by Beth | Nov 28, 2018 | learning to weave, skirt project, weaving
Not much progress since last week. I’m about halfway through threading the heddles for my samples right now but I thought I’d talk my way through this with you and tell you what I’m thinking. It helps to get it all out and really think it through. ...
by Beth | Mar 7, 2018 | learning to weave, Patreon, projects, Spin Along, Weave Along, weaving, Weaving
I put some number of kitchen towels (I actually can’t remember how many) on the loom way back in December. My plan was to weave them rally quick and have a few little gifts for Christmas. LOL! It is now March. I can see the end of the tunnel but they still are...
by Beth | Feb 5, 2018 | learning to weave, weaving, Weaving
The two looms I own are the Schacht Baby Wolf and Schacht Mighty Wolf. The towels I’m currently weaving at a pace as slow as a snail are on the Baby Wolf which is a 24″ wide, 8 shaft loom. I only have 4 of the shafts threaded for this twill. I’m on...
by Beth | Jan 24, 2018 | learning to weave, weaving
I’ve been doing some live videos on my Facebook page and the last two have been about tying up the treadles on my loom. I put on a warp that is long enough for at least 6 kitchen towels and I want to do a different pattern on each towel. I warped the loom in a...
by Beth | Dec 18, 2017 | learning to weave, Tape Loom, weaving, Weaving
Way back on November 1 I posted about wanting a tape loom. I had seen my first in person tape loom in July at MAFA. That’s also where I bought my first book about tape loom weaving right from the author who was there. In July I began shopping and researching and...
by Beth | Dec 13, 2017 | Blog, learning to weave, weaving
I had a big plan. I was going to make a whole bunch of kitchen towels for gifts for some friends from church, my mom, maybe Brittney and Chelsea (the grown daughters). Then I went and spent ten days in Pennsylvania with my parents not too long ago. So the towel warp...