Posts Tagged ‘Rigid Heddle’

I would LOVE to have looms to use for this… Hey, I do… My Cricket looms and Flips (assuming the folks are able to hold the shuttles)!!
Hmm… I wonder how I could get started offering FREE classes for mentally and/or physically handicapped kids and adults?? Anyone know???
Here’s what I’m talking about:
In Japan in the late [...]

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 [...]

Jeeze… this is fun!!! I’m making some beads for my woven bags (and for jewelry). Been watching LOTS of YouTube videos on both beadmaking AND wire jewelry making.
Here are some beads in the making….
Here are some coils that are very rough. I think I would like to distress them a bit…

Cathy made THE. MOST. BEAUTIFUL. SCARF. EVER. with it!!
Honestly, out of all the looms I’ve sold (and seen first projects from) THIS is THE BEST I’ve ever seen!!!! Cathy has really made her little Cricket sing!
Check it out, dawg! (I’m feelin’ Randy Jackson-ish)…..
Ohhhh… can you tell what pattern she’s used??? If you’re not [...]

Yesterday my friend Penny and I went to downtown Greenville to walk our dogs. Downtown Greenville is a beautiful city with park which includes many walking paths etc.
The weather was sooo grand (sunny and mild temps) that there were oodles of people (and dogs) all over the place. Libby (my dog) and Vader [...]

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 [...]

A huge thanks to Carolyn for inviting us all into her gorgeous lakeside home for a Leno Lace Table Runner class!
Some of the class worked on the table runner and others worked on scarves. Everyone added the Leno lace pattern into their project. We worked on Crickets, 15″ Flip Looms and 20″ Flip [...]

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 am soooo excited about these placemats. I wasn’t sure how well they were going to work at first because it was hard packing the cloth weft into the warp. I didn’t beat it really hard so there was space between the weft shots BUT when wet finished, the placemats turned out beautifully!!
Here [...]