This one has appealed to me for a while. I'm not sure why I decided to do it now, but that's fine. It was a pretty straightforward project.
The band is in Tablet Woven Treasures by Maikki Karisto and Mervi Pasanen. It's on p.131, 15. Maksu, Humikkala (KM 8656:H30:1). They call it a rib-weave pattern. It's a two-threaded pattern with all the threads in holes A and C, not offset like a lot of other 2-hole patterns. There are 7 pattern tablets. Each side has 3 four-threaded edge tablets which are tubular-woven. (In other words, both sides have tubular edges and all 3 edge cards on each side are part of the tubular edge.) That makes 13 tablets total, 6 edge and 7 pattern tablets.
It's pretty adorable! Unblocked, it's about 7/16" wide and about 65" long.
A warp thread snapped in the middle, yikes! I have no idea whether to blame the cats, the thread quality, or happenstance. I'm glad I already have experience with this, and indeed, it was not an issue to attach a new warp thread and keep going. There's one spot where apparently I forgot to do the tubular edge on one of the sides. I tried to fix that, too, a bit less successfully. It looks fine on the top but is slightly visible on the bottom if one knows it's there and looks at the right spot. Or if one runs fingers along the band -- the repair spot feels a bit different, but that's also true of the unrepaired area before I tried to fix it.
The width varies slightly. I really wanted the red on the edge tablet to show. But I had to balance that against pulling the weft tight enough for the pattern to look right. I'm a trifle disappointed that the red edge is not too visible most of the time. Oh, well, it can be a secret, I guess. Or I can use this as a strap since both sides of the band are very cute. Or attach it at the very edge of something and/or attach it loosely so the red can be glimpsed.
I'm glad I did this band, but I think I'm tired of tubular edges for a while.
I have no idea what I'll do next. Something, I'm sure!
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