In my earlier post about weaving log cabin patterns I talked about how to warp up a standard 5A 5B pattern. That's the pattern many people start with, but you can vary the size of the blocks to create other effects. In this post I want to consider some of those variations.
With equal size blocks of colour (in this case 4 yellow and 4 black) in the warp and the same pattern in the weft each block starts on one colour and ends on the other.
If you start with blocks of 5A and 4B before continuing with 5A and 5B the colour change is the other way round. So if you look at the first group of vertical lines instead of going black to yellow they go yellow to black. Similarly the horizontal stripes originally had black at the top and yellow at the bottom, that two has been reversed.
The pattern changes when the warp (or weft) has two adjacent threads of the same colour. By changing the position of those adjacent threads it is possible to generate many different log cabin patterns. For example:-
By always doubling one colour a symmetrical group is created. Using groups of different widths you can create more complex patterns.
What's your favourite log cabin pattern? Let me know with a comment.
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