Peachfuzz! Pantone Color of 2024! – Blog Post
Pantone has released their color of the year for 2024! This coming year’s selection is a gentle color from Pantone, called Peach Fuzz. Pantone number 13-1023 Peach Fuzz captures our desire to nurture ourselves and others. As they say on their website: “Pantone’s Peach Fuzz is a velvety gentle peach tone whose all-embracing spirit […]
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 […]
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 […]
Viva Magenta! Pantone Color of 2023! – Blog Post
The draft shown here uses our Tubular Spectrum™ yarns in 10 Red Purple, Sky Blue, Violet, Coral, Very Light Gray and Bleached White. This draft is adapted from our Toasty Turned Tacquete Cowls. We have a printable version of this draft if you would like to print it out. Click here. Pantone has released […]
Plying Lesson: Make Your Fabrics Soar! – Blog Post
Fringe can add an extra style element to your garments, handbags, scarves or just about anything that needs a little extra zing! Plus, when you twist or ply the fringe, the fringe will be more durable and look nice for a long time, even with many washings of your handwoven treasures. We use plied fringe […]
Pantone Color of 2022! Blog Post
Pantone just released their color of the year for 2022! This coming year’s selection is a brand-new color from Pantone, called Very Peri. Pantone number 17-3938. Pantone chose this color to describe the courage that encourages personal inventiveness and creativity. As they say on their website: “PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri displays a spritely, joyous attitude […]
New Year, New Baby Socks
Knitting in the New Year for a New Baby! Michele’s niece, Jessy, has been a helper in the Lunatic Fringe Yarns booth at yarn shows, where some of you may have met her. In December, Jessy and husband Alex became the proud parents of a beautiful baby girl, Matilda Moon, and we wanted to knit […]
Shrinking Your Warp: Part 3
As we talked about in the first two parts of this shrinking your warp series, some warps are straight forward: the repeat is regular and not too big, plus the stripes or colors are regular or nonexistent. Easy-peasy to shrink them down. Some drafts are more complicated, but the same tools are all it takes […]
LOONatic Mug Rugs
Michele, the Traveling Lunatic, is spending much of her time in Southern California and getting to know the weaving communities there. This blog post and Mug Rug pattern comes from her: I am enjoying being part of the Southern California Handweavers Guild. The energy and creativity of the members is amazing, and mentors and eager […]
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