Designer Spotlight Blog Post – Deb Essen
Happy Spring everyone! Welcome back to our Designer Spotlight series. This week’s feature comes from Deb Essen, a name you have surely heard if you have attended Convergence or regional conference. Deb loves to teach! You may also know her amazing kits with prewound warps available on our website. When Deb isn’t travelling the country […]
Designer Spotlight Blog Post – Liz Gipson
Welcome back to our Designer Spotlight! This week’s feature is from Liz Gipson, known better as Yarnworker (aka the Rigid Heddle Queen). Liz has been busy the last few years modernizing the way we learn to weave. She has been offering weave-alongs for nearly a decade, inviting weavers to tackle aspirational projects among a community […]
Warping Vertically! Blog Post
Do you like to wind long warps? Have you ever been ready to take the warp off the warping board only to bend down and discover that you missed a pass on the lower levels of the warping board? Arghhh! Now a few warp threads are shorter than the whole rest of the warp! What […]
Designer Spotlight Blog Post – Madelyn van der Hoogt
Welcome back to our Designer Spotlight Series! Today’s spotlight is from the incredible Madelyn Van der Hoogt. Madelyn has always had the heart of a teacher, and her love of weaving and teaching has taken her on a journey filled with transformations! Since her early days in California, Madelyn has always given back to the […]
A Whole Lot of Counting Going On! – Blog Post
Weavers are always counting. Counting warp ends as we wind our warps. Recounting those warp threads, heddles and dents as we prepare our looms for weaving. And counting as we weave, passing the shuttle from one side to another. Years ago, when we first started stocking the color Coral in our Tubular Spectrum™ line of […]
In Praise of the Floss Threader-Blog Post
As we work in the studio, we often find non-weaving tools helpful in our projects. Michele’s perennial favorite is a dental floss threader. These thin flexible plastic devices were originally designed to assist in using dental floss with orthodontics and dentures and are available wherever you buy dental floss. Each floss threader has a stiff […]
Designer Spotlight Blog Post – Jennifer Moore
Welcome back to our Designer Spotlight Series. What a delight it has been for us to share the personal stories of influential people in the weaving world. This week we are featuring Jennifer Moore. You may have taken a workshop from her at a Convergence or through your guild. Or perhaps with us online via […]
Lunar Year of the Wood Snake- Blog Post
Welcome to the Lunar Year of the Wood Snake!! The Snake represents wisdom, knowledge, intelligence, intuition and creativity. Snakes are also associated with good luck, prosperity, fertility and longevity. And wood represents flexibility and adaptability, growth and expansion. It is an element that supports problem solving and creativity with an emphasis on harmony and improving […]
Challenging Warp – Blog Post
When you are learning to weave, premade kits can be a time saver. You get all the yarn that you need for the project and the instructions tell you how to be successful in completing the project. Here at Lunatic Fringe Yarns, in addition to having kits for projects at all levels, we also have […]
Designer Spotlight Blog Post – Sheila O’Hara
Welcome back! It’s a NEW Year, and it’s time for a new Designer Spotlight! Sheila O’Hara is a name you can say in the world of weaving, and MANY will know exactly who you are talking about. For 6 decades she has set the bar for Textile Arts. Her pieces have been featured in magazines, […]