Purple, Orange, Yellow

I've been wanting to weave something from the Echo and Iris book for a while now and just haven't found what I want to weave.  Recently I took the online course offered by Marge Coe called The Corris Effect for 8 shafts.

I like Marge Coe's courses, they are very interesting and I have learned quite a lot about Fiberworks by just watching how she uses the software for things like Deflected Double Weave and The Corris Effect. Link to Marge Coe's Course

Corris Effect and Echo are very similar.  They both use multiple colors in the warp.  Corris uses 3 colors and Echo generally uses 4.  I am threading my loom with Purple, Orange and Yellow right now.

Using what I learned from Corris Effect, I chose a draft from Handweaving.net created by Bonnie Inouye.  #60949  It is a 16 shaft design that I wanted to use to weave a shawl.  The draft creates a large diamond shaped design which I thought would look great from the back when wearing the shawl.  It has been in my "to weave" list and I thought it would work for the Corris Effect.

After playing with the draft and colors I designed the draft seen below.

 This is a picture of both sides.  By using one color weft I am able to get what looks like a two shuttle weave with 2 weft colors.

I am weaving with 20/2 cotton Sett at 36 EPI.  Today I finished threading the heddles and will start the reed tomorrow.

This is the original design of the draft.

Deflected Double Weave

It is time to work on another double weave project for my study group.

I've been watching Madelyn Van Der Hoogt's video on Deflected DW  and also took the first DDW online course from Marg Coe at http://www.e-weaving.com.   I like Deflected DW because it creates bold graphic designs not seen in other weave structures.

It is easy to take another draft, use it as a profile draft and change it to DDW.  In the first course, Marg Coe shows step by step how to do this in Fiberworks.

Star of Bethlehem is the draft I chose to change into DDW.  This sample will be a shawl.  It is 22 inches wide on the loom.  For this I am using 10/2 Cotton in a pink color called Azalea and Wedgewood Blue,  both from WEBS.

Deflected Double Weave is a fabric that is woven as a single layer cloth.  There are sections of plain weave with floats that go over other plain weave.  If you removed one of the colors of the cloth you would still be left with a piece of cloth.

There are 4 ends of pink and 4 ends of blue alternating across the warp.  6 or 8 end segments can be used but, you need to consider how long the floats will be.  The thickness of the yarn, type of fiber and usage of the cloth would determine the proper length of the float.  For my first project I am using 4/4.

The sett for DDW is slightly more open than the suggested tabby for the yarn chosen.  I have chosen 30 EPI.  Since this is still double weave the sett is twice what you would use for a single weave.

This is a two shuttle weave; as you need to change colors every 4 picks.  I used a plain weave selvedge to eliminate the need for a floating selvedge or other edge techniques and will determine if I will carry the unused thread up the side or cut it each time I change colors.  I planned on carrying the color up the side of the cloth and have blue on one edge and pink on the other so the carry thread will not be noticeable.