Here’s a cheery weave for spring, as the bees get to work filling their combs with honey: the structure of “Alladorf 60 Hexes” is based on a fragment of woolen fabric woven over a thousand years ago, with a mix of long and short floats that draw up when bound off to produce a fun hexagonal design.
The long floats produce a small but very thick potholder, with the three different colors separated onto distinct layers to create a lot of texture.
There are 19- and 27-peg charts posted in our catalog.
Step-by-step photos are attached below, woven from the middle out as Piglet usually does:
Beautimus! I’ve been thinking about tweaking one of my honeycomb patterns for the floor loom down to a Pro potholder. No need now, plus I don’t need the brain drain – got to keep this FUN!
That is so nice of you to show step-by-step photos! I like your colors also and thank you, because for a beginner with poor eyesight is very hard to learn on some of these patterns that are so tiny which most of the books are. So the step-by-step pictures are fantastic and it was really thoughtful of you 🙂
Beautiful pattern! Looks great on an 18×18 peg loom as well, and the long, doubled-up floats on the back are the perfect size to tuck knitting needles, weaving hooks, etc. to keep my supply bag better organized!
Hello, are you doing any manipulation of the loops to get the non perpendicular lines?Or will this nice effect just show up once bound off?
Donna — the hexagon shapes form naturally once you bind off, due to the way the tension of the other loops tugs them.
It’s kind of magical, and certainly took us by surprise the first time we saw it happen!