Well, today is the last day of Weave Through Winter. The prompt today was to use leftover strips and I did. I wove 4 different (favorite) designs then wove them together into a single piece. It is a bit of a hodge podge, but that’s the point.
Weaving Day 27
I have been weaving and making cubes this month with Paula Krieg and today I combined the two into this woven tetrahedron. I got the pattern from Paper Matrix, a wonderful site with many 3-D woven objects, cut files and directions for how to put them together. It is a wonderful rabbit hole to enter.
Here is the tetrahedron I wove from ombre papers. I love the interplay of colors and the relatively simple weave. I recommend adding to the tab edge before cutting (I made it .5 inches instead of the printed .25 inches). Otherwise, it was a mostly straightforward weave. Definitely glue as you go though.
Weaving Day 26
Today’s weave is simple, but interesting visually. I took a security envelope, cut along the diagonal design into nested diamonds then cut a heart and wove it into the alternating strips. I cut the heart in half to create a more dynamic composition.
Weaving Day 25
I tried weaving the swirl from yesterday only this time I made the warp and weft both swirls. They mirror each other and create a nice interference pattern.
Weaving Day 24
I was a bit less ambitious today using polar coordinate and regular graph paper. I think there is something here, but I need to explore it later with different papers.
Weaving Day 23
Well, this one took a long time (3 hours) to weave because I wanted a very specific effect. That meant cutting the papers in very specific ways, by hand. I like the overall effect though some of the weaving strips were a bit thinner than they should have been leaving gaps here and there.
I used a security envelope with a hexagon design as well as a vintage ledger page for the strips. The ledger paper was cut in 3 ways so that the red and blue lines would match up as I wove the triaxial weave together. The hexagon design was carefully cut so that it would form the hexagons again when woven.
Weaving Day 22
Today is Cat Day in Japan because saying 2-2-2 sounds like a cat meowing in Japanese. It is also my brothers’ (they are twins) birthday as well as my Mother-in-Law’s. So it is an important day!
We are finally in the last week of Weave Through Winter and today the instructions for the Triaxial Weave go up in the classroom so it is time for me to go crazy weaving tumbling blocks (quilting term) or any of the other patterns you can create with this 3 directional weaving technique.
Weaving Day 21
I took a picture yesterday of some ice in my driveway and used it for weaving today as it looks like a spiral and that is what we are doing this week.
I printed the image both landscape and portrait so that it would be two different sized. Then I cut along the black lines (as best I could) to create the spiral. Weaving two spirals together is no joke, but I like the results.
Weaving Day 20
Today was a quick weave using polar coordinate graph paper. I used the curved lines on the paper as my cut lines then wove the two halves together.
Weaving Day 19
Today is the day I am most happy about. I was making a weave, which I thought would be interesting and by the time I was finished I realized it was the kind of weaving I have been trying to achieve all month. I can’t believe that curved warp and weft strips turned into this!
Weaving Day 18
Today’s papers are vintage D & D hexagon graph paper and some notebook paper that has a recipe for orange ice cream (from Nigella Lawson) and the start of a poem on one side and some tea staining on the other. The ice cream sounds good! I cut a spiral into the notebook paper then cut circular wedges from the graph paper with random edges that follow the hexagon shapes. It turns out you need an odd number of wedges to avoid the first and last piece weaving the sample over under pattern. Needless to say this one although quite simple looking took a long time to create.
Vintage (1980’s) D & D graph paper for creating dungeons and other maps.
Archimedes spiral downloaded from the Web and cut freehand into the paper.
Weaving Day 17
To make this target weave, I used polar coordinate graph paper and cut along the nested circles. The wedges are made of ledger paper, but randomly inserted so that the lines don’t match up.
Weaving Day 16
Today’s weave is a simple one, though weaving into the shapes was a bit of a challenge. I like the way the two graph papers interact with each other.
Weaving Day 15
I am really enjoying exploring what I can do with the Ouroboros weaving style where the warp strips fold and become weft strips as well. This time I tried the triaxial weave. I did it once with a small number of warp strips (9). I wanted more of the weaving pattern so I got a larger sheet of graph paper and did 22 strips. I like the subtle patterns this weave creates, but I want to try doing it with colored paper as well.
22 strips weave
9 strip weave
Weaving Day 14
I am doing more explorations with the Ouroboros weave from yesterday.
When I first made this weave, I noticed that the strips line up when folded over to use as weft. That means you can cut them irregularly and they will still line up when turned 45 degrees to weave into the remaining warp strips.
Here is my wavy strip weave. Image one and two are the two sides of the finished piece. 3-5 are the stages (in reverse order) of the weaving process.
Weaving Day 13
Sometimes I am sitting around with some paper in front of me and my fingers just start playing. The result today is a weaving that only uses the warp strands. If you fold them, starting at the top left or right, they will lay across the other warp strips and then you can weave them in. I tried a bunch of variations and I am sure there are more. So much fun!
Weaving Day 12
This weave used lined notebook paper cut very carefully on the diagonal so that it would form the diamond pattern. I have made this one before, but I wanted to see if I could be more precise with the measuring and cutting so that the pattern stays as true as possible. If only paper was truly 2-D the pattern would be perfect (or close anyway).
I always make a 3-D weaving in Weave Through Winter. This year I decided to make one of my spiral boxes from the weave. I wish the pattern showed up a bit better in the finished box, but it was worth trying and that’s what I love about making things.
Weaving Day 11
Today was about getting back to weaving with graph paper. I cut the warp diagonally across the paper and the weft horizontally to see how the lines would interact. I like how the dark lines get broken up and zigzag across the weaving. I also added a frame which helps contain all that is happening here.
Weaving Day 10
I got a bit behind with my daily posts here. I blame getting so into weaving and what is happening in the class with my fellow weavers. So this is a catch up post.
Day 10: This is the same pattern as days 8 and 9 only this time I created a cut pattern to follow for the warp and weft (they are the same just rotated 90 degrees). You can try it yourself.
Weaving Day 9
Here is the promised alternate to yesterday’s weaving. It turns out that there are many ways to play with yesterday’s weave because I actually wove it as 4 pieces. You can see all the variations below.
Variation on the weave from yesterday.
Variations on Day 8 weaving.
