Ruth Dabritz Legacy Project – Weaving 102: The Next Project – September 2026
Welcome to Real Weaving, where you have to find your own yarn 🙂
In this class you will learn:
- Some twill theory
- How to make a warp color order chart
- Warping with 2 bouts; how to split the warp count into two
- Discussion of symmetric vs asymmetric warps
- How to wind a multiple color warp (cut and tie) – Warping itself is unchanged except for the color changes
- Don’t need a counting string, really – the color changes keep your count.
- Threading a multiple twill pattern
- How to follow a commercial project
- How to read ALL the instructions
Materials
- Textbook (required): Next Steps in Weaving, by Pattie Graver. Project: Scarf of Lucky Colors, Pg 35
- Yarns: provided by the student. Yarns must NOT be cotton OR mohair OR linen
The book can be purchased by you separately, or you
Some suggested yarns
| Yarn | Sett | Sources (not exhaustive) |
| Bamboo 8/2 | 24 | Eugene Textile Center, Yarn Barn, Meridian Mill House, Webs |
| Tencel 8/2 | 24 | Eugene Textile Center, Yarn Barn, Meridian Mill House, Webs |
| 2/18 Jaggerspun Zephyr (discontinued, but you could get lucky) | 24 | Other peoples stashes |
| Cashmere/Silk 2/32 nm lace weight, doubled | 24 | Colourmart, $29/cone. UK, so shipping and tariffs. Also must be doubled. |
| Maharaja Silk | 24 | Georgia Yarn Company, $60 gets 3 – 100g cones; sufficient for this project |
| Wool, alpaca, silk, cashmere blends, 2/14, or lace weight | 20 | Specific yarns below |
| Mora 2/20 wool | 24 | ETC; might not be next to skin for sensitive individuals, many colors in stock, fulls nicely |
| Alpaca/Silk lace yarn 2/14 | 20 | Valley Yarns (yarn.com, which is Webs) |
| Luminance Lace (silk) | 20 | Knit picks, 439 yds/50g |
| Alpaca Cloud Lace | 20 | Knit picks 440 yds/50g |
| Malabrigo Silkpaca | 20 | Various yarn shops Beautiful stuff 420yds/50g |
| Malabrigo Lace (Merino) | 20 | 470yds/50g |
Note that the lace-weight yarns need to be sett at 20 epi. Please let us know if you will be using a yarn with a 20 epi sett, so we can provide a 10 dent reed.
You will need 3 different colors.
- 2 lights, each 230 yards to be used as weft
- 1 dark, 660 yards to be used as both warp and weft
Preparation
If the yarn is skeined, please have it wound into balls before class. Let us know if you need help with that. Also, please bring a bowl, bag, box or something else to keep the yarn from escaping when winding the warp.
Leader
This class will be led by Lynne Fitzsimmons.