Asymmetric Woven Napkins // Design by Kathryn Steely
Designed to explore asymmetric plaids, the Picnic Plaid napkins pattern creates four soft and generous napkins, perfect for a breezy meal al fresco. This pattern is ideal for colour play and stash busting.
The pattern is free for School of SweetGeorgia members.
SKILL LEVEL
- Beginner
FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
- each napkin: 16 ½" / 42 cm wide x 18" /46 cm long, including ¼" / 0.5 cm of fringe per end
YARN
- Warp and Weft: 4 cones Gist 8/2 Beam (1680 yd / 1536 m per 8 oz / 227 g cone; 3360 ypp / 6766 mpkg; 100% Unmercerized Organic Cotton), one cone each in: Cobalt (A), Jam (B), Pistachio (C), Mist (D)
EQUIPMENT & TOOLS
- Loom: 4-shaft loom with a minimum 21" / 53 cm weaving width
- Tools: 10-dent reed (sleyed 2 threads per dent), boat shuttle with 4 bobbins.
STRUCTURE
- Weave Structure: twill
- Warp Length: 3 ⅓ yd / 3 m (this includes 27" / 68.5 cm of loom waste, with 10" / 25 cm for take-up)
- Warp Ends: 400 ends, includes 2 floating selvedges
- Warp Sett: 20 epi / 8 epcm
- Weft Sett: 20 epi / 8 epcm
- Width in Reed: 20 ¼" / 51.5 cm
- Woven Length: weave 20 ½" / 52 cm for each of four napkin = 82" / 208 cm total length
This pattern is free for School of SweetGeorgia members. SweetGeorgia Yarns wants to ensure you have everything you need for your crafting success, so be sure to check out our growing library of fibre-craft tutorials and workshops at www.schoolofsweetgeorgia.com.
