In my last post, I showed how to make a Teneriffe Lace Fairy.
The video got so long that I decided to make the ‘Hair making’ video separately.
And, so, here’s the video showing how to make the hair for the Teneriffe Lace Fairies 🙂
The links for all the videos in the Teneriffe Lace Weave Along is L I N K
The Teneriffe Lace Fairy is today’s installment of the Teneriffe Lace Weave Along.
I loved designing her and hope that you will enjoy making her.
She’s beautiful when made in other colors, as well as in plain white or ecru.
The Teneriffe Lace Fairy is woven on both the square Teneriffe Lace Loom and the Triangular Teneriffe Lace Loom.
The wings are made by using the ‘how to’ for the second Teneriffe Lace Butterfly: LINK
Here’s the how to video:
The complete list of all the how to videos for the Teneriffe Lace Weave Along is at LINK
To buy the looms from Dewberry Ridge Looms, please go to: LINK
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HURRAH! In 2020, my publisher (Stackpole books) will be releasing not just one new book from me (I was hard at work for almost all of 2018 on it), but-
WHEEE- while I was working sooooooooo hard on the book that will be released in January of 2020, I was also busting my chops on laying the foundation for the NEXT book that I am writing.
And, the good news is that they will be publishing the NEXT book in the fall of 2020, so most of 2019 will have me hard at work on it.
In fact, I am happily working on it now.
Last summer, my friends, Teresa and Darren Griffith gave me a huge bag of fluffy, fabulous fuzz from 4 of their gorgeous alpacas.
I don’t have a drum carder, so I hand carded and carded and carded it all and spun and spun and spun….
this basket of yummy yarn….
It may not look like much, but there is over a kilogram of yarn in that basket!
I thought that Teresa was brilliant to staple a lock of fleece from each of the alpacas to a card, so I would remember the name of each of the sweet alpacas who donated their loveliness!
And, now, I am joyfully weaving the alpaca yarn and will be including it in the NEXT book.
Hurrah!
and a thousand thanks to Teresa and Darren for their amazing generosity! ❤ and blessings to them both
In 2012, I wove a tapestry that was quietly part of a series of tapestries that I have been working on for many years:
In the last few weeks, she has let me know that she wanted to really spread her wings….
So, I wove her a face on my hexagon loom from Dewberry Ridge looms: LINK
I built a little loom to weave hands for her, and stitched on butterflies that I had designed and crocheted many years ago.
I used really thick wire to make and armature for one of the larger butterflies.
And, then, she had wings!
I am so pleased with her, and she is very pleased with me, too!
She’s about 39 inches/100 cm tall and her wingspan is about 22 inches (55 cm).
Here’s a little video that I made about her:
My book, Peg Looms and Weaving Sticks LINK shows you how to weave tapestries on the peg loom.
If you’d like to know how to weave tapestries on the hexagon loom, here’s a how to video:
After a very long, very cold and very snowy and icy winter, I do believe that Spring and Butterflies on their way!
Last year, I wove a series of tapestries that I call, ‘The Fabula Figures’.
Fabula means ‘story’ in Latin… and each of the Fabula Figures is about the power of story.
The one in the photo below is called ‘Fabula Figure: The Storyteller’ and is about 44 inches tall.
She’s one of the later figures in the series.
I had woven a few prototypes for the series before January of 2017, but I really committed to the series on January 1 of 2017, and I haven’t stopped weaving them.
10 of the Fabula Figure tapestries are part of the ‘Faconner’ show that I wrote about in the previous blog post.
Here’s a little video of the Fabula Figures that I wove from January 1 – September 30, 2017:
I have lost count of all the times that people have asked me how to sew hand woven fabrics together by hand.
This little video shows quick and easy ways of stitching together fabric that you have woven, no matter what loom you use:
Recently, I designed a fun shawl, and made a video about how to weave a shawl with a collar using 3 triangles woven on the 3ft triangle loom.
The border is made up of triangles woven on the potholder loom.
Here’s the video: The video is full of hints and tips for triangle loom weaving in ‘outside the box’ ways.
Here are 2 ways of weaving triangles on the potholder loom:
I used the first method for this shawl: How to weave a triangle on the potholder loom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6ahC…
How to weave a triangle on the bias on the potholder loom:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl-GN…
I made a separate video about how to stitch the pieces of the shawl together:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tKIy… Happy Weaving!
I have always loved mermaids, and I am totally addicted to weaving mermaids these days.
I’ve made a video showing how I used my Mermaid pattern on etsy to weave Mermaids of different sizes on peg looms.
I took the original Mermaid that looked like this for the pattern:
And added a wooden face, leather hands, a little tatting, and a seashell:
She was woven on 1/4 inch diameter weaving sticks and is about 11 or 12 inches tall.
Also woven on the 1/4 inch diameter weaving sticks is this Mermaid, woven with hand spun art yarn and needle felted:
The same etsy pattern can be used to make totally different mermaids by changing the size of pegs or weaving sticks used and different thicknesses of yarns.
I used the smallest pegs on my 6 inch peg loom to weave the smallest Mermaid, who’s about 7 or 8 inches tall.
She’s woven on the 1/8th inch pegs.
The Mermaid woven with the 3/8 inch pegs is about 20 inches tall:
I did some geometric pattern weaving in her body, but it’s a little hard to see in this pic.
I used 2 strands of a very bulky chenille yarn held together to weave the largest Mermaid, who is around 28 inches tall.
When I was weaving the different sizes, I did tweak the pattern somewhat to adjust for the differences in the size of the pegs and thickness of the yarns.
Here’s the link to the pattern in my etsy shop: LINK
(sorry – it’s not free)
Happy weaving and happy Mermaiding!
The looms are from Dewberry Ridge Looms: LINK
My book: Peg Looms and Weaving Sticks is available from all your favorite online book sellers, and can be ordered through your local book store. It’s full of weaving yes-ness!
Here’s the video about the Mermaid dolls:
I made a video tutorial showing how to weave on every other nail on the triangle loom when weaving with bulky yarns.
This creates an open lacy weave that drapes beautifully.
The shawl was woven on the 7 foot Dewberry Ridge Triangle loom,using super bulky yarn made by spinning together cotton threads with knitting machine and lace weight yarns.
The every other nail technique also works fine when 2 or 3 strands of medium or fine yarns are held together as if they are a single strand.
This is a very quick and easy way to weave a soft and drapey shawl.
The shawl in the video is a prayer (compassion) shawl made for a dear friend when she lost her Dad.
She loves the shawl, so I am pleased, because of course, I want her to feel that there is love in every stitch and that she can wrap herself in that love whenever she needs it.
Details: I spun a super bulky yarn by combining 7 strands of very fine crochet cotton and knitting machine boucle yarn- cotton and acrylic, on a bulky head spinner. The wpi is 5 wraps per inch. I plied it so it is 14 strands thick.
Here’s the video:
Noreen Crone-Findlay, designer and author
