Floating Along – Blog Post
There is often debate at our local guild meeting about whether to use floating selvage threads. The consensus seems to be, like most things these days…it depends! Michele recently wrote a blog about Diane Mortensen and her dislike of floating selvage threads. Katzy has been collecting opinions about floating selvage threads for many years and […]
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 […]
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 […]
Yarn of Many Colors -Blog Post
Variegated yarns. They are delightful to look at, but what do you do with them? We have been asked this question over the years, and Katzy took a dive into what to do with them and has a few thoughts. Lovely, variegated yarns. by Katzy Luhring Maurice Brassard has come out with amazing colors of […]
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 […]
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, […]
Scarves from 5/2 Mercerized Cotton
As we were working on the gray Chameleon scarves, using 3 strands of 10/2 mercerized cotton yarn, it suddenly occurred to us that we already had the perfect yarn for a gray scale scarf. It was even foolishly apparent: we could use 5/2 yarn from our gray matter kit! Those yarns already have 5 shades of […]