I have wrestled with the loom.
My interest in weaving started in kindergarten when I made a bag weaving loom out of a shirt cardboard. We always got to do weaving or needlepoint before nap time. At some point, my parents gave me a little wooden block for the weaving of more precise little bags. In fifth grade, I studied the unicorn tapestries because they were really colorful, big, pieces of cloth. My goal was to make a miniature tapestry for the medieval fair at school. My parents had a loom meant for tapestry weaving which fueled my desire to weave a unicorn.
The Good Karma Loom is a Native American style weaving tool which takes a few hours to set up. It is slightly more sophisticated than my cardboard setup. I made a small square of tangled yarn before deciding to fabricate my unicorn some other way.
A few weeks ago, while browsing images of ikat and pooled weaving, I decided to try the loom one more time. For the warp, I picked a scrap of rainbow Red Heart acrylic yarn. I tried to pool the colors to make something that had a chance at looking cool.
On the floor of my office, for three hours, I wrestled the loom. It sounds silly, but after spending an evening crawling back and forth carrying strings, everything that could ache did.
The weaving part was actually relatively easy. Pictures coming soon in LOOM WRESTLER PART II.
My interest in weaving started in kindergarten when I made a bag weaving loom out of a shirt cardboard. We always got to do weaving or needlepoint before nap time. At some point, my parents gave me a little wooden block for the weaving of more precise little bags. In fifth grade, I studied the unicorn tapestries because they were really colorful, big, pieces of cloth. My goal was to make a miniature tapestry for the medieval fair at school. My parents had a loom meant for tapestry weaving which fueled my desire to weave a unicorn.
The Good Karma Loom is a Native American style weaving tool which takes a few hours to set up. It is slightly more sophisticated than my cardboard setup. I made a small square of tangled yarn before deciding to fabricate my unicorn some other way.
A few weeks ago, while browsing images of ikat and pooled weaving, I decided to try the loom one more time. For the warp, I picked a scrap of rainbow Red Heart acrylic yarn. I tried to pool the colors to make something that had a chance at looking cool.
On the floor of my office, for three hours, I wrestled the loom. It sounds silly, but after spending an evening crawling back and forth carrying strings, everything that could ache did.
