Just finished the first of several of these bags which I plan to make. Pleased with the result, and as usual, I love the colours! I like to make things which I use/would use myself, so inevitably I end up using mainly my own favourite colours. I’ll be trying out other colourways at some stage.
Tassels make an attractive addition to your contemporary piece of weaving — you can use them in various areas of your work and not only at the bottom, which is perhaps the most common use of tassels. For the main part, weavers will use one of the colours — and perhaps even the same yarn…
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Creating a twisted header (or footer) to create a neat finish for the lower end of your work you will need: NB — the twining begins on the bottom left of the frame of course, but my demonstration shows work from only half-way across the warp threads. I had already completed the first section before…
This most divine book dropped onto my doorstep yesterday and has me drooling. I have mentioned that recently I fell in love with felt, but if I thought that was love, I just hadn’t been prepared for this new surge of passion that this book has brought through the door. If anyone is interested, I…
Many of us have become aware over the past couple of months, either through personal observation or via the media coverage, that the period of lockdown seems to have had a positive effect on our environment. Animals have been leaving their natural habitats to venture into city centres, no longer clogged up with traffic and…
It can be a bit of a challenge to find inspiration — not everyone is brilliant at free-hand drawing and so when it comes to finding images for embroidery or card making (just to mention two possible situations) I believe many people turn to internet for suitable material. Something I have found to be useful…
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Two strips of heavy duty cardboard arrived with your kit. One of them you have already inserted at the bottom end of the loom to block your weaving and leave a space for finishing off the woven piece. The second strip is to be used as a shed stick which will facilitate passage of your…
