A Helpful Trick for Weavers -
Today I am busy working in my studio which is always a fun thing to do. I am in the process of warping my Schacht Baby Wolf so that I can weave a wall hanging. It will be a sample for the students that are taking my class, Beginning Weaving - Weave a Wall Hanging dates are August 8 - 14 at the John C. Campbell Folk School.
I was gathering my equipment to get my warp onto the loom. I like the "Back to Front" method because it gets off the yarn onto the loom for easy threading. So the tools that I need are lease sticks and a raddle. In warps past, I used some rather ugly yarn to hang my lease sticks from. Today when getting ready to set up the loom I asked myself, why not have something handmade and lovely to hold my lease sticks. Since I am also a inkle weaver, I took a band that I had wove sometime back. I then got Velcro strips and sewed them to the bands. I now have a lovely handmade inkle bands that not only looks great, but is very useful. Now on to finishing thread my loom.
Happy Weaving!
Pam
posted by Pam Howard @ 12:38 PM
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