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:
I love making one of a kind wooden buttons from twigs and branches that I find on the ground.
It’s a great eco-friendly project that is upcycling at its best.
They are a great way of embellishing hand woven, knitted, or crocheted fabric, or to make a sewn garment or accessory even more special.
You don’t have to have a woodworking shop full of power tools to make lovely wooden buttons- a few simple hand tools are all that are necessary.
Here is the video that I made, showing how to make 3 different kinds of buttons from the same twig.
I hope that you will have a wonderful time making your own unique buttons:
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I absolutely love working with tarn, which is yarn made by cutting t shirts into a continuous length of fabric strips. You then use the fabric strips as stretchie, wonderful yarn.
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Tarn is a terrific way to upcycle, recycle, re-fashion, re-purpose, re-use and reclaim old t shirts that are no longer wearable. Perhaps they are stained or have little holes in them, or the neck has gone all wonky, or they have a logo on them that you just don’t want to wear anymore.
In that case, turning the t shirt into tarn is a fabulous option.
I showed how to make a ‘buttonhole join’ in tarn here:
How to do the buttonhole join link
and in this video, I showed how to weave it on the potholder loom:
Potholder loom weaving with tarn
Normally, I use a swift to hold the t shirt when I cut my tarn. I decided that that wouldn’t be the best choice for making a video, as most people don’t have swifts, so I used a little stepladder to stretch the t shirt.
It’s kind of clunky, so you have to forgive me for the fumbly bits.
Here’s the video on how to cut tarn: LINK
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