Jo Sharp DK wool

Lines and Bars from Weave It Magic Squares, and its variation, Bars and Squares from Weave-It, Weave In, are pretty easy to adapt to other loom sizes. Be aware that the “bars” portion of the design has floats on the back, so you wouldn’t want to stack more than three bars at a time. Or maybe you would! What could be done with those floats? I leave it to you WALers to create something interesting using that concept…

I’m increasing the pattern shorthand this week. Don’t know about you, but when I see line after line of U’s and O’s, my eyes just glaze over and I don’t even want to try the pattern. (Which is why I prefer graphs, but most of YOU seem to prefer text.) Knitters know that anything in parenthesis is going to be repeated and that’s what you’ll see here from now on.

O=Over
U=Under
W=plain weave

LINES & BARS
Wrap three continuous warp layers and measure yarn for needleweaving.
Weave as follows—
Row 1: plain weave
Row 2: W6; U3; W22
Row 3: plain weave
Row 4: repeat Row 2
Row 5: (U1, O3)x3; W19
Row 6: W6; U3; W10; ( O3, U1)x3
Rows 7-10: plain weave
Row 11: rep Row 6
Row 12: rep Row 5
Row 13: rep Row 2
Row 14: plain weave
Row 15: rep Row 2
Row 16: plain weave

On Weave-It, Weavette and Loomette looms, always go OVER the loop of yarn that’s outside the pins. That loop isn’t mentioned in any written pattern. It’s a “given”.

BARS & SQUARES
Wrap three continuous warp layers and measure yarn for needleweaving.
Weave as follows—
Row 1: plain weave
Row 2: W2; U3; (O1, U3)x2; W18
Row 3: W20; U3; O1; U3; W4
Row 4: rep Row 2
Row 5: (U1, O3)x3; W8; U3; O1; U3; W4
Row 6: W2; (U3, O1)x2; U3; W6; (O3, U1)x3
Row 7: (U1, O3)x3; W19
Rows 8-10: plain weave
Row 11: rep Row 6
Row 12: rep Row 5
Row 13: rep Row 6
Row 14: rep Row 3
Row 15: rep Row 2
Row 16: plain weave