I built a stool for my loom. Not for weaving, but for threading the loom. Turns out, most people remove the loom beater and sit in the loom. Since I needed the stool to straddle the treadles and the frame but not be super tall so the heddles were at eye level. Set up in the basement […]
Category: Weaving
Things that occurred this week
In no particular order: I got two fleeces scoured on Thursday because it was the last warmish day for a while, I’m glad I did! I scoured a 5lb Dorset/Cotswold fleece that I got back in the spring and the 2lb Icelandic fleece I just got. They are still drying, it’s been cool and cloudy so one of the fleeces […]
Loom and Shearing
Monday last week, I got a loom! The person I bought my new spinning wheel from texted me and asked if I wanted a free loom. I said hell yes. She had originally gotten it for free from someone who was moving and lent it to a friend who didn’t need it. Said friend of hers was dropping her […]
Happy Pride!
My fiber arts stuff has slowed way down as work is busy and I’m busy. I think I knitted a hat recently and I’m 2/3 through my current spinning project which I’ve been working on for a while. Oh well. But this! Oh what fun! So this tablet weave is made with Maysville carpetwarp and […]
Fiber Roundup
This is a bunch of stuff I’ve done in the past few months. This is a project that was mostly practicing different techniques, I warped up two warps per heddle loop so I could do a 2 by 2 pattern. I also did pickup techniques which is what the V pattern is at the top. […]
Tablet Weaving!
I like it! I used mercerized cotton that I had in my stash from ages ago. I had only bought two colors since it was for baby yoda but I ended up using a different yarn. All the guides recommend mercerized cotton to start so that’s what I did. I watched many many videos of […]
Weaving Project #3
Another weaving project! First larger project on the same tiny loom and I used my handspun yarn. My warping pegs (brackets attached to my grow light stand) worked super well and I was very pleased with how they worked. So all my projects will be 46 inches long for a while. I learned that the […]
Weaving Project #2
I made another thing! The only thing I’m not happy about is the braided ends and that was only so I could take it off the dowels and figure out what to do with it. I had planned for it to be a bracelet but as it turns out, I know nothing of how to […]
Second Project
I warped a second weaving project yesterday, right around lunch time and got so into it that I forgot to eat lunch. Whoops. I was essentially doing the same as my first project but muchwider. So I warped with the tatting crochet on my niddy noddy, so the warp is around 1 foot long. I […]
Another hobby
I said I wasn’t going to pick up another hobby but I figured out how to make the world’s smallest backstrap loom out of pvc pipe and started weaving with tatting crochet thread and a tapestry needle as a shuttle. oh well. I should be able to use this with larger yarn for narrow projects, […]