Ms Kitty, the feline Queen of the Studio is convinced that anything new in the studio is there for one reason. To amuse her, of course. So, last week, when a loom suddenly appeared in the studio, without her fore-knowledge (I forgot to warn Ms Kitty that I had indulged myself and adopted a rather [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘weaving & handwoven’
July 15, 2010
Weaving with my grandson
The apple does not fall far from the tree. My daughter has been teaching workshops this week. (ahem… like mother, like daughter… yay!) Yesterday, she taught 15 children how to weave- can you hear the happy dance I am doing? and can you feel the waves of delight pouring out of me? (Two of the [...]
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 [...]
April 8, 2010
Video Tutorial how to weave bias triangle on potholder loom
I love the continuous technique of weaving that I learned from triangle looms. It struck me that I should be able to adapt the triangle loom technique to potholder loom weaving, so I played around with it until I figured it out. Triangles are such a neat design element that the more ways I can [...]
March 29, 2010
New Video Tutorial for how to weave a rectangle on potholder loom
Potholder looms may be square, but! you don’t have to just weave squares on them!! I have figured out ways of weaving other shapes, too. Last week, I decided to make a video of how to weave rectangles on the potholder loom. We were in the middle of a nasty springtime cold snap. March was [...]
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 21, 2010
And the winners of The Woven Bag books are….
Oh my goodness…. it was so hard to choose the winners of the Woven Bag books! In fact, it was so hard that I actually ended up choosing a consolation prize winner as well as the 2 book winners. So…. who won the books? Nina and Perry. Who won the consolation prize? Sandie (a pdf [...]
March 5, 2010
Win a copy of The Woven Bag book!
Sorry, but the contest to win 1 of 2 copies of my new book, The Woven Bag, has now closed…. My publisher’s (F&W Media, the parent company of Krause Books), were wonderfully generous in sponsoring a contest to give away 2 copies of my scrumptious new book: Link to order The Woven Bag T W [...]
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 [...]
