Question on October's Project Directions

As usual we have an "eager beaver" who has already woven the twill basket for our October Meeting up to the top triple twining. But, she had a question about the directions on page 4 under "Preparing to Rim".

OK, I will try again to be clearer.......

With a normal triple twine you would be using 3 weavers started behind 3 spokes. Working to the right, you would take the leftmost weaver, go over 2 spokes, behind one spoke and out. Total spokes used for one twine repeat - 4 spokes.


So with this pattern you will be using 3 weavers, but each weaver is started under 2 spokes. You will use 6 spokes to start the triple twine....
•Start the first weaver behind 2 spokes (spokes 1 and 2) I would mark both of these spokes with a clip to make the step up easier,
•Start the second weaver behind 2 spokes ( spokes 3 and 4) , and
•Start the third weaver behind 2 spokes (spokes 5 and 6).
You have used 6 spokes so far.

Then take the left most weaver (the weaver started under spokes 1 and 2), and moving to the right, go over 4 spokes (spokes that started the 2nd and 3rd weavers, so spokes 3,4,5 and 6), behind two spokes ( which I guess we could call spokes 7 and 8) and back out.
Total spokes used for one twine repeat - 8.

If you look carefully you can see the difference in the pattern between the normal triple twine done near the wooden base and the triple twine done treating two spokes as one near the rim. Sorry I don't have a better picture, but if you look hard you can just make out the weaver goes over 4 spokes.

Sue found that she had enough room to just do a normal triple twine at the top of her basket, so if you have enough space between the individual spokes just go ahead and triple twine. I found keeping the pairs of two separated the most difficult part of this whole basket, so if you don't want to "treat two spokes as one" and you have the room, just do a plain triple twine. I kind of liked the way the triple twine over the paired spokes pattern looked... whatever you can do, just do it!

Hope that helps. See you next week.