New to me Cricket Rigid Heddle loom.

 June 10th

 

A couple of wonderful ladies on Ravelry gifted me a cricket loom.  One of them had taken a saw to it and made some um...modifications.  I assembled, sanded and oiled it, then decided to see if I could use it for my warp face weaving's.  ( I sold the Mini Wave as I have definitely outgrown it.)  

This will allow me to go wider without having to spend alot of money I don't have.  Thanks so much ladies!  You know who you are.

This warp fought me all the way to the end. For some reason I have had multiple bad starts with one weft double weave. I think it has something to do with the fact that I would a figure eight on stakes (c clamps in this case) instead of using a warp board…somehow I kept having one shed totally floating on the backside. 

Weird, right, it’s not like I don’t know how to do double weave. 

So I took it off the backstrap and mounted it onto the new to me Cricket rigid heddle loo. Without the heddle of course. Just used it as a frame like many of you have done. It was definitely a practice piece…the first on the cricket. It measures 1 3/4 in wide and the woven web is 10 and 1/2 in long. I find I am really drawn to the Bedouin designs of late. When I couldn’t get the double weave to cooperate I switched over to double weft double weave and just left the edge warps doubled. Thus the speckled sides. It has absolutely no purpose yet…I tried to use it as a collar for Lacy, but she said it was too wide and too long. eh It is what it is. I am just glad to be back weaving a little bit.

I have a narrow brown, baby blue and teal piece on the backstrap…since my creative juices have stopped flowing I think that is my next piece to try to complete. We’ll see. Wish me luck!

My third Double weft Double Weave!

May 26, 2011

I LOVE THIS!  And I discovered that I can really cut down on mistakes if I put a little mirror underneath the weaving where I can see the reverse side.   OMG...I finally did it!  Double weft double weave...can you tell whee the plain weave meets the double weave?

Here it is all fresh off of the loom.  I can't decide which side I like best!  I think this one might be an envelope pouch when it grows up!

My second double weft double weave!

May 16, 2011

The first attempt was horrific.  I am pretty happy with this one though!  Just a practice piece, but I love how dramatic the true white is with the red.

Double weft Double weave failure!

February 20, 2011

So I warped up for an experiment to help along my Weave A Long.  It didn't go well.  I decided that I didn't even see the point of it.  I really had no practical use for the technique and it didn't look as good as I wanted it to.

Took some pics for you.  You can see the little bits of white showing though.  Ugggggg.  then I tried again on the left...too bunched up trying to hide the little white specks.  grrrrr.

Plus this makes a much thicker fabric in the center of the piece than on the edges...I guess I don't want a solid background as much as I used to. ;o)

This is how I am saving the warp from the garbage can.  Actually it is kind of a relief to just plain weave for a while after a flubbbbbb...

Live and learn.  I really thought I would love this double weave thing...