Shout out to Brian Whitley for naming this pattern; his was one that jumped out at me as I read, and stuck with me later on when I wasn’t at the computer. I had a hard time selecting a name f…
Pin loom weaving is really quite simple. There aren't a lot "secrets" to the perfect weave, but there are a few things you may find helpful. Here are some of o
*** This is a PDF pattern, NOT a finished item. *** 15 Black & White Plaid Pattern Designs for Pin Looms 12" is a wonderful collection of patterns to try and weave on the bias doing the simple stitch. The 5 colors of the palette are easy to find in any yarn store: white, light grey, medium grey, dark grey and black. If you own a KAYU multi loom from my shop, this is an incredible tool to explore and develop your weaving skills. *Skill level: beginner *Estimated time each: 1 hour ::: WEAVING LOOM REQUIRED Square loom 12" (30x30cm) *** It is required that the distance between pins is equal, 1 cm or 1/4" is recommended. You can buy the KAYU or ADJUSTABLE WEAVING LOOM from my shop to use this pattern set, find both here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/Ullvuna?ref=shop_sugg§ion_id=21918716 ::: ABOUT THE PATTERN This is a Black & White pattern set that comes with detailed step-by-step instructions, diagrams, pictures and links to more detailed info to weave 15 amazing weaving plaid patterns. I have created a Black & White palette, including shades of gret that you can easily find in yarn stores. This set comes with instructions of Basic Weaving and Color Changing in square pin loom. It also includes a coloring template so you can try your own color combinations. *** You will need Adobe Reader to open this Pattern. The program can be downloaded for Free at www.adobe.com ::: INSTANT DOWNLOAD Once payment is confirmed, the download links will be sent to the e-mail associated with your Etsy account upon notification of payment. There will be no tangible product from this purchase. Please notice that in digital products no refunds are allowed, this is a final sale. ::: LANGUAGES The pattern is in ENGLISH. ::: TERMS OF USE The patterns, diagrams and photographs contained in this document are the property of designer Florencia Campos Correa. This pattern is available for personal use only. No unauthorized reproduction, in whole or in part, or distribution of this pattern or content is allowed. If you decide to sell items made from this pattern, handmade by yourself in a limited number, please, give credit to the designer by adding the following words to your item description and any item you are selling: “This design is handmade by ...(your name)... from a design and pattern by Florencia Campos Correa www.ullvuna.cl". If you need any help with my patterns, please contact me: florencia.campos [!at] ullvuna.cl ©2022 Florencia Campos Correa - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Find more information at: Web: ullvuna.cl Blog: ullvuna.wordpress.com Instagram: @ullvuna Youtube: Pin Loom Menu
To Knot or Not to Knot? This is a tutorial on how to begin a square without tying a knot, how to read a chart and follow a pattern, and how to make BEAUTIFUL squares with even warp and weft distrib…
Weaving on a pin loom is easy and fun! If you've ever wanted to know how to weave with a pin loom, this tutorial has everything you need to know!
WEEK ONE Amber from the Facebook Pin Loom Weaving Support Group we host a weekly weave-along and she asked me to spearhead the project. I’ve never done a needlework-along before, but I said …
Have you tried Zoom Loom Weaving? I'm here to tell you it's hella fun! Take a look at this roundup of unique pin loom projects and give this loom a whirl!
So I did sit down and weave a square in the corner. It actually went better than any went before which can be seen by the end of this post. So here goes. I am assuming that you have read the last t…
for MW So, here’s what I was thinking as I constructed a 49 pins-per-side loom today: “Why don’t all the loommakers send me samples of their looms so I can promote them and extend…
** CLICK ON A THUMBNAIL IMAGE TO DOWNLOAD THE FULL-PAGE PDF ** SQUARE LOOMS 1.2-inch / 1.6-inch / 2.5-inch / 3.25-inch squares (fine sett looms) 2.5-inch / 3.25-inch squares (fine sett looms) 1-inc…
Unless otherwise noted, all diagrams are copyright Sue Burton, 2017. You may make copies for personal use only. Please contact me if you wish to publish them in any form. Thank you! Please see also…
When the cold days begin, it is inevitable to think about knitting, don´t you think? More specifically, think about what we are going to knit this winter. Perhaps where you live, these days the cam…
Invisible Join for Pin Loom Squares As You Weave: I love weaving squares on my pin loom, but I really don't like all the sewing required to join them together at the end. Even crochet joins take a lot of time and don't always look great. So I decided to figure out how to join the squares as I wea…
A member of the Facebook Pin Loom Weaving Support Group residing in the UK asked today about how to use a loom with equidistant pins (hereinafter referred to as “bias looms”). The only …
A friend asked me to do a tartan pillow using her choice of four colours of fine wool. My first test was a gamp (trying every colour with every other colour). I knew nothing about tartan except that the same pattern of stripes is used for both both warp and weft and it is often woven as a twill. There are thousands of tartans. I was at a loss to design my own, so I found a four-colour tartan and copied the proportions. I applied my friend's colours to it and made a "tartan ruler" as a way to chart the warp and weft. From doing the gamp I realized that a full sized pillow with such fine yarn in pin weaving was going to be too daunting. I proposed a checkerboard sampler of 16 squares so that I can work small and modular. Eight squares will be tartan, and the other eight will be a two-colour twill. That way I can experiment with moving the design around on the tartan pattern and try a lot of different twill patterns. I'm nearly finished the fourth square and find them relaxing to make.
I had the opportunity to talk with some people from The Woolery who are now involved in putting together a special Critter Kit that includes gorgeous yarn, a Zoom Loom and directions to make one of several Critters. They were kind enough to invite me to talk/blog about pin looms, pin loom history, stuff you can do with them... etc. My only difficulty was that I felt bad about not putting the same material right here. And then I realized, I can do that. So here is the link for Pin Loom Weaving with Meg Stump! As it mentions at the end of the article, I am looking for pictures of pin loom projects, whether completed, still under way or stuck. I would like to put a page of all our works together, but I'm not posting it until I have a bunch so that no one has to worry about what someone else has sent in.
Imagine a group of extra-terrestrials gathered in a living room. They’re poking and prodding a…
for MW So, here’s what I was thinking as I constructed a 49 pins-per-side loom today: “Why don’t all the loommakers send me samples of their looms so I can promote them and extend…
This weaving kit includes all the yarns needed to weave these Escher Placemats that were designed by Michele Marshall for Easy Weaving with Little Looms Spring 2024. The rotating staircases in M.C. Escher's art seem captured in this block-weave pattern. Though they look complex, these placemats are not difficult to weave. Set up your two heddles and a pick-up stick, follow the weaving sequence, and you're on your way! Note: This is a two heddle project. Weave structure: plain weave with color and weave Yarns: 8/4 Cotton Rug Warp Equipment needed: rigid heddle loom; 17" weaving width; TWO 12 or 12.5-dent reed; 6 shuttles; 1 pick-up stick. Finished size: four placemats 14" × 18" hemmed. Instructions needed: Easy Weaving with Little Looms Spring 2024 pages 56 and 64-65. This kit includes all the yarns needed to weave these placemats. The pattern can be found in the magazine noted above. You will need to purchase this magazine if you don't already own a copy. Photos by Matt Graves
A member of the Facebook Pin Loom Weaving Support Group residing in the UK asked today about how to use a loom with equidistant pins (hereinafter referred to as “bias looms”). The only …
If you’re not a member of the Pin Loom Weaving Support Group on Facebook and you are a pin loom weaver, you might want to join up just to see what’s going on. What’s been going on…
I designed several butterflies, but I’ve only woven two of them.
For the original post of this pattern see Hearts and Diamonds Overshot. This is a really beautiful pattern in the Pin Loom “overshot” technique. I have this theory that all “overs…
For the original post of this pattern see Hearts and Diamonds Overshot. This is a really beautiful pattern in the Pin Loom “overshot” technique. I have this theory that all “overs…
The book . . . well, this blog is the book—a living-ish, breathing-ish, changing-almost-daily-ish record of my pin loom weaving adventures. If you care to find out how the book dream died, I …
Learn the basics of using the continuous strand–weaving method on a pin loom with this subscriber exclusive and then practice the technique with a free bonus project!
So, I accidentally fall into a lot of my crafts. I'm a pretty scatterbrained person, and I think that's because there's about fifty tabs open at any time in my head. The eighth graders and I were talking about togas, which were made from twenty feet or so of hand woven fabric. I don't know if it's because of Snapchat and iPads and "kids these days" but they really didn't have a great grasp on weaving. (Then again, I probably have a better grasp on handicrafts than most people.) So, after seeing a painting of Penelope weaving while waiting for Odysseus to get home, the kids asked if we could learn to weave. (They also wanted to spin wool, but that's another blog post for another day.) ANYWAY, I remembered that we learned how to weave on cardboard in third grade, and so the week before break we worked on weaving tiny rectangles on pieces of cardboard. As a side note, you may think you are a kind and patient person, but if you try to teach 30 eighth graders to weave, you will learn that you are cruel, unsympathetic, and mean. However, the kids did seem to have fun. I never actually got to finish this sample because... 8th graders. (Best moment was when a student asked how Romans sewed all these tiny pieces together to make a toga... That led to a quick review on the difference between Roman looms and ours.) So, this got me Pintering (Katius Rex) and after clicking through a few big looms I knew I would never make or buy (because lets be honest, weaving is a tiny bit limited compared to knitting or crocheting) I discovered the mini-loom "Weave-It," and became enamored of the little mid-century gem... I'll make a different post about that later, because it deserves its own. To sum it up, it's a small 4x4 loom that makes little squares. What are you going to do with those little squares? A) I have no idea but they are very calming to make, and B) there's a great website, if you're interested in this tiny loom, that has all kinds of info and patterns: Eloomanation After making about ten / a million of these little squares, I started thinking that they could probably be used the way granny squares are -- bags, accessories, and of course ... AFGHANS. So, Christmas night after we got home from my brother's but we were still waiting for my husband to get home from work I showed my dad the Weave-It, and asked if he could cut me some wood to make a bigger one. He asked what size and I said I needed the middle opening to be about twelve inches, because I figured I'd make twelve inch squares. This would make sizing blankets easy (five squares, five feet) and since it's a multiple of 4, I figured the pin arrangement would be easy. (That's the cool thing about the Weave-It -- that pin arrangement gives it a neat scalloped edge and makes warping it easier.) He cut a square out of one piece of plywood, so there were no joints at the corner to contend with. (Although probably not the best use of wood if you're trying to conserve?) Dad goes into action. So, and honestly I don't even remember how we got to this point, we didn't quite end up with a square foot. The interior square came out 10 and 1/8. To figure out where to place the pins, I measured a square a little over 11 inches around the edge, a little over 29 centimeters. Huh. Hmmm. So the crux of the matter was: what am I going to do about the correct spread of pins? If you are trying this on your own at home and DON'T care about having the Weave-It pattern of pins (the corners are a little strange, which is the real difficult part) you can just figure out your spacing (4 or 5 MM?) and divide the length of your pencil line (29 cm here) and there ya go. HOWEVER, I was enchanted by the scalloped edge that the Weave-It makes, so my method is as follows. Note: I don't know if this is actually logical but my loom makes really good squares so there you have it. Another note: I did do a crap load of sanding on that square that I forgot to mention. You don't want to weave on raw plywood you silly. 1. I counted up the number of Weave-It pins on each side, as well as SPACES. (I counted each space as 1.) 32 total. 2. The next problem I faced was I was pretty sure I couldn't just enlarge the scale of the Weave-It. 290 mm divided by 32 would be 9 mm, or almost a whole centimeter. Also yes, I switched to metric halfway through. Did I mention that? 3. So then I multiplied 32 by 2 to get 64. Fantastic. NOT! Nails ended up way too crowded. 4. Now this is the part that I'm not sure if it makes sense, but I got lucky. I multiplied that 32 by 1.5, and ended up with 48 So I divided 290 mm by 48 and got 6 mm. 5. So, starting with the number 1 corner on the Weave-It (Weave-It corners are numbered) I copied the pattern of pins all the way across, again, making sure to have the funky corners right. In between those corners, it's just a repeating pattern of groups of three. 6 mm between each nail, and 12 mm for the spaces between triads. I ended up with 11 groups of three in between each funky corner group. That's my cat helping me. I forget which one. We have two black cats because we're spooky. Also one of the cats is named Spooky. (The other one is Eerie. He's the worst/best you'll see him soon.) Advanced envelope measuring technique. 6. Next I broke out the dremel. Well, my husband broke it out and we didn't have the right attachment but through the magic of blogging we can fast forward you through like three hours of getting dressed and walking around Home Depot and then I made a cactus planter BUT THEN I came back to this. Drill all the little holes. I think we used a 3/64 bit; I'll double check with Brett later. As a side note using the dremel is both fun and horrific and makes you feel like a dentist. Action shot! 7. Then you hammer a bunch of nails in! I got a big box of finishing nails at Home Depot because I wasn't sure how many I needed because at that point I hadn't counted up the holes yet and also idk giant box of nails now we have them forever I don't come into your home and judge your nails. My plywood square was 3/4 an inch thick and we got 1.5 inch nails. Our dremel guide didn't fit over the attachment to use the tiny bit so we just estimated how far into the wood we were going. Everything went fine, don't worry. Giant box o nails. And after a LOT of hammering... IT WAS DONE! The squares off this slightly irregularly measured loom are about 10.5 inches. (Oh no back to imperial!) I used two strands of worsted weight. If you are one of those people who likes "measurements" and "takes pride in your work" you may want to be a little more exact than I was. Long story short: the finished square is beautiful, I can't wait to make blankets.
Description of Kobo Oriza Scarf, Multi-Pattern Weave, Yellow and Charcoal Plaid Description ABOUT THE BRAND All aspects of production are done in the studios of Kobo Oriza. These processes include (but are not limited to!) product design, spinning yarn, warping, weaving, washing, and tasseling. The Kijaku Ichiretsuki loom can only complete 30 scarves a day, but each one is made with the utmost care. Origin of Fabric: Japan 100% Wool Made in Imabari, Japan Scarf (flat measurement): 14"x 71" approx. Product #: KOS130 Code: NWS Learn more about Kobo Oriza and the Kijaku Ichiretsuki loom here. All aspects of production are done in the studios of Kobo Oriza. These processes include (but are not limited to) product design, spinning yarn, warping, weaving, washing, and tasselling. Made using an Iwama weaving machine, the machine stretches the threads, adds weight, and weaves them one by one while the craftsmen make firm adjustments. "Changing weave", which combines three patterns of large and small herringbone and plain weave, is characterized by the three-dimensional effect and thickness of the fabric. It is a completely non-sewn finish with no seams anywhere.
Quick Update - I now have plans for you to make your own adjustable loom that is much better than the picture frame! I highly recommend you check it out :)
Have you tried Zoom Loom Weaving? I'm here to tell you it's hella fun! Take a look at this roundup of unique pin loom projects and give this loom a whirl!
30 May 2016 Update: I originally learned the “Houndstooth Check” pattern from the book 100 Pin Loom Squares by Florencia Campos Correa. Loved the square, but thought her instructions we…
Continuing on from the previous post, R1 is in place and, we’re ready to begin weaving a basic 2/2 twill. Make sure R1 ended by going below the #4 pin at Cr4.
About 13 years ago I discovered pin looms. My mother had gone to Argentina for a trip and she had seen an artisan in the street weaving with this “wooden frame with nails”, which caused…
