Monk's Belt Weaving
Finished
January 1, 2023
February 11, 2023

Monk's Belt Weaving

Project info
Design Collection 18 and MPD
Monk's Belt Blocks
Weaving
Mom and Sarah and Cheryl
Tools and equipment
LeClerc Nilus Floor Loom 4-harness
Yarn
24 epi
Borgs Vävgarner Bomullin
Gray
Louet Euroflax Milan Variegated
Brown
Vreseis Ltd Fox Fibre 10/2 Cotton
Brown
Notes

Warp is half gray Cottolin spirit yarn that Marsha found at Goodwill. It looks gray in the bag with the green yarn. Looks more purple on the warp with a warmer color.
The other half is Sierra Sienna brown cotton FoxFibre. It is a rusty brown that is looking more orange against the purplish gray. I also threw in some vertical warp stripes of a variegated Euroflax linen cone that I bought many years ago at the old Monarch. I was thinking of a lace shawl, but now that yarn is in my weaving stash.

Some reservations about the warp. The two yarns are very different in softness and stretchiness. My usual stripes are thin and I avoid having large blocks of different textures. Not sure how that will play out here. I wonder if I will end up with tension issues or if they will feel strange after they are made up. Or will the weft marry them sufficiently? An experiment! (This turned out not to be an issue at all.)

02-15-2023

I like them more than I thought I would. All the pattern weft yarn is the same weight as the tabby weft yarn, except in one where I used a thin tabby weft and another where I used a doubled yarn as pattern weft. That latter one looks more like what I think of as monk’s belt, with a more solid column of weft floats. But all of the towels look nice.

The pattern says 4 inch hem, but really it is 4” of tabby which includes the hem. My hem was 1/2 inch and another 1/2 inch folded over. So a total of about 1 inch used for hem.

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February 11, 2023
About this yarn
by Louet
Lace
100% Linen / Flax
626 yards / 100 grams

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About this yarn
by Borgs Vävgarner
Lace
60% Cotton, 40% Linen / Flax
1750 yards / 250 grams

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About this yarn
by Vreseis Ltd
Thread, size
100% Cotton
4200 yards / 454 grams

20 projects

stashed 13 times

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  • Project created: January 2, 2023
  • Finished: February 16, 2023
  • Updated: March 22, 2023
  • Progress updates: 2 updates