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Caramelized Shallots @caramelizedshallots.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026

For comparison: the first photo shows them in the order I posted them. The second shows them in (more or less) order of thickness: 512, 517, 516, 515, 513, D, S. The last one shows off how much room I made in my yarn cabinet! I finished off 3 cones+3 tubes of […] [Original post on ohai.social]

All the towels folded and hanging so you can see them side by side. From a distance the stripes on 515 and the single diagonal are more noticeable than they are up close.

The towels are folded into quarters and stacked so that the thick edge is in view. They mostly, but maybe not perfectly, go from the thinnest to thickest from top to bottom. The bottom one is ridiculously thick and the second from bottom is pretty ridiculous too.

3 empty cones and 3 empty tubes, all of which previously would have held weaving yarn. There are some small scraps of dark pink, light pink and white yarn.

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Caramelized Shallots @caramelizedshallots.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026

Also not numbered, this is the single plain diagonal. This is the most wacky of the lot and totally not practical, but if you like your tea towels more like an art piece, than this draft is for you! Shrinkage was 45% in width and 32% in length. @weaving @fiberarts #weaving #FiberArts #textiles 7/

Close up of weaving on the loom. The fabric looks like it has been put through a waffle iron. There are rows of pink, white and very pale pink stripes. Each stripe is a row of waffle cells. Each cell is outlined in a single dark red thread. There is a small dot from the brown yarn at the bottom of each cell.

Weaving after washing photographed so you can see the cells which are comically deep. You can see by the undulations of the towel itself how thick these cells end up making the fabric.

Front and back of the weaving after washing. On the front, the red single threads dominate. The warp stripes are barely visible. On the back, the brown single threads dominate. Each cell, front and back, is all just wiggly jiggly.

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Caramelized Shallots @caramelizedshallots.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026

This is the double plain diagonal tie-down. Strickler did not give it a draft number. It is most similar to 513, but the cells are deeper and the resulting fabric is deeper. We are also getting more shrinkage here. Shrinkage was 39% in width and 31% in length […] [Original post on ohai.social]

Close up of weaving on the loom. A dark pink stripe is flanked by a white and a pale pink stripe. The pink stripe looks like a column of Xs that are made with double lines. The Xs are in the white and light pink stripe but you can’t really see them.

Photo after washing to show the depth of the cells which is significant. The brown single thread at the bottom barely shows and just looks like a shadow at the bottom.

view of most of the towel after washing looking straight down. The waffle section of the towel has shrunk considerably compared to the basket weave hem at the bottom, so hem is ruffled out.

view of front and back of piece after washing. The cells are very deep and the insides of the cells are steep going down. The front is dominated by the single red threads that divide the stripes, although you can see the stripes between. But the stripes are smushed together due to shrinkage, so they are not as prominent as in most of the previous towels. There is a section on the front that has red outline threads in the weft. The brown threads can barely be seen on the front in the center of each cell. On the back, the cells look more like an egg carton in the depressions are more rounded. The brown single threads show at the top of the ridge lines and undulate up and down.

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Caramelized Shallots @caramelizedshallots.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026

515-Visually, this is very different from the previous ones. The white weft really dominates the look and the warp stripes are much less noticeable. This one used all 16 of my treadles. @weaving @fiberarts #weaving #FiberArts #textiles 5/

Photo of weaving on the loom showing a waffle weave in progress. Each row ow cells is shifted over a bit from the one below like a wall of bricks. Some rows are outlined in red or brown like the warp outline that show in that row. The warp is striped dusty rose, pale pink and white with single threads of red to separate each stripe and a single thread of brown down the center of each stripe.

Photo of weaving after washing to show the depth of the cells are are quite shallow. The vertical stripes are barely noticeable in this one. We do see the section that is outlined in red and brown and looks like rows of bricks. The red and brown single threads only pop out on alternating rows. The rows with the red threads show the cells as the one color of the vertical stripe, but the rows with the brown threads show each cell as half of one colored stripe and half of another.

Front and back of the piece after washing. The front part shows the section that looks like red and brown stacked bricks that includes red and brown weft outlines. We can also see a bit that does not have those colored weft stripes and just has white weft. In the white section, it is easy to visually loose the cells and just see the vertical red and brown threads. On the back, we notice the vertical stripes a bit more. Both red and brown single threads can be seen. The weft edges of the cells are like waves of raised white ridges.

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Caramelized Shallots @caramelizedshallots.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026

516-This one ended up looking and feeling more like seersucker. One thing to note is that in the draft, Strickler calls for 2 adjacent threads on shaft 1. Since my shaft 1 (red) threads were thicker than the pinks and white, I just went with that. (the brown […] [Original post on ohai.social]

Close up of weaving on the loom. The structure shows somewhat of a waffle. It is more like a box within a box, with the outsides of the boxes being raised threads in both warp and weft. The colors are dusty rose pink, pale pink and white warp stripes. There is a weft section that is white and one that is dusty rose.

photo of weaving to show the depth of the cells which are soft and undulating and only moderately deep.

photo showing front and back of the piece. The front shows the colored stripes with the red single thread outline between them. On the front, the single red thread that separates the stripes is raised and the cells dip down to the brown thread at the center which can be seen as a series of dots. On the back, the red cannot be seen, and the brown line is raised. On back and front, the weft ridges look like a series of small waves.

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Caramelized Shallots @caramelizedshallots.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026

513-The cells got quite deep on this one. The floats at the edge of the cells are long and will probably catch with use, but this will still make a great dish towel. @weaving @fiberarts #weaving #FiberArts #textiles

Photo of weaving on the loom. The pattern is dusty rose pink, white and pale pink stripes. There is a single thread of dark red in between each stripe that is somewhat raised from the rest. And a single light brown thread down the middle of each stripe. The structure is best seen in the darker pink stripe where it looks like a double X

same weaving photographed to show the depth of the cells. The cells that are directly in view look like inverted cones. The red outlines of the cells are loose and floaty.

photo showing front and back of weaving. The front shows the stripes as rows of cells with red loose yarns defining the stripes. The cells are deep, you can see the color of the rows and the single thread of brown at the bottom that pulls the eye to emphasize the depth. The back of the piece shows the cell coming down with little indentations the look like a pencil eraser was poked into the fabric to make small indentations running down in rows between the colored stripes. The red threads are not visible, but you can see the brown threads, especially in the white an pale pink stripes. The brown blends into the darker pink stripes and is less prominent.

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Caramelized Shallots @caramelizedshallots.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026

Here's a little🧵before/after photos of the waffle weave project. All drafts come from Strickler's 8-shaft pattern book, so the numbers of the drafts refers to that, in case you are interested. The first is 512. The depth of the cells was among the smallest of […] [Original post on ohai.social]

Photo of weaving on the loom. It is stripes of dusty rose, pale pink and white, with single yarns of red between each stripe and a single yarn of light brown in the middle of each stripe. The structure is most noticeable in the darker pink stripe in which you can see each cell as a white diamond surrounded by a single outline of white tie downs.

Same weaving after washing. It is photographed so you can see the depth of the cells. The edges of the cells pop up a bit, but the cells themselves are somewhat shallow.

Front and back of the weaving. On the front the cells look small. They are outlined in red with the interiors looking somewhat rounded making them look like small rose buds. On the back, the color is more spread out into 4 cells making them appear as larger broader flowers. The red outline does not show at all on the back, but you can see a bit more of the brown that defines the center of the cells.

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Caramelized Shallots @caramelizedshallots.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

Didn't get any knitting done today. Glad someone could make use of the yarn. #CatsOfMastodon

Grey-striped tabby cat using a big ball of yarn as a pillow. She is looking at the camera, a little annoyed that I disturbed her.

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Caramelized Shallots @caramelizedshallots.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

@weaving @fiberarts Just washed those waffle weave towels I was working on. They just came out of the dryer. I'm so tickled by them. I knew they were going to be 3 dimensional, but actually seeing them...I just can't get over it. Still have to hem […] [Original post on ohai.social]

Pile of several handwoven towels in waffle weave. They all look like they have been pressed in a waffle iron. The towels are pink and white stripes, but the stripes can look quite different depending on the type of waffle it is, which is largely how deep the waffle cells are.

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Caramelized Shallots @caramelizedshallots.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

@weaving Super sad news. Marian Stubinetsky has died. One of the great weavers and teachers of our time. She was still actively working and writing as far as I know. I know she was writing a book about mathematics and weaving. She passed yesterday at 79. I […] [Original post on ohai.social]

3 books by Marian stubinetsky. Max 8, Double with a Twist, and , my favorite, Echo and Iris

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Caramelized Shallots @caramelizedshallots.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Look at how deep these cells are already, even though it’s still under tension. This is the single plain diagonal tie-up. Kinda interesting the difference in the single vs the double. (See previous weaving post). That extra tie-down really makes a difference. It […] [Original post on ohai.social]

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Caramelized Shallots @caramelizedshallots.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@weaving @fiberarts Today’s waffle weave is a double point plain diagonal. I like how the dark pink really shows off what is going on. The double X shows the 2 tie downs. My previous loom only had 4 shafts, so you didn’t get much variation in the waffle weaves […] [Original post on ohai.social]

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Caramelized Shallots @caramelizedshallots.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Corris effect scarves finished. I am quite excited by the irridescence of the green scarf. It may be my best yet. There are 2 pairs of complementary colors. (complementary colors can enhance irridescence) Plus the sheen on the green weft adds to the effect, I am […] [Original post on ohai.social]

3 handwoven scarves with the yarns I used to make them. The warp colors are orange, purple and light blue. The weft yarns are dark turqoise, burgundy and dark green. The scarves have the same interlocking diamond pattern with different colors merging into one another, but the overall effect of each one corresponds to its weft color.

close up of the green scarf. It is rumpled on a table. Depending on the direction of the folds, the green weft dominates or the warp colors dominate.

Close up of the burgundy scarf. There is not much irridescence. The orange and blue show up in the diamond shapes. Purple warp and burgundy weft come together to form dark outlines of the shapes.

Close up of the torquoise scarf. There is a little irridescence, but not as much as the green one.

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Caramelized Shallots @caramelizedshallots.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

5th tie-up on this warp. It uses all 16 of my treadles! (That’s a first for me!) it seems more like a traditional waffle than all the previous. The difference here that each row is offset from the one below. I did a few rows outlined in red or brown, which looks […] [Original post on ohai.social]

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Caramelized Shallots @caramelizedshallots.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Tie-up 4. I’m quite liking this rounded thing going on here. I hope that gets accentuated after washing. #weaving #FiberArts #WIP @weaving @fiberarts

Close up of handweaving on the loom. The raised floats increase and decrease in a way that makes the look almost circular.

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Caramelized Shallots @caramelizedshallots.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

I almost forgot to take a photo of this tie-up before I move on to the next one. @weaving @fiberarts #weaving #FiberArts #WIP #Craft

Close up of weaving on the loom. The structure shows somewhat of a waffle. It is more like a box within a box, either the outsides of the boxes being raised threads in both warp and weft. The colors are dusty rose pink, pale pink and white warp stripes. There is a weft section that is white and one that is dusty rose.

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Caramelized Shallots @caramelizedshallots.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

@weaving @fiberarts De-stash project I’ve been trying to use old yarn in every project this year, but the warp on this is all 17+ years old. The rose, pale pink and white are originally from a baby blanket whose owner is now a senior in high school. The red is […] [Original post on ohai.social]

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Caramelized Shallots @caramelizedshallots.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

@weaving @fiberarts Fresh off the loom: Corris effect scarves. Corris is an echo technique that I have played around with a couple of times before. The green one has some serious iridescence and the teal one has a bit too. After wet finishing the iridescence […] [Original post on ohai.social]

3 handwoven scarves messily draped over the back of the loom. They share the same design of multicolored interlocking diamonds, but their base colors are different. One is teal blue, one is burgundy red, one is peridot green.

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Caramelized Shallots @caramelizedshallots.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

@weaving @fiberarts Throw blankets are all finished! Whew! I felt like the finishing process took longer than the weaving (it didn’t, but it felt that way.) Twisting fringe, fixing broken threads, wet finishing, trimming fringe, steaming... It was a lot! The […] [Original post on ohai.social]

Photo of 3 throw blankets draped on a chair. They all have lots of multicolored stripes, each on different colored backgrounds: lilac, oatmeal, jade

close up of the front of one blanket and the back of another. The front shows how the stripes as long floats of color. One the back the stripes are more individual dots on the inside of cells of the background color.

close up looking through a blanket with the light behind showing the lacy effect of the interlacements.

Blankets all neatly folded and stacked with their fringes on one side.

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Caramelized Shallots @caramelizedshallots.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Reading Empires of the Silk Road by Christopher Beckwith and I found this particularly interesting. #TIL

THE WAR CHARIOT
A very light two-wheeled wagon normally drawn by two horses and ridden
by a driver and an archer, the chariot is the world's first complex machine,
and at the same time the first technologically advanced weapon. A true
chariot is so light that an empty one can be lifted with one hand, and its
wheels are so delicate that the chariot cannot be left standing for long. It
has to be placed on a raised axle-rest when not in use to avoid deformation
of the rims, or else the wheels need to be removed and stored separately
from the body. It cannot be used to haul anything heavy or bulky. It can
hold two men at most, and can barely hold those two-in all cases one
must be the driver, and in nearly all historical cases the other person was
an archer. Chariots thus had no practical use other than warfare, hunting,
and, eventually, parades.

I highlighted the bit about how light it was and how delicate the wheels were.

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Caramelized Shallots @caramelizedshallots.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

A new adventure begins! That’s my sample on the back. Current plan is to do the dark green that you see. And then either the lighter green or turquoise and then one of the reds. But I am really having a hard time making decisions. I have enough warp for 3 […] [Original post on ohai.social]

Photo of weaving on the loom. The fabric being woven has a multi-colored diamond pattern.

There is a previously woven sample of the pattern hanging along the back. There are stripes of the various color yarns that I tried out to use for weft.

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Caramelized Shallots @caramelizedshallots.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

@weaving @fiberarts Fresh off the loom: doublewidth throws in integrated plain weave. Still have to fringe, wet finish and brush. Since they are so big, I think I will step on them in the tub to full them. This is a destash project—which, of course, means I had […] [Original post on ohai.social]

Photo of 3 handwoven blankets hanging. They have lots of thin stripes of multiple colors on a lighter background. The background of the one on the left is pale green, the middle is a light neutral and the one on the right is a pale lilac

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Caramelized Shallots @caramelizedshallots.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

[AI slop] So I was thinking of buying a Caydo knitting light, but all their product images are terrible AI slop. And then there is this bullshit that no one bothered to proofread. How do they expect anyone to take them seriously as a company? I just can’t with […] [Original post on ohai.social]

Product graphic entitled “5 Levels of Brightness”

There are 5 AI photo-like images of a piece of knitting each gradually brighter than the next. The first one is labeled “Level” (or maybe Leve1?). The rest, successively are labeled “Leve2”, “Leve3”, “Leve4”, and “Leve5”. Also the light level on 1 and even on 2 are so dark, one has to wonder if there are lights are on at all.

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Caramelized Shallots @caramelizedshallots.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

@weaving @fiberarts The loom has finally been fixed! I hadn’t been able to weave in about 2 months. I was going through withdrawal. I was able to get a new warp wound on today, using my new warping trapeze! I made a few mistakes working out how to use it, but […] [Original post on ohai.social]

Photo of a loom being warped. The warping trapeze is a bar higher than the loom over which the warp goes before being wound onto the loom.

photo of a loom being warped showing the warping trapeze in action. the warp goes over the bar before being wound onto the loom. The warp is weighted to keep the tension even.

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Caramelized Shallots @caramelizedshallots.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

My loom has been out of commission for the last couple of months, but I’m getting the last of the parts today! It’s been rough not being able to weave. I did a lot of mediocre knitting to keep myself occupied. But I did manage to sew this cute bag that is worth […] [Original post on ohai.social]

Photo of tote bag. The outer fabric is greenish blue with splatters of gold, black and purple. The lining fabric is a deep orange with pink flowers. The straps are a very bright gold webbing.

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Caramelized Shallots @caramelizedshallots.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

Sad to report that @KarenStrickholm has died. It was 2 months ago, but I just found out. I found her FB page and saw her relatives’ posts.

Kellie Kay
I have some sad news to report. My sister in law, Karen Strickholm passed away last night in an Albuquerque, NM hospital. Karen has had major health challenges and had a heart attack recently. It was all just too much for her to recover from.
She had so many friends and supporters across the country, we thought this was the best way to get this information out.
There will be a virtual memorial service, date & time TBD. I will post a link once it’s finalized.
Please keep her family in your prayers, especially her Mom, Jean Strickholm.

Jean Strickholm
Sadly Karen passed away April 6 at about 8:45 PM. She was sedated and not in pain. Sazi Mari was with her comforting her. I was with her on Facebook Time.

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Caramelized Shallots @caramelizedshallots.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2025

#weaving @weaving Super excited about how this one turned out. It has great iridescence. Draft is from Miriam Stubenitsky’s book Weaving With Echo And Iris.

Photo of handwoven scarf laying flat on a drying rack so you can see the whole pattern which is diamonds of blue and magenta going diagonally across the scarf with the illusion that the colors are bleeding into the yellowish green sections in between.

Photo of a handwoven scarf wrapped around and hanging down in the manner that one would wear around their neck.

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