How to Expand Your Weaving Comfort Zone
Setting your aim higher than your ability is a recipe for burnout. Here's how to set yourself up for success while expanding your weaving comfort zone!
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Setting your aim higher than your ability is a recipe for burnout. Here's how to set yourself up for success while expanding your weaving comfort zone!
Techniques like woven shibori require some experimentation, but "failure" doesn't have to be scary. Set up experiments and start expanding your horizons!
Christina finds inspiration for handwoven dish towels when she returns to her bookshelf. You never know what will strike your eye on the second pass!
What is twizzled fringe?
Weight your lace ends to even out your tension with huck lace.
Linen can be tricky to beam on with consistent tension across the warp. Learn Madelyn's methods for success.
More suggestions on why a weaver's linen warp might be getting loose.
This step-by-step tutorial on how to fix a broken warp thread on a rigid-heddle loom will teach you to quickly and easily fix these pesky weaving problems.
A reader asks Madelyn for some clarification about floating selvedges.
The key to twill is to understand it—how it works, how it behaves, and how to adjust as needed to get the weave you want.
Sometimes the best approach to using fabulous yarns such as handpainted or variegated is the simplest.
For my breadcloth, I took an even more spontaneous approach. Rather than stick to a few specific colors I grabbed my box of partial bobbins of 8/2 cotton and started weaving.