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Season 7, Episode 5: From her childhood sewing beside her tailor mother to decades teaching weavers to make great garments, Daryl Lancaster has never had a bad day at the sewing machine—and she says you shouldn't fear the scissors.
Our first ever weaving event will take place February 25-29. Four days of weaving bliss!
Maybe it isn't you but the weaving rules that are causing those errors in your weaving! Linda explains.
Who knew visible mending would become a thing? I would never have foreseen it, but I’m all in ... with handwovens.
Plain weave can curve and undulate if you bend the weft as you weave using a wave stick. It's a tool you can make yourself or buy and it's a whole lot of fun!
Sometimes after wet-finishing, plain-weave fabrics will have a cross-hatching pattern that won't press out. Madelyn describes what is commonly known as tracking.
If the sett for plain weave using 8/2 cotton is 20 epi, does that mean the sett for 16/2 cotton would be 40 epi? Madelyn explains some of the nuances of yarns and setts.
When the lights go out on the best-laid Thanksgiving plans, even the most upbeat weaver could use a good laugh. Here are a dozen of our favorites.
When my shawl fabric proved to be too stiff, I decided to make pillows instead.