Posts under ‘warping’

These towels WERE gonna be sooo purty!!
Weaving buddies out there…. can you spot my threading error????
Please humor me and tell me you’ve done something like this!!

I had a FANTASTIC weekend!
First I taught a super FUN weaving class at North Woods Farm Fiber and Yarn Shop in Campobello (thanks Teri!) and then I continued to play with creating colorful jewelry.
Here are two of the students (a husband/wife team) busily weaving. Kaity (seen below) had THE. BEST. selvedges [...]

Last week I taught a class on Rigid Heddle Weaving. Each student purchased 3/2 pearle cotton to use as both warp and weft for their table runners.
The goals of the class were to direct warp a rigid heddle loom, to use cash register tape to keep track of pattern and to weave both [...]

This past Saturday I had a blast at the Hagood Mill in Pickens, SC. Once a month they have Folk Life Exhibits including:
* Operating Water Mill
* Blacksmithing
* Spinners
* Weavers
* Flint Knappers
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I’ve taken Janet Dawson’s challenge…sorta…. I’m going to do a Scarf a Week. Janet is doing a Scarf a Day but with the Flip Loom placemats and Mighty Wolf dish towels… well, I just couldn’t keep up daily!!
Here, though, is my FIRST scarf in the challenge. I absolutely LOVE the “nubbly” textures. [...]

A fellow ‘Cricket-teer’ sent these photos to me (Thanks, Kim!!). Aren’t they purty!!
OH, notice the yellow scarf?? There is a story behind this BRIGHT, cheery scarf!! We (several of us have made them!) call these BRIGHT scarves our “happy scarves”. Whenever anyone of us Cricket-teers is feeling down [...]

I taught a class a North Woods Farm Fiber and Yarn Shop this past weekend. We ALL had a GREAT time. ( Watch this site or Teri’s site at North Woods because we are planning to do another beginner workshop in the NEAR future and possibly an advanced class!)
As you can see in the [...]

I warped my Schacht Mighty Wolf all by myself!! I did manage to twist a few warp threads which messed me up a little but I was still able to do the tabby weaving and the twill as instructed in the book, “Learning to Weave” by Debbie Redding. This book is FANTASTIC! [...]

I am going to begin doing a series of LIVE, yep, scary LIVE “TV shows” showing how to do various things with rigid heddle looms. This will pretty much be for beginners HOWEVER, everyone is welcome to join in – the more the merrier!!
The first show will be Friday, November 20th at 10am EST. [...]