There are days when I don’t feel like a real weaver. When I was pregnant, I wove a few dish towels and then didn’t sit at my floor loom again until my child was walking and saying his first words. I often felt like a fraud—and oh, the guilt!
Knitters have known and loved Icelandic lopi yarn for years, but as Anita Osterhaug points out, it’s wonderful for weaving as well.
You’ve probably heard of sheep to shawl, but what about sheep to ruana? For her spectacular Sheep to Shadow Weave ruana in the September/October 2018 issue of Handwoven, Margie Bell started out with a couple of fleeces and ended with a ruana.
In their Supplementary Scarf from the September/October 2018 issue of Handwoven, Kathi Keller and Linda Gettmann use Deb Essen’s ingenious supplemental warping technique to weave this gorgeous scarf in turned-monk’s belt.
I can’t think of a better way to pay tribute to weavers long gone than to use their drafts in new and inspiring ways. Elizabeth Evans does just that with her Keep Me Warm Towels from the September/October 2018 issue of Handwoven.
Marge Williams found her inspiration for her napkins from towels by Marty Benson and Janet Giardina, those two weavers found their inspiration from Ozark weavers of old.
There’s nothing quite like finding the perfect draft for your chosen yarns.
For her Delightful Dinner Napkins from the September/October 2018 issue, Susan Love decided to get out of her comfort zone and the results are, true to the project’s name, delightful.
The Syracuse Weavers Guild challenged their members to do just this, and the results were stunning. For her entry, Nancy Smothergill chose to weave huck towels. Here’s what she had to say about the inspiration behind her Tintes Naturales Huck Towels fro
There’s nothing like a guild challenge to kick-start creativity. In this case, members of the Syracuse Weavers Guild of Syracuse, New York, were challenged to use the yarn from Tintes Naturales Friendship Towels kits to weave their own, original towels.
