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Rainbow Crackle Blankets
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blanket #4: summer and winter treadling (O-pairs, polychrome-ish)
blanket #4: summer and winter treadling (O-pairs, polychrome-ish)
more italian style treadling, putting the lightest color first makes a big difference!
more italian style treadling, putting the lightest color first makes a big difference!
Blanket #3: Italian Style treadling with Green, Blue and Grey
Blanket #3: Italian Style treadling with Green, Blue and Grey
blanket #2 - orange/pink -﹥ pink/purple
blanket #2 - orange/pink -﹥ pink/purple
blanket #2 - pink and orange and more orange
blanket #2 - pink and orange and more orange
the dark end of blanket #1
the dark end of blanket #1
blanket #1 underway
blanket #1 underway
beamed without a hitch :)
beamed without a hitch :)
some treadling ideas - classic crackle, overshot, summer and winter
some treadling ideas - classic crackle, overshot, summer and winter
one threading repeat
one threading repeat
rearranging my color palette to find interesting gradients
rearranging my color palette to find interesting gradients
photos above © ggggbbybby
Finished
April 2, 2024
May 6, 2024

Rainbow Crackle Blankets

Project info
Weaving
Tools and equipment
Yarn
24 epi
10/2 Cotton
Natural/Undyed
Hobbii Friends Cotton 8/4 Solids
Louet Euroflax 14/2 Linen
Notes

more JST homework means more fun yarn from hobbii! this is the kind of homework I can get behind lol

Blanket #1:
weft: 8/2 cotton (blue), 8/4 cotton (grey)
treadling: “classic crackle” blocks in order, 12 picks per block, alternating 8/2 & 8/4

Blanket #2:
weft: 10/2 cotton (natural), 8/4 cotton (yellow, orange, pink, purple)
treadling: “traditional polychrome crackle”, 10 picks per block, 2 picks of 8/4 (twill) and one pick of 10/2 (tabby)

’traditional polychrome crackle’ is treadled with a tabby like this:

Block Treadling
A 1 2 A 1 2 B
B 2 3 A 2 3 B
C 3 4 A 3 4 B
D 4 1 A 4 1 B

04-09-2024

all tied on and weaving now! blanket 1 is starting with blue 8/2 and cream 8/4 just to see how it looks. so far it looks good :)

04-13-2024

blanket #1 finished, now to pick colors for the next one. so much harder when I’m not just arranging different shades of grey!

04-13-2024

blanket #2 started - I don’t want to end up with nothing but yellow at the end of the warp so I’m starting with yellow, or what I thought was yellow. it’s really more of a mac and cheese color. I wasn’t sold on it at first but it’s growing on me.

04-18-2024

Blanket #3: Italian style polychrome, blocks in point order, switching color order after each flower/stripe.

  1. Bright (Green), Light (Baby Blue), Dark (Charcoal Grey)
  2. Dark, Light, Bright
  3. Light, Dark, Bright
  4. Light, Bright, Dark

“Italian Style” polychrome blocks are treadled like this (no tabby, 3 pattern wefts)

Block Treadling
A 1 2 3
B 2 3 4
C 3 4 1
D 4 1 2

04-20-2024

Blanket 4 is blues and greens with Summer & Winter. it’s not strictly polychrome (where the 2 pattern yarns are together between the tabbies), it’s polychrome-inspired I guess you could call it. Each pair goes P1, A, P2, B, P2, A, P1, B, the P1s are one color, the P2s are the other color, and the tabbies match the warp.

05-02-2024

Blanket #5 was a little experiment in 4-color polychrome (straight 1234 treadling with color rotations) but I could see I was running low on warp so I only did ~18”. I want to come back to this.

Blanket #6 is back to classic crackle, but in linen this time. I wanted jewel tones and the cotton I had just wasn’t the right colors, but the linen was perfect. weaving was a little slow, my bobbin winding technique needs some work, but even slow weaving gets to the end eventually.

weaving is done! time to cut these off and do some fun laundry.

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Finished
April 2, 2024
May 6, 2024
 
About this yarn
Euroflax 14/2 Linen
by Louet
Lace
100% Linen / Flax
630 yards / 110 grams

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About this yarn
Friends Cotton 8/4 Solids
by Hobbii
Fingering
100% Cotton
175 yards / 50 grams

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  • Project created: April 2, 2024
  • Finished: May 7, 2024
  • Updated: December 9, 2024