The weaving class on Craftsy is excellent. The instructor is fantastic and seeing everything on the video that I can watch over and over helped me so much.
Using a light gray yarn for the warp and a mystery striping sock yarn for the weft, I began weaving last night and got 15″ done.
Weaving!
It isn’t hard but the only tricky part is getting the edge tension right. If it’s too loose, there are nubby little edges. If it’s too tight, it pulls the piece in at the edges.
Loose Edges
I have way more trouble on the left side than on the right side and I remember now that I had that same problem when I did the other pieces when I first got the loom.
It takes a little concentration and a little practice but after a few more inches, I could see that my edges were getting better.
Better Edges
I’m so glad I gave myself a kick in the back side and finally got my loom together and found all the parts. This is probably the only way I have a chance of using the sock yarn in this house but I keep asking myself . . how many wool scarves does one need in central Texas? Especially when one so rarely leaves the house!
Certainly . . without a doubt, I would never try to talk someone into a new hobby but if you already have more yarn than you’ll ever use, weaving sure is fun!
Susan says
Well, obviously you’re going to need a wider loom to make wall hangings and art weavings. =)
scrappyhappystarfishy says
These make really pretty scarfs for the tops of your dressers and end tables if you don’t want scarfs! Cheers! Evelyn
Sandie says
Judy-
DH came home from his drawing class at the Carnegie museum @ a month ago to find a 36 inch 2 shaft Union Rug Loom in the middle of our kitchen. (I had hoped to get it into the front room and reassembled, before he got home, so I could just kind of casually work it into our dinner conversation, but since he had the tools in the van with him,and it was too wide to get thru the kitchen/dining room doorway… SURPRIZE!)! Craigs list is a dangerous thing… we had talked about it a while back, and he had said that once we moved if I found a rug loom for $100 or less I could get it, so I did. Do I know how to use it? Not a clue. Have I found anyone who does? nope, but I Have always wanted to weave my own rugs, and I will figure it out, A client used to be really into spinning and weaving, and I mentioned that I was interested in learning someday when we did her floors, and she called me today, and said she is downsizing her home, and needs to adopt out some of her looms, and offered me her Kromski 24″ Rigid Heddle Loom with stand and 4 reeds for – get this $!50…guess I better learn how to weave pretty darn quickly!
Nan says
It’s beautiful! I love it! Keep it up Judy.
Lesa says
What brandies your loom & how wide of a piece can you weave? You are tempting me – AGAIN!
BethL in MD says
I got the 15″ Cricket Loom about a month ago. It is warped and ready to weave, but I haven’t gotten up the nerve to actually weave yet. I did buy the Craftsy class earlier this week and will hopefully get around to watching it and weaving soon….
Linda Steller says
That looks really cool, but I’ve decided that if I’m going to take up anything else, I’ll go with spinning. There are so many sheep, llama, and alpaca farms around here and once a year we have the black sheep gathering at the fairgrounds where you can buy just about any kind of fiber you’d want to spin into yarn. They have a little area where all the women come with their spindles and wheels and sit and spin. Looks so relaxing to me!