Weave Experiments

More Cotton Dyeing

 

Dyeing string with Kool-aidI previously posted about dip dyeing some cotton string. I used Kool-aid to dye the string and if you remember the outcome was much different then when I had dyed wool with Kool-aid. Thanks to experienced fiber dyers they explained that Kool-aid is an acid dye, which works on protein based fibers (wool and such) but not on plant based fibers (my cotton). Continue Reading

Weaving Techniques

Prepping your weave to hang nicely

Prepping your weave to hang nicelyI’ve talked about this before, but I thought I’d touch on it again for those who will find it helpful. After finishing the non-loom weave, I saw that mine wasn’t hanging nicely on the wall. Some of the sides were curling inward and there were a lot of waves in the weave itself.

Luckily there is a really simple way to fix this and make your weave look much nicer laying against a wall. Continue Reading

Weaving Wishlist

I’m in Love with Weaving Rope

Weaving with rope

This is my first post in the new year!! To start off the new year, I wanted to talk about my love for rope.

Of course I love yarn and always will, but lately I’ve really been loving to work with cotton rope too. It makes a great contrast next to soft and fluffy wool yarn. I also love that it’s so strong and sturdy. If I weave some cotton rope into my weave, I know it will stay where I put it with little movement. Continue Reading

Weaving Techniques

Can you make changes to areas already woven?

How you can make changes to areas already wovenHas this ever happened to you? You finish weaving up an area and then look back at it and it’s just not working for you. But what options do you have? You could unweave multiple rows that you just wove up…if that’s the case then it’s really tempting to just leave it. But I have good news! You can fix just a part of what you’ve already woven and I’m going to show you how. Continue Reading

Beginner Weaving Lessons

Reader Questions || Is it bad to have an uneven number of warp threads?

Answers to weaving questions

I’m embarrassed to say I’m behind on my emails, but please keep emailing me your questions because they are the best questions and would love if everyone who wanted to weave knew how to weave!

One of the emails I was trying to catch up on asked about a cardboard loom where the number of slits made it so that it could only be warped starting at the bottom and ending at the top. As you may have heard, I often talk about staring your warp thread on the bottom of the loom and ending the warp thread on the bottom of the loom. This is only necessary if you are planning on hanging your weave from warp thread loops. If you aren’t planning on hanging your weave in this way or you can’t end your warp thread on the bottom, then that’s no problem. There are a lot of different ways to hang a weave (I’ve posted about a lot of them here). Continue Reading