Category: Crafting

  • 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…

  • From: November 4, 2017 A long time ago, when I was a child, I read Little House in the Highlands by Melissa Wiley where the main character wants to learn to use a spinning wheel like her sister.  Her parents think she is too young but her mother digs out an old drop spindle so…

  • From October 29, 2024: Let me explain a little bit of context here.  When I was young, probably around 13 or 14 years old, I was fascinated by–well, by a lot of things, but one of those things was weaving.  I had read a description in a book that described weaving as “shuttles will fly”…