Rigid Heddle Weaving

I treated myself to a loom a couple of months ago and I have been getting to know it.

To try it out, I used up a couple of balls of scrap acrylic - you know what I'm talking about. The stuff that seems like a good idea at the time then you have no idea what to do with it and it ends up sitting in your stash forever.

The warp is a gold colour with lurex and the weft is burgundy, with rainbow lurex. Many sparkles. I think it would make a cool table runner at Christmas now. I found myself relieved with how easy it was to weave anything!

I did weave a quick blue scarf up for my Son after that, he insisted. I did forget to take a picture...

The original thinking around getting my own loom was that I hoped it would give me something to do with all the handspun that I had been accumulating so I warped up with a commercial acrylic and got to work at trying to achieve a semi-ombre effect scarf.

Honestly it ended up better than I imagined. It is plain weave, but the handspun gives it so much texture and interest. It's exactly the effect I wanted. I enjoy making yarn that just 'is' rather than go for a particular weight and I am awful at consistency, it's fun, but definitely thick and thin and here and there. The weaving really shows it off where attempting to knit it made it look awful.

I had a fancy to make dishcloths/cleaning cloths out of cotton. I used DK weight cotton on a 7.5 dent reed and they did look quite holey on the loom but once they were off they looked great.

I find weaving to be a lovely meditative activity. My only gripe really is that I can't carry it around very easily. I did get it on the patio in the sunshine with a G&T at one point which was amazing.

Now I have lots of weaving ideas cooking.

Time taken: Hours and hours, it's much quicker than knitting though.
Injuries: None and I put it together myself!