I finished this project a couple of weeks ago but haven’t had time to share it. My friend, Irene of Cotton Clouds, is involved with The Natural Dye Project sponsored by Mayan Hands. She asked me to create a baby blanket out of the Friendship Towel Kit that she is selling to support the Guatemalan women in this project.
The towel kit makes 4 towels using naturally dyed 8/2 cotton.
I added Monte Cristo cotton boucle to the kit and came up with…
…two baby blankets, each using Monte Cristo and 8/2 cotton in the weft but using different patterns. It is easy weaving but things don’t always go smoothly. 
I happened to look at the first blanket winding its way onto the cloth beam just before starting the second blanket and saw 7 warp threads that should have been woven into the blanket.Because of the texture of the boucle yarn I hadn’t noticed the error while weaving. Now I can see it but it wasn’t obvious when I wasn’t looking for it. 
Here is the problem. When threading the heddles I inadvertently used 7 heddles from the Shaft #5 when I should have used Shaft #4. This is a 4-shaft structure so #5 didn’t lift at all. It is an easy fix for the second blanket. Just tie Shaft # 5 up to each treadle in which Shaft #4 is engaged. 
That works.
However, the only way to fix Blanket #1 was to needle weave all 7 threads in after it was off the loom. That should be easy (over-under-over;over-under-under), but it took hours because of the nature of the boucle yarn. Thank goodness it was only 7 threads.
After weaving the blankets aren’t done yet. Wet finishing is an important step of weaving. It allows the yarns to “bloom” and fills in the spaces that are there when the yarns are under tension. It turns a bunch of interlocked threads into cloth. It also results in shrinkage. See the difference in width in the strip that has not been washed and the finished blanket.
Here is a detail.
The final step is a photo session. 
No baby was available so I used one of my kids’ teddy bears.
My old teddy bear (I won’t tell you how old) featured in some of the shots too.
You can purchase this kit from Cotton Clouds at this link.
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Beautiful blankets with much loved bear!
I like reading about how to solve problems–since I manage to make mistakes in every weaving project I undertake at this stage! The blankets look great!
Pretty baby blanket. Can I just purchase the pattern and yarn requirements so i may weave a different colored blanket?
These blanket kits are sold to benefit the women of Mayan Hands. The pattern is a simple weave structure that alternates 2/2 twill with plain weave shots and uses 8/2 cotton with the thicker white cotton. I can’t sell any parts of this separately but if you go to Cotton Clouds website you can find 8/2 cotton and the thicker fluffy cotton (I can’t remember what it’s called right now.)
I LOVE these blankets! I just purchased the kit from Cotton Clouds (the colors are amazing!), but am trying to adapt the pattern for a rigid heddle loom that I will direct warp. Do you think I should use a 10 dent heddle with double threads in each slot & hole? Or a 12 dent? I have 8, 10 & 12 dent heddles. Thank you!
I am making these blankets now, and having just finished the first blanket, I ran out of the natural yarn. I have bought many, many Cotton Clouds kits and know that their yardage is always very generous so I clearly misunderstood something in the pattern draft. Looking at your pictures, I think I know what happened, but I wanted to verify with you. Blanket 1 said to follow the drafts for color order. What I did was follow it exactly, which meant that I put natural between each of the colors. In your pictures, it looks like you are only using the colors, is that correct?
My blankets are coming out very nice, although different, but I bought this kit a second time for a second baby and I wanted to make sure I do it the ‘right’ way next time.
The blankets are beautiful, by the way!