Hobnobbin with Hemp Bobbins – Blog Post
We LOVE weaving with hemp and love the fabrics it produces. We have several kits that use a combination of hemp and cotton to produce amazing towel fabrics. Check out the Tidepool Treasures Towels, Splash! Towels, and Enchanted Windowpane towels for a taste of weaving with hemp and cotton yarns. Our Anni Alber’s Masters Towel […]
How to USE a Color Gamp – Blog Post
Congratulations! You have woven a color gamp! Now, what do you do with it? It is a gorgeous piece of fabric…it looks great as a wall hanging, or as a throw in your favorite chair, and your grandbaby thinks it is to “drool” for. But, what else can you do with it? Our favorite reason […]
Arranging to Weave a Color Gamp – Blog Post
Deciding how to arrange the colors in a Color Gamp can lead to many enjoyable hours of planning, thinking and rearranging. The purpose of a color gamp is to see the interactions of the color in the weave structure. In a purely academic way, the way the colors are arranged in a color gamp doesn’t […]
What is a Color Gamp? Blog Post
We have been weaving gamps for a long time, and we love to answer to the question “What is a gamp?”. A color gamp is a cloth that contains a set of color stripes in the warp that are crossed by the same set of color stripes in the weft. The resulting fabric will show […]
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 […]
Fusing Thermoplastic Yarns–by Giovanna Imperia – Blog Post
Giovanna Imperia has been a master of creating interesting fabrics from interesting yarns. We convinced her to talk about a special kind of yarn: Thermoplastics. by Giovanna Imperia What are thermoplastic yarns? While polyester is often classified as a thermoplastic, I tend to separate it from a class of industrial materials where high heat is […]
Support Your Local Yarn Shop!
This past year has taught us many lessons. Among all the lessons, a few have emerged as cornerstones in our lives…Family and Friends can help you through hard times, Good friends should be cherished, and of course…Yarn is a necessity for life. We are so grateful for being part of the well kept secret of […]
Springtime Hoppenings
We are so fortunate to be part of an amazing artistic community of weavers. Lunatic Fringe Yarn’s latest kit (Hoppy Spring–Bunny and Towels) is the perfect example of weavers/artists feeding one another’s creative fires. After the fun that we had with the Coral Challenge and the Sweetheart Towels, we were thinking of another seasonally themed […]
Spockloth…What is a Spockloth?
Sometimes we misinterpret things that people say, and it can lead to hilarious thoughts! Often in our Lunatic world, it can lead to more weaving. Spockloth is one such word that sparked a whole weaving exploration for Katzy. Here is her story of one such misinterpretation. by Katzy “Spockloth”? The other day a local weaver […]