Top 5 Things We Learned in 2024
Christina looks back through the Little Looms issues and articles from 2024 and shares just 5 of the incredible tips and techniques we published in 2024.
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Christina looks back through the Little Looms issues and articles from 2024 and shares just 5 of the incredible tips and techniques we published in 2024.
Did you know there’s more than one way to wind a stick shuttle? Learn how to wind your stick shuttle with more yarn, and less bulk, so you can weave more and worry less.
Sometimes the best solution to a mistake is to rip things apart and start over again.
Anne wanted to weave with a yak/silk blend in the warp, but was worried about the damage the heddle might do to the fuzzy yarn. Instead of giving up, she applied sizing, a temporary coating designed to protect yarns while weaving.
Want to avoid giving someone two skeins of yarn and telling the recipient it will be a scarf . . . one day? Here are our tips for gift planning.
You may want to add these seven easy to find items to your weaving equipment stash.
When spinning for tapestry consider this: What kind of reflectance do I want in the finished yarn? And what yarn properties will best allow me to create the desired image?
Christina gives tips for weaving with an extra-fluffy yarn on the pin loom and her trick for weaving thick yarn through those last few rows. (Hint: It involves dental floss!)
Susan prefers to direct warp when weaving on the rigid-heddle loom, and will go to great lengths to avoid during otherwise. Here she recounts a few times when direct warping was anything but.
My working memory is bad, so over the years I have developed methods to help me keep track of pick-up sequences.
Sometimes what you get from a course isn’t part of the course.
Autumn might even be too late to start holiday weaving but there are some projects that don't take a huge amount of time.