Purple Twilight: Add soft comfort to your evenings

The Purple Twilight blanket inviting you into its warmth on a snowy day, October 20, 2024.

Suggested use: Entangle yourself in this blanket’s soft, cozy warmth.

Materials: 100% cotton in white and acrylic/polyester/nylon/metallic yarn blend in Dusk and Amaranth (woven December 2023-January 2024)

Dimensions: 30”x58” (76.2×147.3 cm), not including fringe

Care: Hand wash cool or delicate machine wash ~ air dry flat or tumble dry low.

Handwoven on: 4-shaft floor loom

Special weaving technique: “Blanket Tweel” pattern, from Marguerite Porter Davidson’s A Handweaver’s Pattern Book (ninth printing, 1971). I used various treadling sequences to create the different fabric patterns that this weaving draft can create.

Finishing touches: Hemstitching, short fringe, and a wooden ‘handmade with love’ button

Hemstitching Purple Twilight, 2023.12.28.
Warping on Purple Twilight. You can see the six treadles at the bottom of the photo: stepping on these in different combinations create different patterns above on the fabric, 2023.12.28.
Weaving Purple Twilight, 2023.12.28.
The different variations of Blanket Tweel on Purple Twilight, January 1, 2024.
Folded Purple Twilight, October 20, 2024.

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