Joan Beebe
I was never quite sold on the colors I chose for warp, but in the end I was happy with the results. I enjoyed seeing the interplay of colors on the loom, but was most happy with the various combinations after washing and drying and seeing the texture emerge, too. I felt like I ended up with towels that have a madras look. I’ve already gifted them. 😁
I’m sure I will be revisiting huck lace in the future, maybe not for towels, but for something where a little texture is needed.
As always, Rosalie presented a great workshop!

Shula Bernard
I selected autologous colors with a complement for the stripe.  This was my first attempt at weaving lace so I followed the instructions for the warp.  In hindsight, I would have added another column of huck lace so the towel or napkins would be wider.  I wove five different Huck patterns in each row for the first piece so I could play around with the patterns and tie ups.  The resulting piece is too narrow for me to use as a towel but it’s fine as a sample.  I used the same colors and same threads for the warp and the weft .I cut the sample off the loom and decided to weave small napkins using the same fiber for the weft but using different colors.  The napkins are colorful and fun.  This was a terrific class;  I learned a lot and feel comfortable designing lace with the tools provided.

Below is a close up of the huck design I used for the napkins.  I call it – hashtag

Beth Harvat
I learned a lot from the workshop, never having done huck lace before.  Can’t wait to try it out on my 8 harness loom.  The 4-harness Baby Wolf that I used did not beat as hard as I am used to; consequently the towels turned out very soft, but 3-4 inches longer than expected. Also, the cotton I used had a slub and that might have made them pack less dense. The different patterns I used also made some difference in length as you can see from my pictures.  One other thing – I picked colors that I loved together and blended well, but really, the huck lace shows up best with more contrasting colors – see my detail pictures of one pattern across colors.

Deb Silar
Rosalie’s methods for designing motifs and woven pieces was mind expanding and the design process proved to be addictive.  The towels had 5 motifs, each with a different weft for each section.   When changing tie-ups became a little tiresome, I wove each of the 5 napkins in its own motif repeated three times but the weft colors varied and included colors not in the original warp but in related hues.  Pieces transformed from the design plan to the woven pieces on the loom and then again after washing and was full of surprises at each step.

Janice Kohl
I thoroughly enjoyed Rosalie Neilson’s online Huck Lace Workshop. She taught us about both 4-shaft and 8-shaft Huck.  I had decided to warp my 4-shaft loom for the workshop and after the first session I was thinking I had made a mistake to not use my 8-shaft loom.  There seemed to be so many design possibilities for the 8-shaft loom, many more than for the 4-shaft. However, I couldn’t be happier with my 4 shaft results.  Well, maybe I would be happier if I had put on a wider, longer warp, but between the color interactions and the intrinsic beauty of the lace designs themselves as they emerged after weft finishing the cloth, I am thrilled with the results. I may never feel the need to try an 8-shaft version.

I used 8/2 cottolin instead of cotton, sett at 18 epi and the hand and absorbency are fine.  My warp and weft colors are quite colorful and varied. It was quite interesting to hear the different opinions expressed by the workshop participants as to whether they prefer warp and weft to be the same color or different colors. From my pictures I think you can guess what camp I am in, although they are all beautiful.  The colors are more vibrant than the pictures show.

My warp was only 15” wide and the finished width is only 13″, so I am not sure what they will end up being, but right now I just enjoy looking at them, both the lace and the colors.

Deborah Amaral
I learned a lot, on many levels, including using Fiberworks to noodle around. I was using 4 shafts, and six treadles, and wanted some plain weave space around motifs, which meant that I violated the rotational symmetry idea, but got the smaller patterns to pop out against a background. After “going rogue” with that, I went back and followed the instructions.

Like many, I prefer the lace when it is all one color, however, I also liked the addition of the lime at the end. I like brighter colors, and this ended up a bit too pastel for me, but the colors were selected by a young friend who may accept one of the pieces as a gift. They do represent the berries of the season!

​Freya Kamel
The class provided an almost bewildering array of choices for huck lace designs and a clever system of templates and overlays for creating them.  Several features that interested me were the positioning of the overall design within the square; the overall amount of space occupied either by design or by plain weave “white space”; and the relative numbers of warp and weft floats.  I wove 4 towels, with one design per towel, only changing the tie-up between towels.  The one I liked best was more centered with some plain weave around the edges.The interaction of color with design gave even more choices to explore.  I chose a favorite color scheme for my warp, chartreuse and aqua with dark rust brown for the outline grid.  I used the same colors for weft for one towel, darker shades of aqua and chartreuse for another, and added a lighter rust brown to the mix for the others.  Using the same colors for warp and weft gave a nice texture to the monochrome squares, but I found the towels using darker shades for weft to be more interesting overall, and the lighter rust added a pop of color.  ​