Sitting at a loom might not seem like the coziest of endeavors at first, but I assure you that cozy weaving is not only possible, it is delightful.
It's taken me years to undo the mindset of simple is better, but what I've learned along the way is how beautiful weaving colors can be.
Milk fiber is a relatively new fiber with a lot of potential. In her Yarn Lab in Handwoven November/December 2017 Liz Moncrief wove samples using this yarn.
It was my great pleasure to put together our last pattern pack of 2017 featuring 5 of my favorite patterns, Handwoven Presents: Weaving Around the World.
I swear just a minute ago October was starting and we had months—months!—until The Holiday Season. Guess how many holiday weaving projects I’ve started.
Weaving silk is absolutely a wonderful experience—perhaps the only thing better is wearing silk.
Weaving with rags, for example, shows up around the world for millennia. And it’s easy to see why: when people made all their cloth by hand, they didn’t want to waste even a scrap.
I still remember very well the first time I spoke with Tom Knisely. I had just started at Handwoven and Madelyn told me to call Tom to interview him.
Babies change everything. This is what I was told frequently while I was pregnant, and today it’s a mantra I repeat as I try to balance the aspects of my old life, like weaving, with my new reality.
As it turns out, weaving with a baby was not in the cards since life had very different plans for me.
