Well, I’ve gone and woven me a scarf. The world’s longest scarf. Seriously. With every weaving project, there is extra length/width built in to account for “drawing in” and shrinkage and some allowance for practicing the weave, but when I took the scarf off the loom and put it around my neck, it dragged on […]
I mentioned last week my trouble with keeping straight which direction I was heading on the foot treadles. Sure, it’s easy when you’re on treadle 1 or treadle 5, because there’s only one direction to go from each of those, but if you’re on treadle 3, it’s anyone’s guess. Enter the beads. The teacher attached […]
Saying “I’m weaving” always makes me expect to hear “where you going?”. But today, I actually did weave. And I have pictures to prove it. After I finished threading my heddles, it was time to put the loom back together and add a reed, through which all the heddled threads would also need to be […]
