A few days ago, I wove the header rows in order to spread the warp threads evenly across the width of the fabric.
Header rows
As I was preparing to begin the weaving, I realised that I had reasonable lengths of 5/2 cotton wound onto stick shuttles. I unwound this yarn into a pile on the floor and rewound it onto boat shuttle bobbins.
Bobbins ready for weaving – seven of 5/2 coloured cotton and one of 10/2 white cotton for a hem
I decided that I will finish each piece with a rolled, machine-sewn hem. For this reason, I wove 10 rows (~1.25cm) of 10/2 cotton in tabby to make a thinner hem roll.
This was followed by 6 rows (~1.25cm) of tabby weave in 5/2 cream, a 25cm section of pattern weave in 5/2 colours, 6 rows of cream tabby and finally 10 rows of 10/2 white tabby.
The first cloth is Huck lace with warp floats (p16 of Tom Knisely’s book “Huck lace weaving patterns”).
It has the white/cream tabby border sections, a 5cm band of dark blue (there are 10 rows in a pattern block, 3 blocks of pattern is about 5 cm), a 5cm band of red and a 5cm band of yellow. I will finish this one with another band of red, then blue and finally the cream/white tabby border. So in order to weave about 25cm of pattern, I can do 5 x 5cm bands of colour. I will then leave a 2cm gap before the next piece.
Tabby white 10/2 cotton, tabby cream 5/2 cotton, Huck lace pattern blue, red & yellow in 5/2 cotton.