Recently, someone asked me about the dimensions of my inkle loom. So, I’ve taken pictures of my loom and measured it, in hopes that this helps her husband in building her inkle loom. My husband built mine from reclaimed wood from pallets, and it’s VERY hard wood. You need hardwood for an inkle loom, as [...]
Entries from December 2008
December 31, 2008
Lovely Christmas presents
For Christmas, my daughter, Chloe, and I collaborated on making a pair of hand woven suspenders for my son-in-law. She has posted pics of them to her blog: http://www.tangledthread.com/want-to-see-what-ive-been-working-on/ When you’re there, you’ll see three gorgeous bags that she made. Mine’s the luscious rosie one in the middle……
December 24, 2008
Weaving Words
I love weaving words into inkle woven bands. In this picture, Tottie Tomato is wrapped in the words of Dame Julian of Norwich’s prayer: And all shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well… I love this prayer and say it allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll the time………. To pay homage [...]
December 16, 2008
What’s on your loom for Christmas?
It wouldn’t be a proper Christmas without at least a little weaving! My daughter and I are co-creating a present for her husband. I warped up my Cricket (love that loom!) and am weaving up the bands that she is going to use to make him a pair of suspenders. I wove about 20 feet [...]
December 11, 2008
Christmas ornament
One of our favorite holiday traditions is to make a Christmas ornament for our friends and family. For this year’s ornament, I decided that I would make an Angel of Gratitude… so I drew and colored her, and then scanned and printed a flutter of angels. I glued them to wood,varnished them and then cut [...]
