r/weaving • u/kaleidoscope_heart13 • Dec 19 '25
Finished Project Rainbow blanket
One of our craft club friends commissioned me to make a baby blanket for her relative and this is how it turned out!
I wove it using Yarnsmiths Create DK acrylic yarn, with the full width of my 32" Ashford rigid heddle loom. I used a 7.5dpi heddle, 240 ends and warped 75". Each section of colour was 5.25" in the weft and my weave was really nicely balanced with roughly 7.5ppi.
The finished blanket is 28.5" wide, 48" long and I've trimmed the tassels to 2" either end. I picked all the colours using my yarn pegs and I'm so happy with how it turned out 🌈
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u/Odd-Marionberry5999 Dec 19 '25
This reminds me of the Andean Wiphala flag haha, super pretty you did a great job
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u/kaleidoscope_heart13 Dec 19 '25
I had to go and look up the flag - thank you for the comparison, the flag is beautiful both in appearance and meaning 🥰
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u/Applesauceier Dec 20 '25
I have the same loom! I'm new to weaving, so it's awesome to see what these babies are capable of :D Was this done with the whole width of the reed, or did you do some double layer shenanigans?
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u/Applesauceier Dec 20 '25
Jk, if I read your description right, I think you warped the whole loom, one layer :)
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u/kaleidoscope_heart13 Dec 20 '25
Yeah I used the whole width of the loom, so just one layer. I do have an extra heddle though so maybe 2026 is the year of double weaving?!
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u/moonracer191 Dec 20 '25
It's beautiful! If you haven't posted it there already, r/rainboweverything would really like this ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
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u/kaleidoscope_heart13 Dec 20 '25
I didn't know that was even a subreddit! I'm going to go check it out though because I love rainbow things 😂 thank you!
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u/No-Chemistry1816 Dec 20 '25
Oh my. That is stunning!
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u/kaleidoscope_heart13 Dec 20 '25
Thank you - hopefully the final recipient will approve too!
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u/Full_Adhesiveness914 Dec 20 '25
I’m a brand new weaver. I absolutely love this! So did you use the same colors for the weft as the warp?
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u/kaleidoscope_heart13 Dec 20 '25
Thanks! Yes, I used the bright red, bright orange, bright yellow, bright green, dark turquoise and just purple for the warp, and then used all of those again the weft plus a few extra colours to create more of a gradient 😊
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u/jamar80 Dec 20 '25
I have a 32” Kromski. Fairly new to weaving. It never occurred to me that one could do something like that. It’s beautiful.
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u/kaleidoscope_heart13 Dec 20 '25
Thank you - I hope you weave things that make you happy!! And definitely share them here 🥰
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u/Life-Education-8030 Dec 24 '25
Inspirational!
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u/kaleidoscope_heart13 Dec 24 '25
Thank you very much 🥰
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u/Life-Education-8030 Dec 24 '25
I am waiting for my first loom and it is just a zoom pin loom but I don’t know enough to do more yet!
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u/kaleidoscope_heart13 Dec 25 '25
That'll be a great way for you to learn and when you're ready, you can always upgrade it 🥰
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u/catchyourwave Dec 19 '25
I don’t understand how you did this, but I do understand that I want this. Well done!