‘I am not interested in weaving’ so said I when I first joined the guild in 2013. I studiously avoided the weaving workshops. I like crochet and I was going to learn to spin to get the yarn I wanted to crochet with and at the same time slow myself down in the amount of crochet I did. Hah! So much for that plan. I wasn’t interested in weaving as it looked tedious and fiddly. It had lots of jargon that meant nothing. The only weaving workshop that I joined in was a tapestry weaving one with Paula Armstrong. I quite like the designs and it appealed to the arty side of me. That said, it was still fiddly. After a while, I realised that I had yarn that wasn’t really suitable for crochet and my spinning had improved to a reasonable consistency, and thought maybe I should try weaving. I ended up with one of the guild rigid heddle looms and produced my first piece of woven material. Nothing to write home about, but I had woven something. |
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