Hankering for Yarn

September 19th, 2007

Happiness! A Lily-Speed-o-Weave square loom

The neatest sequence of events unfolded recently….
My dear son-in-law knows that I have been questing for a square Lily Speed-o-weave loom for ages.
He IM’ed me, saying: Hey…. there’s one on eBay……
I went and looked. Kewl!
But, the vendor wouldn’t ship it to Canada :(
So, I emailed the pic to my wonderful sister-in-law. She works close to […]

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March 1st, 2007

Freeforming and randomizing on the Lily Speed-o-weave loom

Well, last night, I got all fed up with trying to figure out some of the ‘alternate flight plans’ of the strange little instruction booklet that came with one of my really old Lily Speed-o-weave looms.
So, today, I decided to give myself carte blanche on the second side of the hemp bag that I am […]

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February 26th, 2007

The Hemp Bag: The Cat’s on the bag!

Last summer,  I made a bag to carry projects and stuff for the workshops that I taught at the Knit and Crochet show
So, I posted this:
Anyhow, I am making this wild and wonderful bag. It started out with a pair of painted wooden handles that I made a few years back.
you can see […]

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November 9th, 2006

The Lily Speed-o-weave looms are not just for placemats

My previous posting was about finding missing parts for Lily Speed-o-weave looms.
I just wanted to add one more thing……..
and that is, that you can make more than table mats with them.
I made this shawl from silk I spun myself, using the Lily Speed-o-weave loom and crochet……

Hmmmmmmm I think my daughter borrowed it…….
:)
that happens…….
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