A year ago I bought my first* loom, a new Glimåkra Emilia 50cm rigid heddle. This past weekend I bought my fourth loom – my first floor loom – a 1970s Glimåkra 100cm Ideal (4S/6T). my handsome loom I’m waiting on a shipment from the lovely and responsive people at Glimåkra USA with new heddles, [...]
Read More..>>Yesterday was my sister K’s birthday. I made her a looper rug with loopers from Crazy as a Loom. I think she liked it. Despite the Clown Barfiness. 8/4 rug warp in smoky blue, ~200 ends, 8 epi (12 dent reed, threaded 1-1-0). I tried a rag shuttle, ski shuttle, and a long stick shuttle. [...]
Read More..>>The current weaving in progress. table runner My first time using a boat shuttle. It’s very quick. Yarn is Wollmeise. Wollmeise is pretty good for weaving because it almost behaves like a cotton – it’s not stretchy. more patterns I finished one table runner at about 2’10″. The second one I hope I can eke [...]
Read More..>>I wove a scarf in a couple of weeks in December. scarf in a tree Then it took me over a month to twist the fringe. fringe But hey. It’s cool. I love the fabric. red yarn is koigu black/grey is plymouth yarn happy feet Misc Stats: sett 12 epi 108 ends + 2 floating [...]
Read More..>>During lunch on Monday I warped my inkle loom for a new trial project, letters on 5-block checks. warped, in more than one way After I warped it, I realized that I had accidentally left the tension flap swung in instead of out: oops I had decent sheds though so I thought it would be [...]
Read More..>>For holidays, my mom sent me an Ashford Inklette loom. It comes flat in a box and you have to do some very basic assembling. Sand the edges to smooth everything out and utilize some wood glue and a rubber mallet to insert the pegs into their holes, then screw the base in. Nothing major. [...]
Read More..>>2012, the year I started weaving. I started the year with a couple of weavette looms I got back in 2008. They’re still in a box, but now I have three additional looms — a new 19″ Glimakra Emilia rigid heddle loom I got in April, a used 25″ Rasmussen 4 shaft table loom I [...]
Read More..>>Before I bought the used loom, I verified that it wasn’t too rusty as far as the reed and heddles are concerned. Well, the reed was in passable condition, but once I started to clean the loom, I discovered the heddles really were not. rusty heddles I tried the method of cleaning them off with [...]
Read More..>>I mentioned last month that I bought a used loom from someone on Craigslist. Although I wanted to immediately warp it and weave something, I instead was convinced by people in the Warped Weavers group on Ravelry to clean it up first. I’m glad I was convinced to do that because in the process I [...]
Read More..>>There’s a rigid heddle weaving class on Craftsy that I find very helpful. I watch bits and pieces of it periodically and pick up new tips and tricks that I slowly add to my process. One of the two projects in the class is for tea towels made in Sugar’n Cream cotton or some other [...]
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