I’m slowly continuing my Weave Along with Elewys project. This newest band pattern is Hallstatt 152 and is the Weave Along with Elewys Episode 5. (I skipped a couple bands). Elewys tells us that the band that this pattern is based on was found in a salt mine in Austria and date from between 400-800 BCE. That’s totally amazing. To learn more about this band, check out Elewys’s blog.

My band is 1/2 inch wide. All the yarns in this band were purchased and commercially dyed. I chose brown, white, a deep orange and red. The spools were pretty all lined up, but in retrospect, my orange and red are just too close in color and so some of detail in the band’s pattern has essentially been lost. However, I still think this is a beautiful band.

I used the 4 hole pattern. That’s simpler than the skipped hole pattern but I still really struggled with this design. I had find time to weave without any distractions initially…not even music. I spent a lot of time in the first couple feet of weaving, unpicking my errors. There was error that was so egregious that I was never completely able to unpick it. That couple inches of weaving was pretty enough so that even though it was wrong, I left it.

But after several feet on weaving, I finally got it, and was able to weave without making mistakes listening to music or even with the evening news on in the background. I needed to develop the motor memory and mental memory to reliably weave this pattern.

I’m really pleased with this band and i definitely learned a lot weaving it!