The One Notebook Principle

Anyone who read my last post about weaving should remember that I found it slightly scary to finally weave on the loom I’ve had for probably about a decade now. I kept getting bogged down by all the things that need to happen before you actually weave, like measuring out the warp and then actually putting it on the loom. Several years ago I actually did attempt to warp the loom but I kept doing it wrong and then I just stopped trying. I never actually got to to the weaving part of weaving.

So a couple months ago I finally decided that I just wanted to try weaving. I decided I didn’t care about a pattern or the length or even the colors and type of yarn I would use. I told myself that, as it was my first time weaving on an actual loom it was just going to be bad–or, at least, not good.

With this in mind I resolved to just weave badly. To anyone who actually weaves, I apologize in advance for all the rules I broke. I tied the warp to the loom, although I did thread the yarn through the heddle. I had trouble looping the yarn back into the weaving to anchor it to the warp so, rather than stress about it or stop, I just tied it. It’s super loose and prone to sliding along the yarn, but my goal wasn’t to have a good warp and beginning. I just wanted to actually weave something, to move the shuttle and create something that resembled cloth.

You can see my pictures of it below. It’s not great , or even good, but it’s something. More importantly, I actually wove something on my loom. I don’t care that I did it badly, I just care that I did it.

Now I just to figure out how I want to take it off the loom and whether I want to do it badly next time or actually learn how to do the warp.