Entries Tagged as ‘Loom & looms & small loom weaving’

May 14, 2010

How to weave a square on the bias on the potholder loom

For weeks and weeks, I have been meaning to get my video tutorial of how to weave bias squares on the potholder loom posted to YouTube. What with one thing and another, I haven’t gotten around to it. One thing that was odd, was that I simply couldn’t upload videos for awhile. I just gave [...]

May 6, 2010

Breathing again after my book was reviewed

Oh my word…. seeing that my book has been reviewed gives me the royal palpitations….it is always VERY scary to face a book review …. my blood pressure goes up, my head goes woobly and I start to flutter…. When I checked to see if  ‘The Woven Bag’ had been reviewed on Weavezine (hmmm… I [...]

March 24, 2010

New video tutorial- how to weave with yarn on potholder loom

How long can it take to make a 10 minute video?  LOL…. all day! First of all…. you need to plot out how many looms you need to have on the go, and then get them set up so they can be grabbed quick like a bunny to keep the video flowing. This means that [...]

March 18, 2010

Out takes from The Woven Bag

Yesterday, I posted pics of some of the bags that a reader said she really liked (after I posted pics of bags that she didn’t like)   Link to yesterday’s post: Link I also said that I would share a few bloopers with you. Well… I don’t know if this qualifies as a blooper, but [...]

March 17, 2010

Show us some more bags she said

Last week, I got the nicest letter from a lady. She said that she had pre-ordered a copy of The Woven Bag…. BUT…. When I showed some pics of a few of the bags on the late hankering blog, she didn’t like them. So…. she canceled her order. Eegads and little fish! THAT’s not good! [...]

December 31, 2008

Inkle Loom Dimensions

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 [...]

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 [...]

November 19, 2008

Another healing/prayer shawl made with the mitered loop method

Last week, I wrote about weaving healing and prayer shawls on my Cricket Loom, using a method that I have developed (the mitered loop shawl). Here’s the link to the tutorial This is one of the shawls that I have just woven for my daughter. The colors didn’t show up at all well… sigh. It’s [...]