Looking to make a seat cushion cover for my office chair (or should I say, weaving chair, because that’s its main job at the moment) which is draped in (vulnerable) near white speckled fabric.

I’ve got leftover acrylic Woolcraft New Fashion DK yarn from my ‘tartan’ scarf, mainly Mallard, Navy Blue and Cream. Unlike with the scarf, I will beat harder to make a denser fabric. The seat cushion is about 45 x 45cm and somewhat circular, attached to the chair in the front but can be lifted in the back (no idea why). Thinking I could fasten an elastic band around the cover to hold it in place.

Warped the loom full width for the very first time - 5 slots of Cream selvedges and otherwise Mallard, with a 5 slot stripe off centre in Teal. 1.11m warp length. Excited!

Got my broken back beam pawl fixed (i.e. replaced) and looking forward to smoother winding on!

Weaving a Cream border with a 2-2 hemstitch, then switching to plain Navy. Might put a stripe of Teal or Mallard in somewhere, especially if it looks like I’m running short of the Navy.

Beating hard for good density isn’t as easy as I thought - the yarn has more elasticity than I remember, and I’m keen not to put too much tension on (as is my unfortunate habit).

The tension got worse and worse near the selvedges, resulting in a smiling fell line, despite my tension fiddling. I wonder if the white yarn is more elastic or whether I simply did a poor job of tying on those outer bundles.

I put in some teal and mallard stripes for interest, but clean forgot the white stripe at the end. Oh well, that part won’t be visible anyways.

I’m not crazy about the navy weft on the mallard warp - gives it a grey-ish look. The navy would have looked much better on teal warp (though I wouldn’t have had enough of that). This is my main lesson: I’m not keen on dark weft on light warp, i.e. the contrast is too high.

I like how it looks on my chair though, and the cloth feels soft yet firm - perfect for the job it needs to do.