I had planned to use lovely Venne cotton for my second warp, but decided to use stash yarn instead going for brown and orange cottolin.

First I made the mistake again (I did so with the previous double weaving warp too) not doubling the amount of threads. I knew the warp was double the amount, I just did not count correctly! I made another batch for the warp and started to dress the loom, only finding out that one half of the warp was upside down, so I had to add an extra warp thread in the middle and discard one at the end, to keep the correct colour sequence for each layer.
That sorted out the warp in the end.
But when I started weaving I did not like weaving with these colours. With the dark weather, they were not uplifting at all. It really was an effort to get on with this warp.
But I did get on and also introduced some other colours as weft, changing the weaving mood completely.
Here are my samples, in each photo, the left side was the front. The photos do not really show the subtle differences what is happening in the weave structures.

Lifting the colour from the under layer and pick up the threads for that row (making a design beforehand). Marian showed us using a knitting needle without knobs for this. Lower the under layer and you just have the pattern threads on your knitting needle. Next weave your top layer with the pattern threads raised. Take out the knitting needle and raise the top colour and take up the threads that are not the pattern on the knitting needle. Weave the under layer next and take out the knitting needle. So, it involves a lot of concentration to read out the correct pattern for the whole sample.






Halfway through I cut the warp so that I could rethread for plain weave & panama.



All these different bindings between the top and bottom layer make interesting weaving that needs more exploring.
The blocks in this sample are showing the panama and plain weave.

This week I had to cut of the warp again so that I was able to take the last woven samples to the course, but I still have some yarn left to do a few more samples.
This has been a learning curve for me: for weaving enjoyment I must go for colours that appeal to me at that moment. May be these colours would have been ok in the Autumn when the trees are changing into lovely yellow/red/brown colours.
For this course we get weaving instructions for the different possibilities and I just work my way through them. With the first warp I did not write enough information about how I had woven my samples resulting in not really knowing what I have done. Not so good when you look back at the samples so with this warp I have really made an effort to write my notes. And also marking them at the selvedge helps to see what I have done afterwards.
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