Weave This || Off-Center Circle Weave

In the last post, I showed how to warp your loom so that you have an off-center middle. Don’t you just love the look of an off-center weave?! I feel like it gives the weave some personality and makes it more unique.

I’m very excited about making an off-center weave, and of course I’m going to share with you all my steps so that you can weave along too! Here’s what I did to get our weave started:

step 1|| using the basic technique, weave over/under the warp threads. I wove three times around the center point.

Note: The center point is a tight space to weave between because the warp threads are so close together. To weave in this area, I like to weave the thread over a few warp threads and then using my tapestry needle, I push the thread down towards the center. I push it in between each warp thread until the weft thread is in close to the center. A thin thread is easier to weave in the tight space, but as you can see I’m weaving using my twisted cotton string, which is a thicker thread and this packing technique still works well.

step 2|| using your tapestry needle, make another pass around your center circle to push the weft threads in towards the center point so that the weft looks circular too. If you have a lot of “slack” in your thread, pull on your weft thread tail to reduce the amount of weft thread between the warp threads. This will help the weft threads lay nicely in your weave.

The peach warp threads showing over my neutral weft looks nice, but I’m going to add a solid weft row that will also bring dimension to our weave. To do this we’re going to soumak weave (more details on how to soumak weave here).

step 3|| soumak weave around each warp thread:

taking your weft thread bring it over the next two warp threads.
bring the weft thread down and around warp thread #2 so that your weft thread is starting on warp thread #2.
next bring the weft thread over warp #2 and #3.
at warp #3 bring the weft thread down and around. Your weft thread will start at warp #3.
continue in this pattern of passing the weft thread over two warp threads, looping it around the second warp thread and then back up until you complete a soumak row around your center point.

This is a good starting point for our weave. We’ll continue the weave along in the next post, see you there!