A Tote Ta-Dah! - August 23, 2013

Off loom my weaving is about 8 x 41”, enough for two pieces to cover front and back of tote, plus a small sample for the weaving project notebook.

Great Tote! - can hold many skeins of yarn. YAY!

Tote Bag Update - August 9, 2013

Weaving finished! Moving on to the sewing machine.

Since I have some of the bear fabric left, first I did a little inside pocket as a reminder of how it looked before I sliced it into ‘rags’.

Salvaging A Tote Bag - July 17, 2013

Picked up a new black and red tote bag for just 50 cents at a tag sale, but it’s got this Big ‘LAS Links’ Logo on it.

Jazzturtle’s Saori woven tote bag project gave me the idea of sewing panels of handwoven yardage onto a purchased tote bag.

My Warp - 8 epi - 9” wide in heddle with one doubled strand on each selvedge
Figured a 10% draw-in
Hoping for 8 1/4” wide fabric

One and a Half Yards Long, figured 20% take-up, 13” loom waste, and a 6” safety margin

A one-inch stripe of black crochet cotton (#?, thicker than #10), the red is an unknown cotton-ish yarn (I suspect a blend) of aprox. the same weight

My Weft - 8 ppi
Alternating 1” wide strips, folded in half, of cotton quilt fabric and the red yarn
Picked the fabric because of the shade of red, not because of the bears! lol
Pattern - plain weave

Woven Fabric is coming out 8 1/4” wide - Perfect!
That’s 10% draw-in just as I had expected, although it would be more if not for the bit of rag strip that extends beyond the selvedge warp thread on both sides