I’ve been thinking about weaving for the last year or two… but since we moved from a good-sized house into a shithole apartment and I’m under-employed, buying a loom is very stupid on many counts at the moment – besides I don’t even know where to start with the various kinds/types/styles of looms and what I ultimately might like best.
I was a very crafty child and was fortunate to have parents who encouraged it, so I would get various tools and supplies for my birthday – rug hooking kits, cross stitch stuff, beads, millions of yards of embroidery floss for friendship bracelets, and the like. I can’t remember the details of when I got this loom – maybe the late 1970s or early ’80s? It is German or Germanic and I can’t imagine where my mom found it in the Midwest back then. Fast forward to a few months ago, and I found it in their basement where it had miraculously survived their last slash and burn move, and voila! I have a loom. So ok, it is a kiddie toy, but I’ve made a couple of smallish strips of fabric from it and they have promise to become part a larger item – I’m thinking of incorporating them into bags. And the loom has a good slot size (actual term?) for handspun, so it’s great for using up leftovers not much good for anything else – I’m pleasantly surprised how much further yardage goes in weaving rather than knitting.
But now I think I’ve been bitten by a small weaving bug… I wish there was a loom fairy or I’d be lucky enough to find one thrifting – I’ve heard tales of that actually happening (the thrifting bit, not the fairy)…
ASTITCHMATISM 