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My favorite weaving pattern for now….

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I modified a pattern from the book, The Weaver’s Inkle Pattern Directory, that looks like snowflakes and diamonds. It’s on pg. 77 and is called simply, Baltic-13 2 (it’s actually the one at the bottom of the chart on pg. 77. It’s a neat pattern, but when I started the first one I redrew it so it’s snowflakes and hearts with a 3 row space between each sequence.

I finished the first belt using this pattern in cream white wool and royal blue sized wool. I rewarped the inkle loom with the cream white and my handspun, handdyed turquiose green wool for the next band/belt.

I graphed a draft of my derivation of the Baltic-13 2 draft and changed the colors for the next belt I will be weaving next. The next image is the weaving draft to be used with the threading chart of Baltic-13 2.

I’ve been warping the inkle loom with 9 extra warp threads (4 up and 5 down) on each side of the pattern(s) because I like more selvage on the edges. This next band/belt will be in dark violet, handspun handdyed light turquoise green, forest green, and the single outside pattern edge in hte dark violet.

When I have time, I’ll post progress pictures on facebook and instagram as I go along.

Get going and make something AMAZING!!! Feel free to use the chart for weaving, knitting, crocheting, etc.

Inkle Loom Weaving Has Been Brought Back Into My Life!

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It’s been over 10 years since I started weaving on an inkle loom again. I sold the first inkle loom I had, well over 10 years ago, because there was a lot of life happening with us. Mind you, I like life happening, but not exactly the way it was doing so at that time.

Fast forward 10+ years and about 30 weaving books later: We went to a local auction house and there were tons of weaving looms up for auction. There were floor looms, table top looms, and a couple of small looms that included an inkle loom. I was able to score a handmade inkle loom for under $10 and another loom I might discuss at a later date (after I learn how to use it).

The inkle loom came with a lot of cute stickers all over it and a sample block, inkle band already in progress. I finished weaving it after I dusted, vacuumed, and cleaned the loom and band so I could finish it.

My hubby and I stripped most of the stickers off of it. I left the stickers of the little girl in the green dress and her dog on inside of the loom because I liked them. I sanded it and hubs varnished it.

I rewarped it with rust brown and light green wool for a simple inkle band.

There’s a saying, “If you don’t use it, you’ll lose it.” I still knew the basics, but I had to relearn how to do the string heddles warping procedure.

After I cut off the brown and green band, I rewarped it again, with black, blue, and white wool for another very short band because I once again forgot to place the unheddled warp threads in the right place.

With the 4th band, I feel that I’m back in the swing of it and it’s coming along quite nicely.

I dove right in and finished this Baltic style 9, diamond sampler belt with braided ends, rather quickly. I wove another sampler after that.

Obviously, I need to weave in the ends on this one, but otherwise I’m pleased with it because it’s woven using my handspun wool yarn! This is made of 2 Baltic style 9 samples from the book, “The Weaver’s Inkle Pattern Directory”.

This black and purple band became completely a Baltic style 9 freestyle. It’s fishes! Every shape of fish I could graph on paper because I needed to see every variation!

This fish band is my fav right now, however it is listed in my Etsy shop for sale right now along with the rust brown and pink diamond band!!

Get busy and make something! Anything!! It doesn’t matter what it is so long as you give it a go!!!