Welcome, Beginning Weavers!

7-Step Plan For Beginners

This 7-Step Plan for Beginning Weavers, will guide you from “what’s this thing called?”, to “I’ve got this! I can weave anything!”

Step 1: Get to know your loom

Ep 40 – Buying a Loom

Ep 4 – A Tour of My Floor Loom

Ep 24 – All About Table Looms

Ep 126 – Identify Your Style of Loom

Ep 84 – Moving Parts

Ep 33 – Reliable Reed

Ep 121 – A Bevy of Beams

Ep 35 – Treadles & Tie-Ups

 

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Step 2: Explore Your Materials & Accessories

Ep 13 – Weaving Accessories

Ep 28 – Recycling & Weaving

Ep 29 – World of Shuttles

Ep 32 – Mighty Warping Board

Ep 41 – Buying Weaving Yarn Online

Ep 66 – What to Buy First

Ep 67 – How to Grow a Stash

Ep 93 – How to Match Your Item & Fiber

Ep 127 – Weaving Materials: A Beginner’s Guide

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Step 3: Learn Some Basic Weaving Terminology

Ep 128 – Key Weaving Pattern Terms

Step 4: Take the ‘Dress Your Loom’ Course

Ep 6 – Warping a Weaving Project

Ep 7 – Sleying a Reed

Ep 8 – Threading the Heddles

Ep 9 – Winding a Project on the Loom

Ep 30 – The Great Debate

Step 5: Try Some Basic Weaving Patterns

Ep 47 – Nuts & Bolts of Rep Weave

Ep 51 – Different Types of Twill

Ep 57 – The Famous Straight Draw

Ep 78 – Houndstooth How-To

Ep 90 – Log Cabin Formula

Ep 112 – Bird’s Eye Twill

Ep 139 – Playing with Pinwheels

Step 6: Study how to read a weaving draft & plan a project

Ep 49 – How to Read a Weaving Draft

Ep 124 – Reading a Weaving Draft for a Table Loom

Ep 106 – How to Determine Your Number for Waste

Ep 44 – Shrinkage

Ep 5 – Planning a Weaving Project

Step 7: Weave, weave, weave!

Ep 56 – The Case for Lace

Ep 71 – Overshot 101: Dressing the Loom

Ep 72 – Overshot 101: Weaving Overshow

Ep 76 – This is Honeycomb

Ep 92 – Summer & Winter

Ep 96 – Quick Peek Into Leno

Ep 99 – Planning for Double Weave

Ep 110 – Waffle Weave Magic

Ep 120 – Very Hip Herringbone

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