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March 4, 2023 · 11:00 am

Equilateral Triangle Loom Woven Toys and Dolls

All the links for the ‘how to’ videos and other projects for my Equilateral Triangle Looms are at https://tottietalkscrafts.com/2023/02/21/equilateral-triangle-looms-all-the-links/

I love weaving Teddy Bears and other toys and dolls, too.

If you would like to order the pdf patterns for the projects, please post a note in the comments and I will get back to you asap.

EQUILATERAL TRIANGLE BUTTERLY PDF Pattern $3.50 Cdn

This Butterfly is a celebration of Springtime, Transformation, Renewal and Geometry and who knows what all else? Many things, I am sure.

POCKET PENGUIN PDF Pattern $5 Cdn

A little Pocket Penguin to weave on the Equilateral Triangle loom. The Pocket Penguin enjoys travelling about in a pocket or gazing at the stars with the Mermaids. If you would like to order the PDF pattern, please send me a message.

SWEET LITTLE DOG PDF Pattern $5 Cdn

A few months ago, we adopted a darling little dog. He is a ray of sunshine and this is my homage to him

and all the joy that rescue dogs and cats bring into our lives.

CUDDLY PANDA PDF Pattern $5 Cdn

I love designing toys that give hugs, so of course, this Panda

(woven on the smallest equilateral triangle loom) is all about hugs!

DARLING LITTLE KOALA BEAR: PDF Pattern $5 Cdn

I love Koala bears, so I had to design one to weave on the Equilateral triangle loom. I used the 4 1/2 inch loom for the Koala. The Koala bear sits by my computer and also holds my favorite thimble for me. And, of course, gives hugs!

If you’d like to buy the PDF pattern for the woven Koala, please post a comment and I will get back to you asap.

CUDDLY LITTLE TEDDY BEAR: PDF Pattern $5 Cdn

CUDDLY LITTLE KITTEN: PDF Pattern $5 Cdn

SIMPLE GNOME: PDF Pattern $3.50

GNOME FAMILY: PDF pattern $7.50 Cdn

EASILY AMUSED MONSTER : PDF pattern $3.50 Cdn

See LINK for all the photos

of the Easily Amused Monsters

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August 24, 2016 · 3:17 pm

How to weave a vest on the Triangle Loom- Part 1

I love my triangle loom, and enjoy figuring out ways of working with it that stretch it’s creative possibilities.

Tri Loom Vest Title

Tri Loom Vest Title A

It struck me that I should be able to weave a vest on it if I warped and wove it in an ‘alternative’ way.

And, I was right!

I call it: The Dragonfly Dreams vest.

The vest is embellished with dragonflies and Thumbelina loom flowers, as well as woven hearts.

Because it’s bias weave, it drapes like a dream.

Tri Loom Vest back (c)

I did Leno lace on the back and wove ‘Tuxedo Tails’ at the lower back hem edge.

Patient Zillah, my cardboard mannequin has a bump on her back because of the stand she’s on, so there’s a slightly odd wonkiness showing, but that’s the stand, not the vest.

The back of the collar is open, as that makes the vest drape better. (The opening is woven in.)

The pockets are woven on the potholder loom, and embellished with dragonflies and flowers woven on the Thumbelina loom. I also used a vintage Crazy Daisy flower loom to finish the flowers.

Tri Loom Vest Title sizes

Tri Loom Vest Titles 1a

WHAT IS NEEDED TO WEAVE THE BIAS VEST ON THE 7 FOOT TRIANGLE LOOM:

7 foot triangle loom (mine’s from Dewberry Ridge looms: LINK)

Potholder loom (also from Dewberry Ridge Looms: LINK )

Thumbelina Loom from Dewberry Ridge Looms: LINK

Dragonfly Loom from Dewberry Ridge Looms: LINK

Heart loom from Dewberry Ridge Looms: LINK

Lucet from my etsy shop: LINK

Yarn: I used worsted weight yarn, approximately 400 gms

Crochet hook, scissors, ruler, rubber bands, 2 stitch markers, long shoe laces, shed sticks (I have a selection of narrow wooden shed sticks that I have made from unfinished wood. Unfinished wood is better as it sticks in place better than super slick varnished wood. The longest one is about 42 inches long -slightly longer than a meter), dowels to use as shed sticks, tapestry needle, 2 clamps to secure the loom to the stand, 1 spring clamp, large binder clip, straight pins.

Very handy, but optional: Clamp on lights, a stool that has wheels on it.

Here is Video #1:

Part 2 is in the next post.

Happy weaving!

Garden Shawl woven on Triangle loom

For a couple of months now, I have been working on a large project…

Garden Shawl 1 A(c)

I wove a shawl on my 7 foot Triangle loom from Dewberry Ridge looms:

Triangle loom notched neckline shawl (c)

And have been designing and weaving all manner of motifs on the Thumbelina, heart, dragonfly and 2 inch Wiz looms, to stitch to it:

Garden Shawl 1 (c)

I really don’t like gardening anymore, and would much rather be weaving…

Garden Shawl 1 B(c)

So, I have created a garden on a shawl…

Garden Shawl 1 C(c)

To wrap myself in Garden pleasures all year round.

Garden Shawl 1 D (c)

That’s a dragonfly shawl pin that I made.

All the links to the videos to weave all the motifs are here on my blog and on my youtube channel,

so if you would like to weave yourself a fantasy garden, too, you can!

Just click on the Thumbelina category and follow those, or simply click on the back arrow, and you can scroll backwards to find all the tutorials.

Here’s a video slide show of the shawl:

The looms are all built by Dewberry Ridge Looms LINK

I am now moving deeply into a commissioned tapestry, so I won’t be here quite as often as I have been in the last few weeks, but I will be back!

Blessings until then!

Happy Weaving!

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October 18, 2013 · 3:11 pm

How to weave a rectangular scarf on a triangle loom

I have been weaving a lot of scarves, so I am in ‘scarf mind’ mode 🙂

The other day, I was looking at my triangle loom, and thought…. I think that I could weave a rectangular scarf on that!

So, I warped up, and sure enough, I figured out a ticketyboo way of weaving a rectangle on the triangle – YAY!

Here’s the finished scarf, wrapped around one of the ‘scarf heads’ that I built for my maker’s faire booth:

And, here’s the scarf laid out folded so I could get it all into the pic:

And, here’s the video showing how I did it… and sorry for the total drop out of my voice when I turn my back to the camera. Yep, I need a microphone.

Here’s the link for Dewberry Ridge looms: LINK Yup… I love their looms 🙂

Happy weaving! 🙂

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March 4, 2013 · 10:32 am

How to weave a shoulder bag on the 14 inch triangle loom

Last week, I posted a video tutorial on how to weave a bag using the 3 foot triangle loom LINK

I’ve also designed a shoulder bag to weave on the 14 inch triangle loom, with a little help from weaving sticks 🙂

This bag is a great way to showcase handspun yarns, art yarns, tarn or other special yarns.

It’s VERY comfortable to wear across your body.

Wearing across like this keeps it closed.

If you don’t wear your bag across, then you’ll want to make a shorter strap, and add a button at the ‘V’.

The bag is made of 4 triangles woven on the 14 inch Dewberry Ridge triangle loom LINK

The hypotenuse of the triangles have cords made on the lucet (a spool knitter works just as well) to stabilize the edges.

The sides, base and handle are woven as one continuous piece on 6 weaving sticks.

(For more fab things to do with stick weaving looms, please check out this page on my website: LINK)

There’s a pocket on the front and also on the back of the bag, for business cards, glasses, cellphones, lip gloss, etc.

I made a video tutorial (with the usual assistance of my dogs… palm to forehead) showing how to make this spiffy shoulder bag:

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February 25, 2013 · 9:39 am

How to weave a boho or hobo bag on the triangle loom

My daughter sewed me a couple of gorgeous triangle shaped bags that got me thinking….

‘Hmmmm…. could I weave a triangular shaped bag?’

And, the answer was so obvious that it was a palm to forehead moment!

Duh! Use the triangle loom!

So, I did, and here’s the result:

The easiest bag ~ever~!!!!

These bags are so comfortable to use- they hug your body!

I designed it so there are 2 pockets on the outside for glasses, cellphone, business cards, lip gloss etc

I wove mine on the 3 foot configuration of my Dewberry Ridge Triangle loom LINK to their site.

But, you could weave it on the 6 foot configuration, too, if you prefer.

Demonstrating with the full size triangles was too hard to get into the screen of the video camera,

so I used triangles woven on my 14 inch triangle:

The finished bag is about 24 inches from the tip of the handle to the base point and about 18 inches across:

It’s such a fun and easy bag to make, I know that I am going to be making a whole lot more of them!

Here’s the video tutorial on how to make them:

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February 21, 2013 · 11:09 am

Video tutorial How to weave on the triangle loom

Weaving triangles on the tri loom is great fun, and very easy, too.

This video tutorial demonstrates on a small Dewberry Ridge Looms triangle loom, but the technique is the same, no matter what size the loom.

Weaving a triangle isn’t just weaving a triangle- they can be combined to make squares and rectangles, so your design possibilities are completely unlimited!

I used the 14 inch triangle loom from Dewberry Ridge Looms to weave a stole for my daughter: Link

And I made a video tutorial on how I used tambour crochet to decorate the triangles: Link

Of course, you can use a tri loom to weave triangular shawls, too…. LINK

triangle-loom-dragonfly-shawl-copyright Noreen Crone-Findlay

or blankets: LINK

or Cowls: LINK

Dewberry Ridge Looms can be ordered from dewberryridge.com/

Happy Weaving!

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August 24, 2012 · 8:21 am

A gift of love-A heart and hands scarf

I wanted to wrap my daughter with love, so I decided to weave her a stole or scarf that has the hand prints of our near and dear.

And in the hand prints, are little hearts that I wove on my heart loom. LINK for how to weave them.

I wove the triangles on the 14 inch triangle loom from Dewberry Ridge looms LINK

And showed how to do the chain stitch drawings: LINK

And, how to weave the flower from hearts: LINK

Because the scarf/stole/shawl will be seen from both sides, I stitched a heart to each side of the stole :o)

I plan on crocheting an edge around it eventually, but am holding off on that until we are sure that we don’t want more triangles added to it.

I love being able to pour my love into a special gift- with love in every stitch! 😀

In every stitch is a wish for happiness!

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April 17, 2012 · 9:14 pm

How to use tambour crochet to embroider a chain stitch heart on a small loom

I’ve just made a new video tutorial showing how to use a nifty technique to embroider motifs onto small loom weavings.

The technique is tambour crochet, and the motif is one of my most favorites, the heart…

This is the first in a series of video tutorials and free projects that I will be posting in honor of ‘Stitch Red’, which is the Needlearts industry’s campaign for heart disease awareness- working to benefit The Heart Truth through the end of June 2013.

I care deeply about heart health, as my mother and mother in law both had heart problems, and my mom had to have surgery on her heart.

I don’t want any of us to have to go through that …. so I am very committed to helping people have happy healthy hearts!

I used the tambour technique to embroider the heart and greyhound for the memorial piece about the passing of our beloved companion in this blog post Link

In the video, I promised that I would share a heap of links, and so here they are:

The Stitch Red campaign website is: www.stitchred.com

You can follow on twitter and facebook

Their blog is http://www.stitchred.com/blog.asp

The yarn in the video is delicious gorgeousness from Koigu yarns: Stitch Red yarn and more Stitch Red

The loom in the video is a 14 inch triangle loom from Dewberry Ridge looms tri loom

More links to the Stitch Red campaign: Ravelry group

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January 5, 2012 · 4:36 pm

Alternate uses for triangle loom and easel

I love my triangle loom-( I have the Dewberry Ridge adjustable one that is a wonder of engineering and fine craftsmanship. LINKIE

I know this, because I do some woodworking myself, so I know how hard it is to create such precise joins! And the math and geometry is amazing.)

Anyhow… back to my starting point here…. so, I love my triangle loom and the easel it hangs on.

(Although, I have to admit that I have royally bopped myself by smacking into the loom and having it fall on me- yow! And, ahem… I’ve done this MORE times than I care to admit, and each time, I reel away, muttering- “Man! that thing’s heavy!” And it HURTS when you, pardon the pun, ~nail yourself~ with it. I even got myself on the head with it one time. oi vey.)

ANYHOW>>> back to my starting point! I keep wandering astray here!

Okay, so I loves me my loomie…. right… and sometimes I bop myself with it, right, which has NOTHING to do, whatsoever, with what I want to show you….

Which is- that I love that I can multi-task with it!

I mean… after all, if you are going to be living with a big loom, that no matter how much you love it, it still jumps out and thumps you, you better be able to use it in more ways than just weaving with it, right?

So, here’s the deal….

My brilliant daughters are both gifted craftswomen and artists, and they are doing another craft show together this weekend.

So, Daughter #2 (technically, she’s my daughter-in-law, but I love her like she’s my very own, so she’s Daughter #2, not just ‘DIL’) is a fabulous spinner and maker of gorgeous yarns and rovings.

She has knitted up some lovely lace shawls for the show, and mentioned that she needed to do the dreaded blocking. (ugh)

This one is a combination of shetland and camel that she spun.

Looks pretty gnarly before blocking!

I had a flash of inspiration-

I asked her what size she wanted to block them to, and she said 4 feet on the hypotenuse for one of them and 5 feet on the other….

AHA!!!! my triangle loom will work PERFECTLY for blocking the lace shawls!

So I whipped out the different sections to change it to 4 feet (as I had been weaving cowls using the 3 foot configuration -here’s the link to the cowls LINKIE)

And, in 2 shakes of a lamb’s tail, we had her shawl on the loom and blocking!