Weaving Techniques

Weaving Technique || Wrapping Yarn & Adding It to a Weave

How to Wrap Yarn & add it to a Weave As you know, I’m always looking for new-to-me things to try with my weaving. And one of those techniques I’ve been admiring lately is the look of wrapped yarn. It adds a lot of texture and there is something really lovely about a mess of yarn spilling out of a structured wrap. You can see a lot of wrapped yarn in the works of many fiber artists, including the iconic Sheila Hicks. Wrapped yarn looks so lovely and can be a really great compliment to a weave. Today I’m sharing the steps to how I wrapped some yarn and added it to my weave, so you can try this out too! Continue Reading

Weaving Techniques

Weaving Techniques || Adding Beads to your Weave

How to Add Beads to a Pile WeaveJudging from the amount of times I get asked about this, I think it’s about time we explored adding beads to weaves!My first thought was, sounds easy enough. I picked out some cute coral-like beads with a weave design in mind and then I attempted the weave…twice! It turns out adding beads wasn’t as easy as I had first thought, but I got there in the end and I’m more then happy to share what I learned from this attempt.

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Weaving Techniques || How to Hang Your Weave from Anything

A tutorial on how to hang a weave from anythingThat’s right, hang your weave from anything…well, anything that you can tie a string to and will support the weight of the weave, but you get my point. A weaver I follow on Instagram (are we friends yet?) recently posted a beautifully detailed vintage pipe stating that she was hoping to try to hang her weave from it, but wasn’t sure if it would work (and here is a picture of the pipe, thanks Jessica for sharing!). I commented yes it is very possible! This pipe had the strength and width needed for her weave, and it’s actually really easy to hang your weave from objects like this. So this post is for all of you wondering how you can hang your weaves from ‘odd’ objects.

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Weaving Techniques

Best of Weaving Techniques || 3 Colored Plain Weave

3 colors weaving tutorialHey friends! As you may know, I shared some best-of weaving techniques during the holidays and I realized there are a lot of new people on the blog that may have missed my older posts. So I’m going to highlight some great weaving techniques from time to time for those of you who are new and possibly spark ideas for those of you who have been following along for a while now.

Today I’m re-sharing the 3 colored plain weave. This weave makes a really fun visual and is great for beginners too!

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Weaving Techniques || Weaving Plaid

Weaving Plaid TutorialAfter I warped my loom with two different colored warp threads, I knew I had to weave a plaid. It’s really fun to see how the weft colors interact with the warp thread colors that peek out. I made the plaid for fun, but in the future I probably will follow more of a block pattern that looks closer to traditional plaid and also I will use a heavier weighted yarn for my warp thread so that it is more visible. Continue Reading

Just Some Thoughts

When to Move on from a Weave

When to Take Apart a WeaveThis topic comes up a lot. You love your new weave idea, it’s going to be so great. You pick out the perfect yarns and weave away. You’ve put a lot of time and energy into this weave, but suddenly it isn’t looking right. You keep working at it, maybe changing a little, maybe adding more and nothing is working.

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