Bound To Weave

Boundweave has been on this Baby Wolf for so long that my linen is breaking! I guess I should not have this loom right beside the heater vent!! I am using a damp cloth to keep the breakage down. Next time I will not wait so long to weave this off!

No rhyme or reason, just weaving for fun.

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Thanks for stopping by to see my blog. 

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Winter is in full swing, so thought you might like to see some green! Stay warm out there!!

Choke ties

Choke Ties: tie choke ties to contain your warp as need to keep your 'cross' and the warp chain in order as you dress your loom. The choke ties I use are nylon (pot holder) loopers. The cotton loopers will not work very well, so be sure and use the nylon ones. 

February Weaving

One of the fun things about getting together with other weavers is to see what they have been up to. Here we have Rossanna, Marilynn, and Anita sharing.

Rossanna again wowed us with her Kumihimo weaving.

Marilynn has used silk/wool to create two beautiful shawls with awesome drape.

Anita has used her small pin loom for theses sachets. 

Transparent Weaving

Transparencies was the topic of Melissa's February program for the Divas. She presented several webs of multi-hued gossamer suspended in space transparencies.

The weave, characterized by an open tabby ground and colorful weaver-controlled inlay blew our socks off! Experimenting with 4/1 and 20/1 linen, she produced a great variety of exciting textiles.

Basically using this one book for reference, Melissa taught herself this technique. ("Sheer Delight" by Doramay Keasbey)  

Here is has worked on creating curves.

She worked with a cartoon to to create her transpareccies. 

This shows the gossamer effect.

She used positive and negative space and combined it creating effects to truly amaze. Just take a look at her examples.The hand on the left she used the negative space to inlay her yarn. The hand on the right she used the positive. 

Thrumbs

I am weaving towels. To divide them on the loom, I am using some left over threads. Thrumbs!

Heddle Fix

If you look real close you can see I have a safety pen on my heddle bar. Hope this info is helpful.

I know all of us have been there. We have threaded our looms and about four inches in from one side we find we put a thread on shaft one and it should have been on shaft two. Well, here is a way I learned to make a repair heddle that you can use over and over. Just keep it clipped to your loom until needed.

Things needed: scissors, four straight pins, two safety pins, some string and a metal heddle from your loom.

Take your pins and put one on each end and two in the center eye of the metal heddle.

Fold your string in half and slip it onto the safety pin end hole.

Slip this over the pin that is in the metal heddle.

Stretch the string over to the center pins. tie a knot around this first pin,.

Now, tie a know around the next pin. This is the center eye of the heddle you are making.

Go to the other safety pin and go up with one end and down with the other.

Place the safety pin over the pin and pull and tie a knot.



Now you have a repair heddle that you can use over and over. Just hook the two safety pins over your shafts top and bottom bars on your loom.