Saturday was dark and rainy, the sort of day that you spend indoors huddled up, moving slowly, drinking warm liquids, binging on movies or a series, and making stuff.
Just the day before, I discovered the Craft in America documentary series, which is probably how I came to the conclusion that it was a good time to learn how to weave.
I’ve done very basic weaving before, although I can’t say that I have ever really known what I was doing. On this occasion, I decided to learn a few proper techniques on a small, wooden loom — called a Todd Loom — purchased for just a couple of dollars at the thrift store. The loom did not come with a box or instructions. However, it did still have a project on it that had been worked by the former owner, so I studied its construction closely before removal, figuring that I could base my approach on what was already there. I also consulted the Weaving for Beginners class by Annabel Wrigley through Creativebug (FYI: this is not a sponsored post for the service) because I wasn’t sure about the processes of switching threads and tying off.
And that is how I spent much of the day: watching Craft in American episodes and manipulating thin threads around other threads. I have not made my way through all of the episodes, but of the ones I did watch, I liked Threads and Quilts best. Messages was not as good as I anticipated, but I really liked the bead work of Joyce Scott.
Cotton fabric and thread dyed with rooibos tea aka red bush, a caffeine-free herb from South Africa that has a very dark, red colour. I drank from the tea and then saved the scraps for a month to make a dye bath, so this would have been much darker had I used it fresh. I also did not use any mordants or pre-treatments.
I also dyed
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