Wed, 06/10/2009 - 14:45

Deanna (not verified)

When I only need a few of the treadles.  I pick the ones that are where my feet fit the best.  Usually for four treadle patterns, I skip the center two and use the next two on each side off the center ones.  My legs and feet fit there well and it is comfortable for me to weave.

Deanna

Wed, 06/10/2009 - 14:49

Deanna (not verified)

How do you keep the tools that you need to use close to the loom.  I have been thinking of a basket, bucket, a tied roll, or a plastic carrier.  I have looms in several different rooms and I want to have the tools I need by the loom and not floating between places.  I hate to have to stop to go find the needed tool.  I do keep the warping tools with the warping board and they only appear at the loom when needed, but there are several items that are needed repeatedly and I want to have them at the loom in a tidy way.

Also how do you take the tools to a workshop/class?  What do you take, do you have a special device to hold them?

Deanna

Wed, 06/10/2009 - 14:57

Deanna (not verified)

My new tool

Some months ago on weave tech, a weaver found some great paper clips in a japanese office supply store to hold the heddles back  so they don't walk to the weaving heddles.  I have not Japanese office supply close and decided to roam the office stores to find something...I did.  A great paper clip.  It's called "Supaclip" by a company called Rapesco.  I found it in Office Depo.

Its like the bullnose paper holders, but without the handles to open them and it's very small.  I comes with a dispenser to put them on and they just fit the metal heddle rods on my looms.  They are easily put on with the despenser and come off just as easily.  They are reusuable, you just relear the dispenser and put them on again.

I will try to get a picture of the package and the clips in use.  (I need a little direction from my computer helper to get pictures on.)

Deanna

Wed, 06/10/2009 - 15:27

Lodi_Weaver (not verified)

I have a small rolling cart next to my loom.  It has a couple of wire drawers that I use to hold shuttles and bobbins/pirns.  There are also two shelves that I can stack other items on so they are close at hand.

I also have a magnet on the castle that I use to hold pins, scissors, etc. for ease of reach.  I can also use it with a small metal clip I got at the hardware store for holding my draft & notes as I weave.

I haven't really done any workshops so I can't speak so much to that.  I would probably use a small plastic storage tub and just try to organize things in there as best I could.  A cheap plastic tool box or tackle box might work well if you find one large enough to hold shuttles below and the little separated sections for holding your sundries.

Wed, 06/10/2009 - 15:58

Thumper70 (not verified)

I just got the second heddle for my loom and have been experimenting a bit. I understand that one can make patterns - I'm looking in vain for a book, a site, etc. that might give me ideas for how to mazimise the "power of patterns" with my little loom. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Wed, 06/10/2009 - 16:01

Geodyne (not verified)

Hi all, I'm Geo, a weaver in Cambridgeshire. I shoe-horn weaving in around full-time work and the rest of my life. I've been weaving for about 4 years, and also weave with handspun a lot. I have an 8-shaft countermarche Glimakra, although I keep lusting after a mechanical dobby.

I'm very interested in the number of people who are doing/have done the HNC at Bradford, as I'd very much like to try doing that at some stage. I'd like very much to hear more about it!

Pleased to see my fellow blogger Cally here!

Wed, 06/10/2009 - 16:04

villageweaver (not verified)

Hello Michigan!,

As a new fan of ravelry, I was really excited that we weavers have our own dedicated social network. The creators of Weavolution have done a great job - It's an exciting prospect to be able to share and learn with and from each other. 

Let's make this Michigan Group vibrant!

I'm in Metamora which is located 20 miles east of Flint.

There are many of us in this Great Lake State...who and where are you?

Talk soon.

Mary

Wed, 06/10/2009 - 16:11

ilaine (not verified)

Know any good yarn shops for weaving yarn?

School Products in Manhattan carries mill-end cones, but the supply has been getting sketchier in latter years. I'm gathering that is a problem everywhere.

Wed, 06/10/2009 - 16:11

ilaine (not verified)

Know any good yarn shops for weaving yarn?

School Products in Manhattan carries mill-end cones, but the supply has been getting sketchier in latter years. I'm gathering that is a problem everywhere.

Wed, 06/10/2009 - 16:12

FybeRae (not verified)

  When I heard about this weaving community I figured I'd come look around a little, but since I only dabble in weaving I didn't think I'd be joining.   How surprised I am that I'm having a BLAST here already!  LOL!  Discovering there are places here even for "bits and pieces" weavers like me was a real surprise.  I like to weave small things with "normal" materials, but  I LOVE to weave "just stuff" like wire and plants and paper and such just for the process and for decor use!  While I wouldn't really call many of the little art pieces I've woven "fabric", they are still woven and it's great to find "comrads" in art weaving here!