Dog on the Loom
Yesterday I had a weaving lesson from PatsyZ.
I took a class from someone in Michigan this summer, but there's nothing like working with a teacher who understands how I learn and whose style is similar to my own. Patsy's been my spinning teacher for a number of years, and she was a weaver before she was a spinner - seemed like a no-brainer that she would be the person to really teach me how to weave.
We cut off the warp that I had wound in Michigan - Dog on the Loom is a technical term (really :-D), that's what they call it when you cut warp off. I didn't want to make mug rugs anyway, besides which the yarns were icky together.
We worked from 2 until 7. Yes, really. She has de-mystified the math that is part and parcel of using a loom. Yay!! I wound my first Wollmeise warp for a scarf, and am in the process of warping the loom. She's coming back soon for another lesson, and I'm going to be really weaving in no time at all :-) I prefer the look of plain weave so far . . . the look of overshot gives me vertigo.
Can't tell you how much better I feel about the entire process. Of course, the sunroom is looking more and more like a studio instead of an actual room in my home. At least this half of it does :-D Might be time for some focused straightening up in there. But for now, I'd better focus and get downstairs and walk.
Chilly here today - could be time for the Industrial Strength Hat.
I took a class from someone in Michigan this summer, but there's nothing like working with a teacher who understands how I learn and whose style is similar to my own. Patsy's been my spinning teacher for a number of years, and she was a weaver before she was a spinner - seemed like a no-brainer that she would be the person to really teach me how to weave.
We cut off the warp that I had wound in Michigan - Dog on the Loom is a technical term (really :-D), that's what they call it when you cut warp off. I didn't want to make mug rugs anyway, besides which the yarns were icky together.
We worked from 2 until 7. Yes, really. She has de-mystified the math that is part and parcel of using a loom. Yay!! I wound my first Wollmeise warp for a scarf, and am in the process of warping the loom. She's coming back soon for another lesson, and I'm going to be really weaving in no time at all :-) I prefer the look of plain weave so far . . . the look of overshot gives me vertigo.
Can't tell you how much better I feel about the entire process. Of course, the sunroom is looking more and more like a studio instead of an actual room in my home. At least this half of it does :-D Might be time for some focused straightening up in there. But for now, I'd better focus and get downstairs and walk.
Chilly here today - could be time for the Industrial Strength Hat.
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