Tag: tutorial

  • Warping the Loom (part 2 of 2)

    There’s a saying in weaving that by the time you actually start weaving you’re half finished with the project. That’s a bit of an exaggeration, but honestly not by much. Threading the heddles and reed is especially time consuming, and each step of today’s tutorial took me a whole afternoon of work! And that’s it!…

  • Warping the Loom (part 1 of 2)

    Warping the Loom (part 1 of 2)

    Before I started weaving I really had no idea what goes into the process of using a loom. Wikipedia defines weaving as “a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth”. I understood the basic mechanics of the weaving process itself as taking that second distinct…

  • Blocking 101

    Blocking 101

    Other knitters often ask how I learned to knit. There’s a lot of answers to that question– my favorite being a story about whittled sticks for knitting needles and yarn from the craft lodge at summer camp when I was a camp counselor in college! But the more nuanced answer is that every time I…