My first completed weavings of this century!

Well, I got up the courage to weave a couple of inkle belts for Christmas presents for two of my co-workers . They came out pretty well, considering I hadn't touched a loom since the 30th anniversary of the Handweavers Guild three years ago, where I just demonstrated inkle. I haven't actually woven a complete item since the mid-90's.

The designs were dictated by yarn availability. My friends Joyce and Sarah gave me a bagful of assorted DMC embroidery cotton skeins (size 3) with very few duplicates of color. So each color on the warp was limited by the length of the skein. The weft was a 5/2 black perle cotton.



Both belts were done with plain weave - no pickup. The designs were entirely in the threading.