Here’s to not playing on our phones and instead, using this time for weaving.
In these uncertain times, I’ve decided it’s best to keep weaving. I want to weave 13 towels for the summer, and to avoid boredom, I’m going to try a blended draft, but of 3 rather than 2 drafts.
At what point in your weaving career do you stop making errors? Read on about a few that I just made.
Like many people around the world, I’m choosing to practice social distancing. While I’m stuck at home, I’m going to use my newfound free time to take on a few of my “someday” weaving projects.
Someone once told me that experienced weavers didn’t read Handwoven. I beg to differ.
Staying in might spur you to try new techniques such as the weft color blending I used in my scarf.
Taking a project from design through sampling and then completion is slower when you weave only on the weekends.
One way to design with multiple colors is to start with a neutral base and add colors to it but it helps to have a plan.
We all have cones and skeins of yarn that have stories that make them too special to use in just any project.
Read how Diane came up with an idea for weaving and sewing a chasuble and stole for a young priest from the region where she lives in Italy. It’s an unusual story, but one worth telling.