Fiber Arts Friday and Crafty Friday Folks
On my travels through the InterWeb I came across some fun new things to try out. I am always interested in weaving and love my mini loom but I want to make bigger things than a 1-2 inch wide strip. So, I traveled through the cyberness and found some fun projects for kids making a weaving loom out of cardboard.
The idea is simple really. Take a piece of cardboard, cut ½ in slits every ¼ in down one side and again opposite that side. String up your yarn and start weaving over/under. I’m surprised really that I didn’t learn this in Girl Scouts. I guess I was more interested in starting fires than girly things. Here’s a link to the tutorial I used.
So, tada! My first ever woven coaster.
Coasters are fine and good but bigger, I want BIGGER! I like the idea of cardboard looms so there really must be something that I could make using one. Of course the fruits of the web were bountiful yet again. I present to you links to wonderful documentation on how to make your own cardboard triangle loom.
Building a Cardboard Triangle Loom
Weaving on a Cardboard Triangle Loom
http://www.sandiveracres.com/fiberCreations.html has several beautiful creations off a loom she made. Here’s a photo of her loom and the shawl she made
It appears that the Warkworth Spinners & Weavers Guild in Warkworth, Ontario are the authors of the above files and I thank them tremendously for providing such detailed information. I will be working on making my loom and weaving on it over the next few weeks.
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