Handwoven Fall 2025

Now that autumn is on its way, we’re looking at our surroundings with fresh eyes—it’s time to put the beach towels and easy, breezy scarves away for now.

The eleven tempting projects in this issue are tailor-made to freshen up your home for the cooler weather and indoor adventures that lie ahead. We have pillows for extra couch time, rugs to protect your toes from chilly floors, runners to brighten your tables, dinner napkins to customize for family members, a pair of cozy throw projects for curling up with a good book (with ideas for making them your own), towels for your dishes or your guests (one towel project even has a matching wrap!), and a woolly basket to weave for your cold-weather knitting projects.

Wondering about the structures they use? You’ll find krokbragd, shadow weave, doubleweave, rep weave, huck and more huck, canvas weave, and multiple takes on twill, all woven in wool, cotton, linen, cottolin, silk, and old pillowcases.

You’ll also learn about the weaving community and ways we share our skills and knowledge, as well as tools and techniques for draft design, you’ll read about a wool yarn put through its paces, and you might even reconsider how you store your stash:

• Tom Knisely writes about the pleasures of demonstrating weaving in public.
• Read about the next Weave Together with Handwoven retreat.
• Accompany Véronique Perrot as she adjusts her weaving to use the bounty of shafts on her new loom.
• Learn how to use the tools on Handweaving.net to adjust drafts to your particular equipment.
• Yarn Lab takes a closer look at Brown Sheep Company’s Harborside Aran.
• Deb Essen writes about an old fridge and her garage—and what they have to do with her stash.

Get ready for cooler weather with the project ideas you’ll find in Handwoven Fall 2025.

Articles

• Notes from the Fell—The Pleasures of Demonstrating in Public, by Tom Knisely
• Weave Together 2026—You’re Invited to Join Us!, by Lynn Rognsvoog
• Find a Draft, Then Grab a Tool, by Kris Bruland
• Turned Twill on Three Blocks, by Véronique Perrot
• Yarn Lab—Supersized Wool for Cozy (and Speedy) Weaving, by Peggy Hart
• Endnotes—How a New Refrigerator Organized My Stash, by Deb Essen

Projects

• ON THE COVER: Autumn Berries Cushion Cover by Jeremy Uden (8-shaft)
• Zigzag Basket by Annette Swan Schipf (3-shaft)
• Plaid About You Throw by Kathy Broughton (4-shaft)
• Shadow Play Dish Towels by Dorothy Tuthill (4-shaft)
• Stormy Skies Towels by Rebecca Logan (4-shaft)
• Stormy Skies Wrap by Rebecca Logan (4-shaft)
• Prairie School Rug by Debra K. Sharpee (2-shaft)
• Ribbons and Blocks Runner by Véronique Perrot (12-shaft)
• Choose a Path Pillows by Angela K. Schneider (4-shaft)
• Family Dinner Napkins by Susan E. Horton (8-shaft)
• Falling Leaves Runner by Sue Anne Sullivan (8-shaft)