Use your plain-weave and twill pattern bar skills from the getting-started videos to weave a finished piece. This project is easiest if you watch those videos first.

The pattern is roughly as follows.

Start with the plain weave bar. Weave several rows of plain weave (I have used a thinner yarn in a color that contrasts with the zigzag section).

Remove the plain weave bar and insert the twill pattern bar. This will make the zigzag section.

For the zigzag section:

Step 1: Weave 5 rows while rotating the bar forward one position between every row.

Step 2: Weave 5 rows while rotating the bar backwards one position between every row.

Repeat step one and step two.

When you’re finished with the zigzag, remove the twill bar and insert the plain weave. Weave a few rows of plain weave (use a thinner yarn or contrasting color if you like).

Customize it:

Change up the colors, use thicker or thinner yarns, or make each section with more rows or fewer rows.

If you would like to weave the pattern that is on our homepage, the curve in red and white yarn, here is the basic idea. You can start on any number (any position). As with above, to make the zigzag, you just move through the positions, weaving one row in each position. Then after three or four rows of that REVERSE direction, and weave one row in each position moving in the other direction. So for example: 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4. Every time you switch direction, it makes the zig zag.

To make the curve, you gradually increase the number of rows you weave before switching positions. So you could go

 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4…

Then, you reverse directions with the bar, and gradually decrease the rows you weave in each position. So that would look like

…3, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1

If you want, do some more zigzags at the other end. Don't beat it down too hard or you won't see the pattern as much! Try it and let me know how it goes!