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Newbies are newbies, no matter the craft
This post should've been made two weeks ago. Alas, the tab where I started to compose the entry got buried amongst other tabs, and I forgot about it until I unearthed it today. It's possible that I should go through my open tags more frequently.
Anyway! My first weaving project ended up being a placemat for my snack tray/dinner table. Overall, it's not bad, but my suspicions were proved correct: beginning weaving projects and beginning knitting projects have a lot in common.
Yarn: Sugar & Cream in Sage Green and some multi that included green
Reed: 8dpi
Ends: 120
After screwing up my first attempt at warping -- roughly equivalent to casting on wrong -- I did manage to get it right the second time. Er, mostly. You'll notice in the picture that roughly halfway down, it appears to change colors. That's not the camera being weird. That's me making the newbie mistake of forgetting that dye lots exist. Oops.
That's a closeup of what it looked like when it was still on the loom and thus was still under quite a bit of tension. Now that it's off the loom and has had a chance to relax, all the little holes have disappeared. Of course, relaxing and pulling together to fill in the holes means that it's now too short, but being too short pretty much fits in with the fact that it's an inch narrower on one end than on the other as well. Like I said: newbie knitters and newbie weavers have a lot in common.
And because I like the photo, here's what it looks like when you're actually weaving something. The front bar on the loom rests on your legs, the middle hangs over empty space, and then the back end rests on a table. (Or, if your decoration scheme is Early College Student, as is mine, on the snack tray. It serves many purposes.) The warp yarn goes through slots and holes in the heddle -- the white thing. The yarn in the slots can move up and down freely, but the yarn in the holes has to move with the heddle, so when you lift the heddle up or down, you form the two different paths -- sheds -- for your other yarn to go through. Presto! Weaving.
Project #2 was a scarf made from Noro Kureyon sock yarn that I had in my stash. More on that once it's actually finished. Right now, it's off the loom, but I'm waiting for a fringe twister to arrive so that I can do that before I wash it. I'm afraid it'll felt to itself if I don't.
Anyway! My first weaving project ended up being a placemat for my snack tray/dinner table. Overall, it's not bad, but my suspicions were proved correct: beginning weaving projects and beginning knitting projects have a lot in common.
Yarn: Sugar & Cream in Sage Green and some multi that included green
Reed: 8dpi
Ends: 120
After screwing up my first attempt at warping -- roughly equivalent to casting on wrong -- I did manage to get it right the second time. Er, mostly. You'll notice in the picture that roughly halfway down, it appears to change colors. That's not the camera being weird. That's me making the newbie mistake of forgetting that dye lots exist. Oops.
That's a closeup of what it looked like when it was still on the loom and thus was still under quite a bit of tension. Now that it's off the loom and has had a chance to relax, all the little holes have disappeared. Of course, relaxing and pulling together to fill in the holes means that it's now too short, but being too short pretty much fits in with the fact that it's an inch narrower on one end than on the other as well. Like I said: newbie knitters and newbie weavers have a lot in common.
And because I like the photo, here's what it looks like when you're actually weaving something. The front bar on the loom rests on your legs, the middle hangs over empty space, and then the back end rests on a table. (Or, if your decoration scheme is Early College Student, as is mine, on the snack tray. It serves many purposes.) The warp yarn goes through slots and holes in the heddle -- the white thing. The yarn in the slots can move up and down freely, but the yarn in the holes has to move with the heddle, so when you lift the heddle up or down, you form the two different paths -- sheds -- for your other yarn to go through. Presto! Weaving.
Project #2 was a scarf made from Noro Kureyon sock yarn that I had in my stash. More on that once it's actually finished. Right now, it's off the loom, but I'm waiting for a fringe twister to arrive so that I can do that before I wash it. I'm afraid it'll felt to itself if I don't.
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It is fun to play with. The biggest problem, if you can call it that, it that it goes a lot faster than knitting or crochet, which means you can do more in the same amount of time... which has the potential to be expensive.
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