janet dawson weaving overshot pricelist

Our departure gate is a traditional overshot threading and our first stops in Week One are the most common variations on the overshot theme: closely related to standard overshot with just a little change here or a little change there.

In Weeks Two through Four we"ll venture farther and farther; by the end of our four week journey, your fabric won’t resemble overshot in the slightest. All without rethreading, resleying or even cutting off -- unless you’re too anxious to see your samples to wait!

Overshot is known as a coverlet structure, but it’s also ideal for placemats, runners, blankets, fashion accessories, table linens, rugs, and much more. Just about anything you want to weave can be done in overshot.

Our class project is a series of coordinated placemats and table runners, woven in inexpensive, easy to get materials you may already have in your stash. You’ll choose from three different threadings composed of classic overshot motifs, then treadle them in star fashion, rose fashion, and many other ways.

Don’t feel like weaving placemats, runners, OR samples, or don’t have a loom available? No problem! You can still participate in the class without weaving at all. The lessons, videos, Q&As, and pen and paper exercises will help cement your understanding of overshot even if you don’t take it to the loom right away.

Don’t have that kind of loom? No worries! You can still read, watch, listen, and do all the pen and paper exercises. Your deeper understanding of overshot will be beneficial when you do have a loom to use it on or decide to explore how to weave it on the loom you already have on your own.

You and Janet are amazing! What an incredible gift you are giving us with this structured class on color. I could have never figured it out on my own, with just trial and error.

I"ve won countless awards for my work - my handwoven wedding dress is in the permanent collection of The Henry Ford Museum, my Kodachrome Jacket was featured as the Garment Challenge winner on the cover of Handwoven, and I"ve written over thirty articles for some of the most respected weaving magazines today. I"ve taught online courses for thousands of weavers.

Truthfully, I love to help mold happy, confident weavers - sometimes even more than I love weaving myself…and I’m pretty obsessed with weaving! But helping others like you understand and enjoy all parts of weaving – project planning, loom prep, as well throwing the shuttle – is my favorite part of the whole business. I can’t wait to meet you!

Weaving is the perfect solo hobby… But after hours (days! months!) alone at the loom, it can sometimes feel stagnant and lonely. And with social distancing in effect, it can feel even lonelier.

We had almost 6,000 participants in the live Weave-Along - so come on in - the water’s warm! Between our super-active Facebook community and course materials, it’s sure to jazz up your weaving routine!

Thank you so much, Tien and Janet. This weave-along has been a blast and oh, the things I have learned. And sharing the journey with others has been inspirational and encouraging. What a treasure trove of creative juices flowing!

(The one exception is the Color Editor lessons - the Color Editor is the property of Handweaving.net, so if we have to shut down the platform, the Color Editor will not be included in the downloads.)

When I was a new weaver, I didn’t realize that it was supposed to be hard to design your own project. Oddly enough, I credit this to my love of cooking. I learned early on how to tweak recipes to make them my own, and soon after started creating my own. I took the same approach to weaving and began by taking patterns from Handwoven and adjusting them here and there. Before long, I was off and designing from scratch. ~

For those of you out there who are ready to make the step from weaving patterns to adjusting them to fit your own needs, but are worried about the math, shrinkage, or other issues we have got the web seminar for you! In her pre-recorded web seminar

Janet Dawson will teach you how to take a published project and make it uniquely yours. Janet sat down with us and answered a few questions about herself and her weaving. Be sure to check out her webinar! --Christina

I"m from the Seattle area but moved to Sydney, Nova Scotia (aka Nova Snowtia), Canada over 20 years ago. Sydney is on Cape Breton Island, and has a rich history of handweaving handed down by its Scottish settlers.

When I moved to Sydney, I didn"t have a visa to work or go to school and didn"t have much else to do, so my mother-in-law suggested I go to the Cape Breton School of Crafts to meet other knitters. I did, but was too cheap to pay $50 on a knitting class when I already knew how to knit, so I took a weaving class instead. I wasn"t particularly excited about it, but my grandmother had had a loom once and I figured, what the heck!

A year after I started weaving, my mother learned how to weave as well--she says she had to because it was all I could talk about and she wanted to be able to participate in the conversation. Both of us learning and then teaching the craft at the same time kept us involved in each other"s lives even though we were a continent and an international border apart. My favourite classes are the ones Mom and I teach together in her studio.

Those are...not the same things. My weaving studio is my basement, and I don"t like to weave or work alone. I spend most of my at-loom time in other people"s studios.

My mathy pattern brain. I see numbers and patterns everywhere. Weaving structures make sense to me intuitively. I can spot a treadling mistake from 50 paces, and weaving drafts feel like my native tongue.

My mechanical brain. A skills aptitude test I took with my PSATs in high school suggested I should be a mechanic if I didn"t go to university. My SAT scores suggested I go to university, but being able to see how parts fit together--how threads form cloth, how looms operate, how the structure of yarn affects the fabric produced--is a skill I use more often than my university education, and is a huge asset in weaving.

I like to let my husband choose the soundtrack. I like it even better when he hangs out nearby and plays video games so I can listen to what he"s playing while I"m weaving.

I also like to listen to books on tape while weaving, but if they"re interesting and the treadling isn"t pretty simple, that"s a dangerous combination.