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Post by paskinner on Jul 14, 2010 22:57:48 GMT -5
Well, I finally did it! I closed my eyes to everything I should be doing and took two days to get a bunch of weaving looms warped for the children. All went well until Loren ran out of homemade bread. lol Guess I will have to bake tomorrow! I wanted to post pics, but the camera's battery is dead.
We spent too much time.. lol... warping my 4 harness glimakra loom (It was the first time we warped her up) for the children to weave bags on. We finished it up about 2:00 this afternoon and one of the children already has over 14" of fine weaving done on it. It is fun to watch them learn about patterns and graphing.
This morning we warped up their Brio loom. When I looked tonight I was shocked there is not much warp left on it. I will need to warp it again very soon. Maybe if I warp more often I will get faster at it.
Late in the afternoon my daughter and I warp up an inkle loom so that she could weave a strap to put on the bag that she will make when it is her turn on the glimakra.
This evening sat down and started my youngest weaving on a magic square loom. It gave us some one on one time, plus it was fun.
Now I'm being asked about my twining loom, the tapestry loom, and the rug loom. When are they going to be ready to go? lol I'm not sure I can keep up. Especially when other things are backing up waiting for me to take care of them too. I had so much fun with them. This is better than cleaning any day.
paweaver
ps ---- posted under my husband's name again- sorry
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Post by joanne2 on Jul 15, 2010 7:54:05 GMT -5
Sounds like you naturally did everything as you should be doing. Sounds like great quality time spent with the kiddo's! Look fwd to seeing some kids weaving! Will have to spend some more time weaving See? the batteries were dead for a reason! So you would have to do it all again to share some pictures with all of us here on this dead forum! No, j/k! I've been here right along just busy... Now I have to clean!
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Post by paweaver on Jul 22, 2010 0:32:53 GMT -5
Proof of our fun. I put warp on more looms lately. We've emptied the little brio loom of warp twice. lol I need to warp it up again. I warp up two ridged heddle looms. One yesterday and one the day before that. I have my own loom warped but I need to find a time that I am awake enough to thread the heddles on it. My children are learning to use the warping board and help me. I excited and looking forward to see their finished products. I am so glad that I got them a four harness loom of their own Anyway Loren thinks I crazy. lol How many looms do you need? lol Ya, I always had a hard time understanding the how many traps do you need, so now I think we are even. lol Hope you all enjoy, paweaver
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Post by paskinner on Jul 22, 2010 9:09:10 GMT -5
Everyone knows there is no such thing as having enough traps or guns, but looms? ;D
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Post by joanne2 on Jul 24, 2010 7:20:51 GMT -5
Nice loom Weaver! I did have a goodsize Ashford loom for a little while.. and that is about all the weaving that I did with it... just several samples of weaving!... I traded it in to another Ashford dealer for another new spinning wheel. The 'Traveller' lol.. yes so there really is no such thing as too many looms OR spinning wheels! I have a small collection of spinning wheels.. None of which I happen to be using currently but I hang on those those babies! and do plan to return to using them!.. Not all at the same time mind you.. well maybe.. maybe the kids and I can all have our own spinning session! Kinda like a quilting bee? oh yeah I have a feeling that things will get back to they way they once were, the way things are looking these days. We'll all be wearing skins and woven clothes once again. HOPE not but you just never know. hard to improve on some things.
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Post by paskinner on Jul 25, 2010 22:09:33 GMT -5
Thanks, the loom is an older style, but current enough that I believe I can still buy another 4 harness for it if I want to change it into an 8 harness. Some of the looms that we are using are on loan from friends. A friend help me get an unbelievable deal on a Mountain table loom. It is an 8 harness I now have it warped and half of the threads through the heddles. I hope to actually weave on it this week. Can't wait!!! I've learn the hard way that if the children and I really want to weave we need small looms that fit in our living space. lol Well fit in to what is left of our living space after all our different hobbies- work. I'm sure you understand. lol
Have you ever spun on a Majacraft spinning wheel? I saw one just once and boy did my own "wheels" start a spinning. A few friends and I might make a day trip to were she bought hers. I would love to try them, pick my favorite, then save, save, save, and hope to stumble into a good deal on a used one. I love my drop spindle. I have spun well over two pounds of roving on it so far. When I ply three together the yarn is somewhere between sport weight and worsted weight. I want it to be sport weight so I'm working at spinning it just a bit finer.
I've seen the Travellers. They sure are a lot nicer than the wheel I have. The majacraft dealer was able to give me some ideas on how to improve my wheel because she had worked with one before. Now I just need to try them, but it is just easier to pick up the drop spindle.
Maybe just, Maybe someday we can spin together well we tell our "yarns" to each other.
paweaver
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Post by joanne2 on Jul 26, 2010 10:33:09 GMT -5
I'm looking forward to seeing the beginnings of your weaving on the new loom you're warping up there! Yes I do understand about crafting and the room (and time) that it all takes. Glad that you have something that is useful and functional going on. I used to dream about making those woven rag rugs! Never did do that though.. pretty rugs they are. We have some women in the vicinity that are very into the weaving. Just a few here and there.. I would have to travel a ways to go to regular spinning guild meetings.. have once a long time ago now and holy there were at least a dozen women there with every wheel you could imagine. No I have never spun on the Majacraft. I can't picture one of those specifically now. My wheels are all in the 300. range.. think my last one was higher new, but I bought it used for 300.. looks just like new so that was a savings.. not really I gotta start using it.. just takes a LOT of roving to spin with it.. so not sure that was such a great buy. I do know that for me spinning a heavy yarn seemed to be the way to go to knit up stuff that my kids COULD use.. that is IF they wore sweaters! Which they seldom do! well anyway the lanolin in heavy outdoor sweaters are kinda what I had in mind when I bought it and it's the only wheel that makes a 'fat' yarn specifically. I just recieved notice of the classes to be had at the end of Sept at our local fairgrounds.. it's a wonderful event.. boy the classes are expensive! 80. for learning to do the fairisle knitting.. wow. I can teach myself to carry the yarns and change colors while knitting for that kind of loot. Didn't see any sockmaking classes. Have you seen those sock knitting machines?? those are awesome. I could see doing that too.. seriously if one had to process spin and knit it really takes some dedication to the art to be real productive at it. Let alone skilled. Boy wish you and I could attend one of those fiber festivals together some time, Weaver. You would just be flabberghasted at the VAST amounts of fiber stuff.. 50 vendors show up for this doin's.. anyway think I may just get some wool spinning here soon! should! Glad to hear that you're doing really well with your drop spindle. Sounds like you are. I saw some lady that taught that about 10 years.. maybe longer back now, she taught drop spindle spinning and like holy smokes that lady was really adept at it. I mean it was very easy to see that she could spin up a great deal or cordage quickly with her spindle and the cool part is that theyr'e so portable.. they travel easier than the 'traveller wheel'. I once took one of those to a drs office and the male nurse that was there tried it and spun beautifully right off.. he told me that him and his wife had several rescue llama's at their farm.. lol. swore he'd never spun before. I was impressed with the evenness of the single he was spinning! This is a pic of the country spinner I bought last year. One doesn't even need to ply this single to knit with it.. Pretty cool huh? bet one could use it for weft too.. have a thickly woven material. Bet pillows or cushions could be made fairly quickly with the thick yarn. Simple looms can be made any size. Things knit with afghan hooks sometimes give the appearance of having been woven rather than knitted too.. hmm.. been awhile Weaver. This is a pic of the last fiber I 'harvested'. That young bull bison's fur.. looks to be the soft undercoat. It's quite short in length. I KNOW it could be spun however. I have a Fricke Petite drum carder around here. Some things you just save and treasure if not use daily! I would NEVER sell it or my wheels. Just hoarding it I guess.. Should use them both and this nice fiber and see what I can come up with. whatever it is would either have to be mixed in with some wool or spun fairly finely being so short! Time consuming to spin fine. patience and perseverence!
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