I just love this table runner! The border pattern is Christine Allan's "Paper Dolls" but the center is something I did on my own. The monk's cloth is sage and the yarns used are Caron's Simply Soft in Sunshine, Persimmon, and Bernat's Satin in Rouge.
When you place the Persimmon and Rouge side by side, they don't look like they go together but they do. Faye used those combinations one time a while back and I worried they'd clash but they look perfect together.
I love mixing and matching patterns and I see on the web sites that many other weavers like to do the same. I think it makes your project completely unique.
This is the same pattern, "Flickering Flakes", by Christine Allan but done on sage monk's cloth and using dark green and deep gold yarns. The yarns were remnants so I don't know the shade but I think they were Red Heart yarns.
I'm not sure if I really like this color combination on the sage fabric but I finished it anyway.
One of my favorite combinations is blue yarns on white fabric. It looks so crisp and clean! This table runner was done using Caron's Simply Soft Party in Royal Sparkle and Silver Sparkle. I think adding the bit of Silver Sparkle makes the pattern stand out. The pattern is now one of my favorites, Christine Allan's "Flickering Flakes".
I mentioned before how badly this yarn ravels in use and how I solved that by knotting the ends tightly before weaving. The tiny knot travels through the floats with no problem.
Donna is camera shy so all anybody is going to see is this beautiful Swedish weaving afghan she's 99.9% completed. She had a tiny issue with the edging which will take an hour or so to repair but it's one of my favorite color combinations...blue and white. She used a few different shades of blue (I neglected to get the details) and then incorporated them all in the fringe. She also mixed and matched patterns which is really fun to do because it gives you a truly unique project.
Donna has been working on this afghan very slowly...she thinks 4 years but I don't think it's quite that long. It never matters how long it takes us to complete a project because the joy is in the creation. Donna and Faye meet here at my apartment almost every Tuesday afternoon and we weave a bit and talk a lot. Then we have tea and home made goodies that either Faye or Donna bring. No-one ever expects me to bake.
The afghan is just beautiful and Donna has already started on a lap afghan, this time red monk's cloth and white yarn. I don't know what other colors she'll use but just the red/white combo is lovely. I'll post photos when it's done...hopefully before 2022. LOL!
This is the "Paper Dolls" pattern by Christine Allen that I'm working on now and I just wanted to point out how some people have the ability to create these patterns and some (me) don't. I would never have been able to look at picture #1 and realize that by adding just 2 more rows (picture #2) it would look like little dolls.
I had thought it would be very easy to create my own patterns but I've found that I have very little talent for it...I've done a few. Mostly I start with an existing pattern and then change it to be uniquely my own. That's not the same as starting from scratch and creating a pattern like "Paper Dolls".
So cute!
