I had just finished writing about color gamps for pin looms (see Little Looms Summer 2025) when the call for submissions for the Little Looms fall ’25 issue came out. Oh, the theme! “A walk through the forest”. Thoughts of sunlight sparkling through the tree canopy and the many colors and textures came to mind. That seemed like a perfect invitation to put pin-loom color blending instantly to good use.
I searched for a natural yarn with a good color variety for a forest project and discovered Bio Shetland wool by Kelbourne Woolens.
It is a soft, fingering weight wool in beautiful, some heathered colors.
Blending some of the shades would look like berries.
The greens and naturals would blend in perfectly to mimic moss.
There! … The project idea of a cranberry bog framed by a mossy path was borne.
For my weaving I chose the TinyTURTLE™ hexagon pin loom in R-regular sett. The regular sett for worsted weight yarn allows to blend different colors as needed by holding two strands of the fingering weight yarn together. The smaller hexagon size is perfect to achieve a good color variety in a project, and it scales nicely for a table runner.
There was a good amount of yarn left over, and honestly, I wasn’t done weaving yet.
Great coaster ideas came up: “A handful of cranberries”, using color blends from the center of the table runner. Then, the natural colors would make “stepping stones”, and the different greens would make perfect little “moss patches”.
You can find the pattern for the Cranberry Bog Table Set in “Easy weaving with little looms”, Fall 2025. If you are a Little Looms or All Access subscriber, you can also find the project in the Little Looms library.
I hope that you will enjoy making the Cranberry Bog Table Set to decorate your autumn home … and maybe make an extra coaster or a few to give to a dear friend …
Gabi Love this pattern and the describing of walking through the forest was great made me envy as it is still winter here
Going for walks through the forest has its charm at any time of the year. Autumn is more colorful indeed, but a quiet winter walk is nice, too.