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 […]
Carry Your Weft Yarns – Blog Post
Weaving with lots of weft color changes means that you will have ends to deal with. If you don’t want to stop and start your weft yarns all the time, you can carry the non-working weft yarns up the selvage edges while they are still attached. Secure Your Weft You can choose to either secure […]
Starting and Stopping Colors in your Color Gamp–Split Plies – Blog Post
When you weave a color gamp, you weave weft stripes. And each time you start or stop weaving with one color and are ready for a new color, you have to deal with the weft ends. There are several techniques to do deal with all those weft ends, and one of these techniques is to […]
Cotton and Silk Cowl…Wow! Wrap yourself in luxury! Blog Post
Soft, light, airy and with a beautiful luster. And enough fabric to be a soft, elegant cowl. This cowl is just what Lunadette needs for a night out on the town! We wove samples for Tien Chiu’s Discover Gradients Weave Along in August 2021, using 10/2 Tubular Spectrum™ Yarn. After one set of samples was […]
What is the Difference Between Worsted and Woolen Spun Yarns?
What’s the difference between worsted and woolen spun yarns? It’s all in the preparation of the fiber. All Jagger Spun yarns are worsted spun. The fibers in a worsted spun yarn are combed to be parallel and uniform before spinning whereas the fiber for woolen-spun yarns are more casually arranged. Because the fibers are parallel, […]
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 […]
Green Line Scarf or Cowl
We received a big box of Jaggerspun, Organic Green Line yarn on luscious 50 g skeins a couple weeks ago. All of us around the Lunatic world were brimming with ideas of what to do with this lovely yarn and what colors we would we weave first. The race to the loom was on! Happily, […]
Knitting Yarns vs Weaving Yarns
Which of our yarns can you use for knitting, and how do the yarns compare with the standard knitting terms such as Sport Weight or DK weight? You certainly can knit with weaving yarn, and weave with knitting yarns, but a little knowledge about the yarns and their purpose will help your knitting and weaving […]
Waulking a Blanket…Part 1
It seemed like a good idea at the time… Melissa Weaver Dunning will be teaching Tartan Weaving at the Florida Tropical Weavers Guild Conference at Lake Yale, Florida over St. Patrick’s weekend in March (16-19). FTWG asked if we could arrange for her to do a program of her ‘Old Songs from Ireland, Scotland and […]
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