I can see why your videos are the first ones to pop up on RU-vid = you're the best! I've wanted to learn to weave for years but had never done any research or taken classes. I bought a loom on the spur of the moment yesterday and after watching you video on how to warp the loom and this video, I'm actually weaving! I'm so proud of myself and so thankful I found you. I'm sure I'll be watching all of your videos over the next few weeks. Thank you for being such an awesome teacher!
I am new to weaving and purchased my 15 inch Cricket loom in the last month. I took a beginning class at our local Fiber Fair in Asheville,NC and your videos have been invaluable for me as I got home and started to review what I learned. I am hoping you will continue to make an upload beginning videos to include taking the piece off the loom. Thank you again for your videos, they are well made and easy to understand/follow. Ann-Marie Duncan
You are the best teacher on RU-vid for rigid heddle weaving. Believe me I’ve watched a lot. I appreciate all instructions but yours are the ones I understand best. Thank you. Please continue with any information you think we beginning rigid heddle weavers might need. I’m a knitter and would love advice on using stash yarn in weaving. Again, thank you. Someone said your soft voice and clear speech really helps . I agree.
I agree. After watching many videos I believe yours are the clearest and easiest to understand. My loom should be here next week. I was terrified of trying to set up my warp, but after watching your video I’m confident I can do it.
I have a 25" rigid heddle loom but it's hard to manage (I don't have a place to just set it up) and all I really want to do is make scarves. I was thinking about the Cricket but wanted to see it being used. Your demonstration gave me enough information to make my decision. I just placed the order. :)
Hi there... I received a lovely 24 inch Heddle loom for my birthday and have been having a very difficult time warping . Thank you so much for your great video!
do you know how hard it is to find a video about the actual weaving? It's all warp warp warp and then "look how nicely it weaves!" with like six inches of weaving already done. Or they want you to take their class, haha. so thank you for showing how to actually Do The Thing.
Thank you again for the clear, effective teaching - you do an amazing job! I literally went out and bought the yarn in your video. Wasn't it in another video where you were demonstrating warping? It would be lovely to see your finished project! Thanks again for sharing!
Come by the shop and I'll show you ---- sounds like I might be going on a road trip this summer!!It's only 697 miles from me.....12 hour drive! IT would be fun though :D
Thanks to your video's I got enough courage to venture into rigid heddle weaving! As a beginner, I was wondering why it is important to leave the angle. Doesn't that create uneven tension?
Hello, I'm taking my first weaving class on August 26 here in my hometown in upstate NY. Why do you leave the yarn at an angle after the "pinch" of each pass of the shuttle? Thanks for an interesting tutorial! Lisa
I'm having an issue with little to no shed when my heddle is in the down position, I've watched your video several times and I can't see a problem with the warp, it's correctly over the back beam and the tension seems fine. Also the heddle when down seems to fit loosely in the slots, any help would be appreciated. Love your videos
Shuttle is another word, from weaving into the rest of the world, referring to persons or things that go back and forth, a to be to a to b to a to b.... Case in point, "Shuttle Diplomacy." Noticeably, the heddle(s) that go up and down, up, down, up, down, did not win this honor. Perhaps in sports, if a team began to win, lose, win, lose, win, lose, one might call it a heddle team? Thanks for the videos.
Shed: In the 12th century, shed meant to segregate or separate. Thus, in weaving the shed is the separation created by segregating a patterned number of warps from the others. How this came to denote a snake shedding its skin, or a slight structure with one or more open walls, is beyond me.
You could do the opposite from what I do on the video and it would have no effect on the weaving. I choose to weave from the right in high and left in low because “left is low” is easy for my students to remember. ☺️
