Weaving with crochet thread?

Submitted by Raine59 on

I'yard a new weaver simply a long-fourth dimension thread crocheter so I have lots of (cotton) crochet thread, more often than not #10 but some #20.  I'g wondering how it would work as weaving thread.  Has anyone tried it and how does it compare to the cotton weaving threads?

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Posted on Sun, 04/06/2014 - 17:12

I'm adequately new, likewise, but

I'm fairly new, also, simply weavers utilize perle cotton. Is this,  that, or the smaller stuff like a fairly strong thread? (Sort of like a buttonhole thread?) I'd recall it would weave fine but might be a little stiff at starting time. Information technology would probably soften a niggling when washed.

Posted on Sun, 04/06/2014 - 18:36

non perle cotton

I'm not talking about perle cotton, but regular cotton crochet thread (similar Aunt Lydia'south for example), frequently referred to every bit bedspread weight thread.

Posted on Sun, 04/06/2014 - 19:x

Crochet cotton will produce a

Crochet cotton will produce a adequately stiff textile, more often than not speaking. If that stiffness suitable for the purpose get ahead. Y'all might want to weave a sample outset to check you lot like the results and if non, make some adjustments.

Cheers
Kaura

Posted on Sun, 04/06/2014 - 21:08

Not my favorite.

I used some donated Aunt Lydia'southward crochet cotton for a baby blanket and wasn't so happy with the feel of the results. Besides, after just one washing, it was pilling a flake. Weaving yarns tend to exist spun differently than knitting (and I assume crochet yarns), so that may account for the divergence in the paw of the textile. Side by side time, I might consider using that yarn for runners or rugs.

Hither's a link to that project if you want to see what it looked similar and how information technology turned out:

http://www.weavolution.com/project/emerge-orgren/charity-baby-blanket

Posted on Mon, 04/07/2014 - 09:54

It's fine for a thicker

It'southward fine for a thicker runner or cover for a bedside stand. No so bang-up for a blanket or scarf or towel, a little stiff. Fabricated heavy runners, worked there just fine. Made some dish towels, a niggling heavy there, only does a very skilful job drying. I utilize them dish towels every solar day. Virtually people like finer material for dish towels, some even boot on viii/ii not merc cotton wool there. #10 crochet merc cotton has the same sett as 8/ii in my feel. I have used it in warp cord weave with heavier cotton padding and worked well in that location. Merely something you have to sample and experiment with. That crochet cotton is the most expensive style to purchase yarn to unless you find no label lots in Mardens.

Posted on Sun, 04/13/2014 - 00:07

Warping & winding bobbins with Aunt Lydia

I have used it for place mats and like projects that practice not need to be soft.  The yarn is satisfactory for that.  It is modestly priced and has several color choices.  It is widely bachelor and you lot don't have to look for information technology to come in the postal service.  What drives me crazy about information technology is trying to air current a warp or wind a bobbinoff the ball.  It's very hard to do smoothly.  If you don't put it in a container with a superlative, the ball flies around.  Even in a container, information technology is subject to sudden jerks and changes in tension.  Simply use it for exercise projects, and it will motivate y'all to save up for skillful yarn!

Karen

Posted on Fri, 04/18/2014 - 01:02

Crochet thread warp

I am working with a group of back strap weavers from Myamar who use cotton crochet thread for their warp. They say information technology is similar to the warp they are accustomed to from Thailand. They produce firm, beautiful runners and mats with it on their looms made from reclaimed wood and pvc pipe...

I am looking for a reasonably priced substitute for them. 8/2 cotton is what I have in mind.

Posted on Fri, 04/eighteen/2014 - 01:04

Crochet thread warp

Should mention they also use it for weft. They fix the warp nearly 24 epi.

Posted on Fri, 04/xviii/2014 - 09:xxx

I've used information technology at 24 epi

I've used it at 24 epi myself. The diameter is shut to viii/2. The crochet is x/3 and mercerized. And it is readily availabe but limited color choices. Walmart merely carries, white, natural, dark crimson, pastal greenish, delft blue, and light pink. All I ever see and not large quanties except for white and natural on larger skeins. Information technology is more than expensive to buy these small assurance than to get good 8/2 from a weaver's supply place. Around hither it'due south $9 for iii - 350 thou balls. Mardens has bags of 3 - 300 yard assurance a little cheaper, again non big color selection but they do have a lot of it. Mardens is a disbelieve/salvage shop in Maine.

What Walmart did when they first came to town was bear the local wool milled here. There was another identify that had carried information technology, but Walmart out priced them then they quit. Then promptly afterwards that Walmart stopped carrying the wool. I get mine from a local dealer, that is cheaper than anyone and you can purchase all the factory wools there. The other places you lot merely get one choice, Heritage, that'south it and very modest quantities.

A small yarn store tried to make a go last yr, just that was doomed to fail from day 1. They were never in the shop and their hours were odd.

Posted on Fri, 04/xviii/2014 - 12:xiii

Sorry for this rant, but have to vent...

ReedGuy , here in the Southeast, we grow cotton wool, and lots of it. Just the bulk of cloth mills accept been put out of business. US grown cotton at present goes overseas and comes dorsum to us as overpriced thread at Walmart.
Your experience of they moving into a community, displacing local small businesses, and then raising prices and lowering option is a mutual business practice for them hither in GA.

When the SuperCenter came to my pocket-sized boondocks, nosotros had three textile stores. There was a long tradition in our community of children wearing cute handmade clothing, lovingly sewed by mothers and grandmothers.

Walmart sold fabric $1 a yard and sewing notions. Within three years all local stores had airtight, and one year later Walmart discontinued selling fabric and used the flooring infinite for more ready to habiliment coming from China. At present the nearest fabric supply is l miles away. Women no longer sew for their families like they once did, and purchase clothes at Walmart....our local sewing machine repair store as well burned to the basis in a mysterious fire and has not been rebuilt :(

The express colors of the Crochet thread available to these weavers does make for some peculiar textiles to say the least! Makes them hard to sell and limits the weavers' abilities to produce traditional patterns, which are in demand now.

Will cheque out the sources you lot mention, and expect for other weaving supply sources for 8/2 cotton. That is not something I have personally used, only have seen it on line.

Lamentable for the rant!

Posted on Fri, 04/18/2014 - 13:28

Here's my solution

I started hand dyeing crochet thread several years ago equally I liked to make doilies and couldn't always find the colors I want.  I ended upwardly with then much I started selling it on Ebay.  Anyway, Walmart (at least where I live in central Texas) sells Carmine Heart Archetype size x in the large balls at yard yards for $3.77 plus tax. That's the reason I posted this question to brainstorm with, because crochet thread is so much cheaper than weaving thread.  Just as I am only getting into weaving, I have bought some 8/ii unmercerized and some 10/2 and 5/2 perle cotton, all in white, and plan to dye information technology myself.   I haven't tried the crochet thread all the same but plan to before long. I will see  how it compares to some of the cotton wool weaving threads.

Posted on Friday, 04/18/2014 - 15:15

I think you'll discover that y'all

I think y'all'll find that you volition exist quite express past what y'all tin weave with crochet cotton. It volition not take the hand of good weaving cotton. You can notice large cones of weaving yarn online a lot cheaper than what Walmart sells. If you buy small 1/3 - 1/2 lb spools so no, they will exist pricey.

I for one never purchase clothes at Walmart. 'Dickies' work cloths for instance are now all made off shore and they do not fit a Canadian homo. Thier sizes are small and less room than equivilent size Canadian made. I have had this conversation with a lot of fellows and nosotros all buy 'Big Bills', made in Canada.