... or: playing with little squares.

The patterns shown here belong to the family of squares. They are a special case of shadow weave.

Nested squares M or W One M
Butterfly Hearts Little Ball of Wax
Diamonds Pin Wheel Two Balls

 

These patterns were designed using a special program:

The Square Designer

 

Some of the pattern have been published:

Handwoven of May/June 2002 had an article called "Weaver's Potluck" describing a project of my guild, The Black Sheep Handweavers Guild. We created a handmade book, "A Book of Days", which has two pages for each month. The article shows a picture of the month of April which contains a woven sample of the pattern Butterfly
I also wove several silk scarves using combinations of two patterns. Two of the scarves are featured in
"Handwoven's Design Collection 19" by Interweave Press:

   Scarves and Shawls for All Seasons   - Lavender Shadows Scarves -


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