Joyce at Rigid Heddle Weaving.com has a terrific website for rigid heddle loom weavers. I first found h
er when some of her videos came up during a You Tube.com search for rigid heddle weaving. That was quite a while ago and I instantly subscribed to her You Tube channel. I was so enthusiastic about the videos I didn’t realize until TODAY … duh … that she has a very informative web site also.
About 3 or 4 months ago I tried to come up with a simple rug for my DHs bathroom. I cut a king size sheet … old with no matching bottom sheet… into 1 inch strips and began to weave. Weaving it was fine, but it was neither thick enough or tight enough. But… I think I have found the answer.
Joyce has a video up showing how to do pile loop weaving. Perhaps instead of the flat weave that is shown in the picture, the pile loop weave will give enough body to the rug that it will be usable without being too thick. I’ll let you how it comes out.
Have a great week end.. ;o)
might like to use them. If they are used for personal use… that’s great. If they are used to sell the products ..well… I hope millions are made, all the kids are sent to college and that 4th house in Tuscany is available to be bought. The fact is that those patterns were done easily by me. I did not have to take a lot of notes, work out all the sizes and combinations that would work for everyone in the universe. 
my grandmother used to wear when she was hanging out clothes. Well… that’s all well and good, but this project all of a sudden turned into a larger reversible apron to wear while cooking… how does that happen? Anyway, it did and everything went along really well until I started to sew the top to the bottom and realized that I had not left a seam allowance to do that..!! It was put on the shelf until today since I was just not in the mood for a seam ripper at that moment…. If you are in an apron making mood, try looking at all the 50+ free patterns that 
So I came back inside and decided to double ply the last …sob!… of the Chocolate Merino Lamb pencil roving that I had finished spinning the night before. It was on the Niddy Noddy so I rolled it on my thumb into a center pull ball and began to try to ply it… but something seemed to be really out of kilter with my spinning wheel. When I couldn’t find the problem, I got out my Ashford beginner’s spindle and started to ply it with that. Then sweet DH came along and… wondering what I was doing…checked out the spinning wheel. It seems that when I put the bobbin on I did not check it and had left a rubber band on the whorl end of it. (I use a rubber band on the top whorl ends between two bobbins to put a little tension on them when I am plying using two bobbins. ) Anyway, at long last it is finished, washed with shampoo and condidtioned with conditioner… Can’t decide whether to be happy or upset that it’s finally all spun up…lol
Now I’m back again to that flax… deep sigh. I think I have figured it out, though. It would really be nice to have a spinning whiz around to ask questions…but alas…not. Anyway, I have read that as it is finished and washed it becomes less stiff…and I certainly hope so because this stuff is like soft wire! This is all I had time to do last night before bedtime, but will try to fill this bobbin today. Can’t wait to see how it works up. Since this is a vegetable fiber and not protein, I don’t know for sure how I will dye it. Kool Aid won’t work with vegetable fibers…
