One of my most favorite things to do at Christmas time is to make ‘the ornament of the year’ to give to family and friends. I usually end up making a LOT of them and it’s totally delightful.
This year, I have been weaving up a ton of tiny Snowmen- I designed them last year and made a video so other people can make them too.
Here’s the link to the ‘how to’ video:
One of my favorite projects in my new book, Innovative Frame Loom Weaving, is an extremely useful tool.
It’s a woven Needle Book that holds sewing needles.
Pin cushions are good for pins, but needles can get buried in them too easily.
Needle books hold sewing, darning and other craft needles safely and handily.
This video shows variations on the Needle book that I designed for the frame loom, including ones woven on the potholder loom and Weave It style pin loom.
And, also, a relative asked for a brooch that she could stick pins and needles in while mending, so there’s one of those in the video, too!
For links to video on how to upcycle cloth tea bags into Teabag Yarn, and how to weave triangles with it, please go to: LINK
I love finding fun and unique ways to upcycle things, and so I have had so much fun turning cloth tea bags into yarn and weaving with it, to make tutus for the Merrie Sunshine and Mermaid Minnie Moonbeam dolls.
For the main page about Merrie Sunshine and Minnie Moonbeam dolls, please go to: LINK
Here is the video that shows how to make the Upcycled Tea Bag Tutu:
If you want to weave with bulky yarn on a pin loom, it can be challenging.
I’ve made a video, using Upcycled Teabag yarn (here’s the link on how to make upcycled Teabag Yarn: LINK) as the bulky yarn for this example.
When you weave using 2 nails at a time on a pin loom, you can open up all kinds of possibilities for working with art yarns, fabric strip yarn and other bulky yarns.
It’s quick and easy and adds so much creative potential to pin loom weaving. Yay!
Here’s the how-to video:
Here is a video tutorial about how to make sweet and simple doll clothes using triangles that are woven on small triangle or pin or potholder looms.
The video shows the doll clothes being modeled by the Merrie Sunshine and Minnie Moonbeam Mermaid wooden dolls, but the clothes will fit other dolls that are around 8 inches/20 cm tall.
For more information about the Merrie Sunshine and Mermaid Minnie Moonbeam dolls, please go to L I N K
HERE ARE A WHOLE BUNCH OF VIDEOS ABOUT HOW TO WEAVE TRIANGLES ON SMALL LOOMS:
This video shows how to weave triangles on 2 inch pin looms, but the technique is the same on any size square pin loom:
Here are 2 videos that show how to weave a triangle on the Potholder loom using yarn:
and
and here is how to weave a triangle on small triangle looms:
And how to weave a triangle on a Weave-It style pin loom: Note that you will need to weave 2 triangles and stitch them together to make them large enough to make the doll clothes in the video:
Here’s how to weave a triangle on the Martha Stewart loom:
No matter what loom you weave your little triangles on, I hope that you will find delight in using them to make simple doll clothes!
Happy Weaving and Happy Doll Making! ❤
One of my most favorite looms to weave on is the tiny 2 inch pin loom.
Here are a few videos that I have made, showing some fun techniques and projects for the 2 inch pin loom.
How to weave small rectangles on the 2 inch pin loom:
How to weave squares on the bias on the 2 inch pin loom:
How to weave triangles with the 2 inch pin loom:
How to make tiny Snowmen with woven 2 inch squares and triangles:
How to make jewelry from woven 2 inch pin loom squares:
The loom in the video is from Dewberry Ridge looms: LINK
I am working on a series of circular tapestries that are contemplations on the nature of healing, imagination, dreams, stories and the power of community.
These two tapestries: ‘Each Flower Has a Memory’
and ‘Mermaid Circle of Imagination and Hope’
were woven on many different looms, including peg looms, weaving sticks and a variety of pin looms.
There’s also quite a lot of tatting included because of the soothing nature of lace making.
The tapestries are each 28 inches in diameter (70 cm).
Here’s a little video that shows the new tapestries:
I made this video and some others before all the grieving and conversation about needing to completely re-create the world as we have known it.
It felt to me that it was important to just be quiet and listen and learn and contemplate and donate and try and figure out how to move forward, so I didn’t post any videos for awhile.
I am convinced that it is essential to keep creating beauty, and so I am offering my videos again.
This one is about a process that delighted me- I figured out a way of making woven leaves and petals so I could make lovely woven flowers for some tapestries that I have been working on.
I hope that my work can be a source of inspiration and spark imagination as we all come together to build a world based on love, compassion and kindness. 
I designed this tiny snowman to weave on a 2 inch (or whatever size pin loom you want to use).
Here is a video for the step by step instructions.
Please go to https://youtu.be/F2c0yxkt1Os to see how to weave a bias Triangle on a square pin loom.
If you want to weave this on a Weave It style loom, then go to
https://youtu.be/m-1yK4GYUj4 for instructions on how to weave a triangle on a Weave It style loom.
Being able to weave a triangle on a square pin loom is very useful.
Here’s a video on how to do it:
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