Woven to Wear: 17 Thoughtful Designs with Simple Shapes by Murphy Marilyn

Author:Murphy, Marilyn [Murphy, Marilyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781620333860
Publisher: Interweave
Published: 2013-08-25T21:00:00+00:00

Weaving

Before you start planning this garment, be sure to follow the instructions for measuring and making a muslin (see Making a Sample Garment, pages 58–59). Make any adjustments to weaving width and fabric length before winding the warp. Note that take-up and shrinkage with this singles yarn can be as much as 20%, so determine warp width and length for your desired finished size with that in mind.

Wind a warp of 210 ends following the Warp Color Order. Use your preferred method to warp the loom for plain weave.

Spread the warp by weaving a 3" header using a smooth nonfulling waste yarn (see Using Waste Yarn, page 15). Most of the waste-yarn areas will become the fringed edges of the garment. Using 2 shuttles, weave plain weave, alternating 2 picks of Sage wool with 2 picks of Tan wool, starting the shuttles from opposite sides to carry the inactive wefts up opposite selvedges. Avoid overlapping the beginning and ending of the weft yarns by using the wet-splicing method for a smoother join (see Wet Splicing, page 93).

Weave 68" for the body of the sweater, beginning and ending with Sage. Weave 2" with waste yarn. Weave 29" for the sleeves following the same color order as for the warp, beginning and ending with Sage. Finish with 2" of waste yarn. Weave 3½" for the collar following the same color order, beginning and ending with Sage. End with 3" of waste yarn and then remove the fabric from the loom, leaving 3–4" of warp fringe at each end to tie in temporary knots.

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