Dark Side of the Moon – Blog Post
Hear the softly spoken magic spells. Playtime is a necessary part of our creative lives. Sometimes it comes while we are working on other projects, during unexpected down times, and sometimes it is scheduled into our days. How ever that play time is structured, it often leads to wonderful projects that we didn’t anticipate at […]
Weaving the Tequila Sunrise Scarf – Blog Post
Learning to weave can be exciting, challenging and rewarding. All of us have been beginning weavers at the beginning of our weaving careers, and many of us have forgotten how fresh and exciting, and intimidating that experience can be. We Lunatics are fortunate to have some new, young weavers in the shop, and we wanted […]
Double Rainbow on Zoom – Blog Post
For us here at Lunatic Fringe Yarns, one of the best parts of the COVID 19 pandemic was that Jennifer Moore approached us to host her Double Rainbow classes. A year or so before the pandemic, Jennifer had contacted us about providing kits for her students in the Double Rainbow classes that she was teaching […]
Weaving Pleats – Blog Post
As part of our Master Weaver Series, Dianne Totten designed the delightful Pretty in Pleats vest. The kit uses 10/2 Tubular Spectrum yarn in a luscious riot of colors for the warp, and 8/2 Orlec for the weft. Throughout this fabric, you weave a plain-weave ground cloth using the Orlec yarn. Every 4 threads, you […]
Dimensional Cloth Workshop – Blog Post
We Lunatics have gone to a lot of conferences over the 30+ years that we have been in business. However, it isn’t very often that we give ourselves the time to participate in the classes offered at the conferences. This year at IWC in Logan Utah, we sprang our fearless leader, Katzy, from booth duty so […]
On the Road Again! – Blog Post
The Lunatics took the show on the road last weekend and wowed the crowds at WeFF, the annual sale/show/classes/gathering of the Southern California Handweavers Guild. The Big Guild in Southern California! We reconnected with old friends and made new ones talking about fiber projects with new weavers, weaving teachers and experienced weavers, as well as […]
Have you tried EZ-Spin cotton? – Blog Post
Ready to Spin? We are thrilled to announce that we are now the exclusive suppliers of EZ-spin cotton! Lura Moore and Jill Holbrook, the owners of Brookmoore Creations have passed the cotton spinning torch to us at Lunatic Fringe Yarns. The EZ-Spin cotton sliver is a wonderful complement to our own American Maid™ Cotton yarns. […]
How to make a lift plan! – Blog Post
“HELP!!!! I don’t have treadles!!!!!” If you have a direct tie-up loom or a table loom, you need to create a lift plan from the draft to know how to weave the fabric. A lift plan combines the tie up and treadling to tell you exactly which harnesses go up for each pick. It is […]
Happy Valentines Day! – Blog Post
Weaving pickup on an inkle loom takes some patience and has a bit of a learning curve. Missy has been learning to weave on the inkle loom over the past year, and this is the first pickup pattern she selected. Missy’s muse for this pattern is on page 99 in Anne Dixon’s book: The Weaver’s […]
Lunar Year of the Rabbit – Blog Post
Welcome to the Lunar Year of the Water Rabbit!! In the Lunar Calendar, this is the year of the Water Rabbit. Bunnies Galore! It feels a bit full circle to have the rabbit again in our universe. We began creating bunnies with handwoven cloth back in 2019. Michele had the wonderful fortune of working with […]