More weaving on the Craftabelle Loom.

 Hello All, I hope this finds you doing well. Work has been steady as usual and some changes are being made and since I told my best friend first(you know who you are) ;) I can say now that I am running housekeeping at my place of employment. It's running smooth so far and I enjoy working with the crew I have there even though we are still shorthanded BUT this post isn't about my work It's about my WEAVING lol

Still working on the tension on the weft and come up with something that I feel is working for me at this time. I took a piece of thin flat dowel and cut 2 pieces and placed under the first warp thread and 1 on the other side and learning how to create "bubbles" or "hills" so that I get the proper tension, once that becomes second nature to me then I can probably remove the thin dowels and my tension will be right.

You can see the lighter   ^ pieces of wood aka dowel under the  ^1st and last warp threads, that's what I am using to get my tension right. So far so good

The yarn I am using is from Michaels. It's CraftSmart Value yarn in Reef or Dark Teal as some may see it

This is the finished piece

Looks much better and more of a square compared to the last ones I wove LOL

I also have a video over on Youtube where I am weaving this square, I am using my Galaxy Tab A and it's autofocus and seems to record up close I apologize for that. I am still learning the video part of the camera feature. 

Past weaving squares as listed in my last blog post

such a mess with this one. It's Bernat Mix Home in Coastal Cabin color different textured yarns which brings me to my next thing MORE YARN coming lol

I love the teal and burgundy mixed yarn at the bottom of this one and it's T-Shirt Yarn!

I found some on Etsy and it's sitting in the PO now ready to be picked up. Going to try it as well in a square. pretty blue to teal color is what the picture looked like. plus some other "flat yarn my best friend found for me on the Joann site- Hoooked Zpagetti Yarn

I'm not going to get too many projects going too soon as I want to work on this weaving and actually do a blanket out of these squares then it's back to my Swedish Weaving and try to get a couple of those done this year.....

Until Next Time....

Happy Stitching and May you have smokin' needles...xxxx

https://youtu.be/FQ42UPJMDk4

 

Weaving on the Craftabelle Loom

 Hello again all, I hope this finds you doing as well as expected with all the craziness in the world.

I've been doing some weaving again and still in the learning phase, need to work on the tension big time.

Any tips and tricks I should take into consideration???

I've weaved 4 squares to be used to make a blanket with some yarn that I am not using for now. 

Like with cross stitching, you can never have enough yarn stash :) It's a start 

This isn't including what I have kitted up in swedish weaving projects...

2 of these squares won't be used in the blanket, the white one(left) is made using 100% cotton yarn

the 2nd one was made using the cotton yarn as the warp and color is Patons Classic Wool Roving(beside the white). It will come apart after a while and I don't want the blanket messed up so I'm going to try and find another teal color

Takes around 30 minutes to weave 1 square starting with warping the loom then weaving.....

That's all I have for now

Until Next time Happy Stitching and May you have smokin' needles...xxx

Warping a Craftabelle Wooden Loom Creation Kit

I recently purchased a beginner's weaving loom, I've made my own but they haven't turned out quite right so I found this one on Amazon and decided to try my hand at weaving.

Craftabelle – Wooden Loom Creation Kit

I won't be using the yarn from the Craftabelle kit. I'll be using yarn from Mary Maxim. It's factory mill ends, 1lb. of yarn unbanded. 3 skeins of natural white. This is being used for the warp

Can be found @ Mill Ends

I'll be using the loom to create squares for a patchwork blanket of sorts. with the loom it shouldn't take long to weave them up.

Other yarns I am using are from Michaels and Hobby Lobby, some were found on clearance.

Bernat Mix Home- Coastal Cabin. I haven't found anymore anywhere at the moment, there are other colors available.

Impeccable Yarn- Burgundy

Patrons Classic Wool Roving -  Pacific Teal

Patrons Classic Wool Worsted - New Denim

That's all for now until next time

Happy Stitching and May you have smokin' needles...xxxx