Weaving Patterns With Pick Up Sticks

This class assumes that you have the ability to warp and dress your own loom without assistance and are reasonably comfortable doing so.

Weaving patterns with pick up sticks.

Using a pick up stick to weave 3 1 lace and 5 1 lace. To weave a warp float place the heddle in the up position and slide the stick towards the heddle. 3 1 lace insert pattern stick 1 up 1 down repeated across 1. Pick up sticks are simple and brilliant at the same time.

With a pick up stick you can easily pass over more than one warp end to create lace spot weaves honeycomb and other interesting patterns. Weaving patterns using pick up sticks this is a follow on workshop for those who have previously attended weave a scarf in a day or for anyone familiar with using a rigid heddle loom. These 2 shafts allow you to work plain weave which is a perfectly lovely weave structure on it s own but most weavers will begin with plain weave and then want to increase their own skills and their loom s capabilities. To weave a weft float you place the heddle in neutral and tip the stick up on its edge so just the yarns on the stick are up.

The yarns are picked up behind the heddle and the stick is left in the warp to be used when the weaver wants to use it to create floats breaking the over under pattern of plain weave. Pick up sticks can be used to create simple patterns for all over texture or to create complex designs that may travel or cover only part of the weaving surface. Using a pick up stick is an extremely versatile creative and fun way of introducing pattern and texture in your weaving. In addition to the yarns in the holes being up the stick is also lifting up the threads that are on the pick up stick up.