Thing 22. Weavette Squares
I wove a couple squares on my small Weavette loom from the handspun naturally coloured cotton that I posted a couple days ago (before my eclipse pictures). I love Weavettes because you can make something from small amounts of yarn but the last few rows are a bit tough on handspun. The yarn can get badly abraded, so you want to start with a fairly sturdy yarn. I hadn’t originally planned to ply the yarn, but after producing half a square of brown cheesecloth, I decided that plying would be a good thing. It wasn’t worth setting up my Schacht spinning wheel. I had wound the cotton single into a center-pull ball, so I plied it on a square whorl drop spindle and wove it straight off the spindle (didn’t bother setting the twist of the plying since it was going straight onto the Weavette and I was in a hurry).
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