Easy Sew Plarn Tote Shopping Bag
This is how to sew a plarn tote. You can do this with any fabric, just hem the raw edges or line it. With weaving, you can make the fabric the exact size and no hemming required. Weave plarn (or any material) fabric about 18" - 19" wide (your preference how wide). Make a 1" header, weave 34" and then make another 1" header for a total of 36" of cloth. Zig-zag the headers to keep them from unraveling. Make handles, you'll need 2. Your preference as to width and length. I make them anywhere from 42" or longer and about 2" wide, each. I find that wide handles is easier on the hands, especially of you're going to use these bags for grocery shopping. These bags can handle a LOT of weight. Sew on the handles to the right side. Sew the side and bottom seam. You can use the tote as is or square off the corners. See video for squaring off the corners. Enjoy your tote!
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Added: 07/25/2011 by
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Warp a Floor Loom Front to Back
This is how I warp my floor loom front to back. The method for beaming the warp via "Crank and Yank" can also be applied to a RH loom.
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Easier to use than a warping board! You can put this together and start using it in less than 10 minutes.
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Warp Chains Using a Warping Board
This is how I make warp chains using a warping board. I like to use my inkle loom as a warping board.
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This is a child's loom, so cute and easy to weave on. It's a rigid heddle on a counterbalance mechanism. I'll be applying this same principal of the counterbalance mechanism to my full size rigid heddle loom frame. Can't wait to get started building it.
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Added: 02/01/2010 by
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Weaving with string heddles on a rigid heddle loom frame. Easier than you think!
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Added: 01/28/2010 by
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Mini Houndstooth: Pinwheel Pattern
Easy to weave...tromp as writ...weave the weft the same as the wrap! For pinwheel, alternate 2 dark and 2 light colored threads in the warp and weft, that's all there is to it!
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Added: 01/28/2010 by
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Pattern Weaving with a Pick Up Stick
In this video I will show you weaving with a pick up stick behind the heddle to achieve a pattern in the weave. The stick is going 2 under and then 2 over the slot threads. I move the stick forward with the heddle up and pass the shuttle through the shed. Then I put the heddle in the up position again, but move the stick back and pass the shuttle through the shed. Then I move the heddle down and pass the shuttle though the shed. This process is repeated to achieve the pattern shown in the video.
I hope this video has helped someone. I couldn't find any videos or clear instructions with photographs anywhere showing this procedure.
If you know of a video showing how to make patterns in the weave using a pick up stick, please, please contact me...because I have spent hours on the internet searching for this and the only things I could find were "Buy my Book" kind of links or vague written instructions that I couldn't wrap my head around especially since there were no accompanying videos/pictures.
...I am an avid Google user and I could NOT find any FREE information ANYWHERE about this procedure which included photographs and/or videos.
So, if you like to support FREE information via the internet, please stop by http://rigidheddleweaving.com and http://tabletweaver.com when you have time! :)
Pattern Code: U = Heddle Up D = Heddle Down U+S = Heddle Up and Stick forward (flat) SE = Heddle neutral with stick forward but turned on edge ---------------------------------------- Warp: Pick up every other thread. U, D, U+S, D, U, SE. Repeat. ---------------------------------------- Warp: Pick up 2, Skip 2. U, SE, U, SE, U, D, U+S, D, U+S Repeat.
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Added: 01/28/2010 by
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