Disco Cleanup

  This was quite the adventure but this project broke me. It was a lot. I am not a fan of weaving. I will say it now. But, getting a pedicure and weaving made it fun.  I added 2 inches to each side of the pillow so it was about 18.5 all the way around. I used a t-square to measure it out.  My handy cardboard cutter was key! When making a loom for something this large, it's handy to use a heavy-duty cardboard.  MY cutter is the BEST!! Then I used a 1/2 inch spacing for the warp strings.  I started with regular yarn and switched to thick yarn.  I got a pedicure and brought my weaving. That was interesting but it made the process more pleasant. My hands are absolutely killing me.  I ran out of yarn and took the rest of the afternoon off to get my marriage license in Independence.  I bought some more yarn and turned on a movie.  Pirates of the Caribbean is a good series to go through and finish the weaving.  ...

WEAVING ON A CARDBOARD LOOM! Cheap, Fast, and Quality... You can only pick 2.  When it comes to teaching, I want to add an "easy" category. Which it's either easy for me or easy for the students. My amount of PREP also lowers the number of variables the students have to encounter. I can control so many aspects with stencils and pre-cut shapes or pre-mixed color palettes. With weaving, there are similar options. Man, everyone in the social media pedagogy makes this look a lot easier to teach than it has been for me. There are so many frustrating aspects BUT THERE IS HOPE!  Weaving is one of the oldest traditions practiced by many cultures and it can communicate TONS of ideas. From Unity and Variety to PRoportion and Scale! Words to remember: LOOM WARP and WEFT I've learned that making the looms is HARD, but possible.  From left to right: came with a set of 12, handmade, class set, straws(which come with their own environmental concerns) Store-bought cardboard class set...