Hello Sunshine Pillow

Hello Sunshine Pillow // weaving pattern for 4-shaft looms by Felicia Lo

Weave this beautiful block-weave structure with the Hello Sunshine Pillow pattern. You will weave two pillow tops to be sewn together with commercial fabric backs. 

In this project, Felicia chose to weave traditional crackle (i.e. in the manner of overshot) meaning that we weave with a tabby pick in between every pattern pick. You can weave 4 pattern picks as I have here, or choose your treadling pattern. This warp includes 20" / 50.8 cm of warp for sampling. 

This pattern is free for the School of SweetGeorgia member and can be found on the first lesson, 0.1 Weaving Crackle Materials page. 

Please see our Weaving Crackle on 4-Shafts course for more detailed instructions and resources on how to weave Crackle. You will need an All-Access membership to the School of SweetGeorgia to download the pattern PDF for free. As a member, you can explore over 100 courses on weaving, dyeing, spinning, knitting and more! All-Access membership also grants you access to the community forums; get support from course instructors and have conversations with fellow members in the forums threads or one of our many virtual meet-ups

SKILL LEVEL

Intermediate

FINISHED MEASUREMENTS

each finished pillow measures approximately 16 3 / 4" / 42.5 cm wide x 16 3 / 4" / 42.5 cm long

YARN

Warp and Weft (Ground): 3 cones Venne 8/2 Unmercerized Cotton (710 yd / 650 m per 3.5 oz / 100 g cone; 100% Organic Cotton) in Linen White. You can substitute with 2 cones of Maurice Brassard 8/2 Cotton or Beam 8/2 Organic Cotton.

Weft (Pattern): 2 skeins SweetGeorgia Yarns Flaxen Silk Fine (480 yds / 439 m per 4 oz / 115 g skein; 65% Silk, 35% Linen). In this sample, we used "Pineapple" which can be substituted with "Papaya".

EQUIPMENT & TOOLS

Loom: 4-shaft loom at least 24" / 61 cm wide

Tools: 10-dent (sleyed 2 per dent), (2) boat or stick shuttles, bobbins and bobbin winder (if you are using a boat shuttle), reed hook, paper or warp sticks for beaming the warp (depending on how you dress your loom), scissors, measuring tape, yarn needle

STRUCTURE

Weave Structure: crackle

Warp Length: 2 3/ 4 yd / 2.5 m (includes 30" / 76.2 cm for loom waste, take-up, shrinkage, and approximately 20" / 50.8 cm for sampling)

Warp Ends: 411 ends, plus 2 floating selvedges = 413

Warp Sett: 20 epi / 7.9 epcm

Weft Sett: 40 ppi / 15.7 ppcm

Width in Reed: 20 3/ 4" / 52.7 cm

Woven Length: 22" / 55.9 cm per pillow top