner to your dog’s leash. The clever design combines turned krokbragd and plain-weave bands.

Pattern · Little Looms

Tree Scarf

Celebrate the season with this clever scarf that combines wintry warp-clasped tree shapes and colorful Danish medallions. Embrace asymmetry with twisted fringe on one end and playful tassels on the other.

Pattern · Little Looms

No Assumptions Kitchen Towels

Cheerful red stripes in the warp and weft combined with simple pick-up create a set of striking towels that will warm up any kitchen.

Pattern · Little Looms

Retro Botanical Crewelwork Tote - Coloring Page Only

Use colored pencils to try out color combinations of these botanical motifs (including a beautiful clematis flower).

Article · Spin Off

Harvest Festival Runner

This vibrant runner takes advantage of differential shrinkage by combining cottons with wool singles. The result is subtle and spectacular.

Pattern · Little Looms

Madeira Spring Scarf

Use clasped warp and weft to capture the essence of the quietly colorful landscape of balmy Madeira Island. Anu combined solid-colored and variegated Tencel in her warp and weft to create a soft and drapey scarf with two distinctly colored sides.

Weldon's Practical Knitter, Series 25

The Twenty-Fifth Series includes 18 knitting patterns for stockings, hoods, vests, combinations, quilts, capes, and more.

Goldenrod Scarf

Mix it up a bit on your rigid-heddle loom by combining plain weave with handworked Danish medallions that flow both horizontally and vertically. The textures and patterns created add a wow factor to this single-color scarf.

Pattern · Little Looms

Nautical Towels

Inspired by the colors of the ocean, these towels are ready to soak up spills as big as the sea. The combination of 8/2 cotton and waffle weave makes for absorbent towels as useful as they are beautiful.

Pattern · Little Looms

A Yap Lace Edging in Crochet and Needle Lace Pattern

Bart Elwell’s exquisite Yap Lace incorporates an interesting structure of crochet combined with needle lace.

Pattern · PieceWork

Stepping Out Scarf

In the planning stages of this scarf, Susan and Melissa talked about ways to combine two colors in the same weft pick. At first, they considered clasped weft but ultimately decided instead to use the slit-weft technique.

Pattern · Little Looms

Handwoven September/October 2023

One of the joys of weaving is creating the unexpected. For this issue, that meant looking at how the combination of color, weave structure, and yarn types can produce the illusion of iridescence, pearlescence, and even incandescence in cloth. All nine projects seem to glow, reflect, and even shimmer in the light surrounding them.

Montadale Beanie

Create the texture of this hat as you work in the round using simple combinations of knit and purl.

Pattern · Farm & Fiber Knits