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<\/a><\/p>\nLook how much texture this pattern has while it’s under tension on the loom.<\/p>\n
And here’s how the finished cloth looks after wet finishing. For 5\/2 lace I sett the threads at 12 EPI – experience has shown me that’s what I like for the finished piece. The cotton drapes nicely, and although the floats are a bit long, I think it’s not too fussy to be fully functional.<\/p>\n I’d wound a warp for 3 shawls, knowing I have a lot of 5\/2 eggshell cotton in my stash. As I was weaving the second shawl I was getting to the end of a cone of cotton so pulled out a new cone. Uh oh. Different manufacturer, very different look. Can’t mix those yarns in one piece, at least not if I want to achieve the effect – classy – that I’m looking for. As it was, I ran out of yarn 7 rows before I wanted to – my second end has only 11 rows of plain weave, where the beginning has 18 rows. Due to the length of a pattern repeat, in order to unweave enough pattern to get me 18 rows of plain weave, the shawl would have been almost 6 inches shorter than I wanted. So one shawl has a shorter end. Probably very few people would ever notice, but I know.<\/p>\n For the third shawl, instead of using that different eggshell yarn, I opted for an 8\/2 barber-pole yarn in eggshell & light tan. It’s fine, too. To my eye looks a bit less formal.<\/p>\n I decided to do some beading on that first shawl, the one with 18 rows of plain weave at both ends. <\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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