So... my sons partner is interested in textile arts, and I think I bet there is a loom that might be their jam I could gift them this Christmas. I search Amazon for looms, and there is an overpriced inkle loom. So I Google that and I find Elewys. Now I've been watching weaving videos for the past hour or so. Great videos Elewys, you are entertaining and informative. A magical combo, keep up the fantastic work.
I love that you let us see the mistakes. It let us know everyone makes them. Your videos help me so much. I'm very new when it comes to weaving. You inspire me. Thank you.
I'm new to tablet weaving - haven't woven a thing, yet. I have a small, rigid-heddle loom and some cards on the way. Your videos make it look easy. Your teaching style is perfect. I've already learned so much, just from watching you! Thank you for sharing these videos, you're very helpful for the newbie!
Thank you. I'm so looking forward to learning this. Living in the U.K., this discovery was within 20 miles of my home. Another fairly local woven discovery was the Sutton Hoo (The Dig) find. I'm currently searching for this pattern.
Happy 20th episode! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Thank you for everything over the last year. I’ve gone from an interested spectator to a passable beginner thanks to your wonderful, interesting videos. I’ve been looking forward to this pattern. Really interesting watching the process of working out the pattern. Shows the amount of work required to bring us these wonderful videos. Thank you 🙏 I’d sing thanking the person for that chart too-brilliant. Cannot carry a tune in a bucket unfortunately. Ha ha I’d love to see your garden. We’ve been working in ours getting ready for spring. Now, off to grab my loom and yarn…. 😄😄😄
Discovered tablet weaving at a Viking day at Flag fen near Peterborough UK they have boats there over 3,500 years old. Made my tablets and enjoying your channel
I've just started learning on an inkle loom and can't quite wrap my mind around how to use the cards, but I love watching you weave! Really enjoying your videos. Never heard of a surgeon's knot before, but it's going to be my go-to from now on. Thanks for this channel.
Oh, that tablet weaving conversion chart is gonna come in handy! Thank you so much for linking to it. And happy 20th episodiversary! I‘ll raise a glass of Gin and Tonic in your honour - much too hot for tea where I live. Cheers!
...Things I learned warping this up for my very first foray into tablet weaving, using #10 crochet thread in black, white and purple: 1) lock up the rabbit. He likes to chew wood. 2) lock up the rabbit. He likes to nip through yarn. 3) lock up the rabbit. He likes to steal tablets and dash madly around the living room with them in his mouth before depositing them in his cage... 4) find a pattern for a proper inkle loom instead of making it up out of a lovely 5' oak board left over from someone's IKEA project and scrap lumber from the burn pile 5) the only crochet thread I could find will not unwind nicely off the spool, even if the rabbit's cat carrier with a dowel stuck through it would otherwise work as a lazy kate
Just decided to do this pattern and was going to just watch some of your videos as some nice background while I weave. And then I realized that this is the same pattern I’m going to weave. I can actually weave along. !!!
I'm totally up for a garden tour. Also, thanks for the different views of your warped loom. It's fun to see which pegs you use when you warp your loom. :-)
Ambient noises excused. It's so much fun to watch you weave, anything else that happens to come with it is okay by me. I am, however, shouting at the screen NO!!!!!!!!! STOP!!!!!!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING? GO BACK AND FIX IT!!!!!!!! LOL And yes, would love garden tour.
I've been looking for just the right pattern to go with some medieval pocketses a friend of mine cross stitched for me (and the pocketses arrived full of weaving tablets cause I've been talking about starting). Probably not an ideal first tablet weave though :) Also, yes on garden tour! ...And Yay, Ontario! Even though I'm not associated with the SCA, I have a lot of friends who are. Figures there would be a trillium on it (provincial flower).
Got any cotton, hemp or flax growing to weave with in your garden? I'm growing 10 gossypium plants for the first time, anxious to see if they will grow cotton buds soon. Thanks for showing your multiple attempts, it's relatable and shows you put in a lot of effort!
Wishing you the best with that! I gave growing cotton a try a few years ago and absolutely loved the experience, I had about 5 plants in pots, one I kept for about 3 years before it couldn't produce anymore for some reason, and I still have a lot of plucked and combed fiber I spin from time to time :)
@@TigressGraphics o wow, thanks for sharing! I will be thrilled if i can pluck once. I did not know you can keep cotton plants longer than one year! Nice to hear from someone with experience in growing it! I'm from Belgium, maybe the climate is not ideal, but so far it's working.
@@LotteQuintelier The one I kept growing was an experiment, and I liked the plant as is and the flowers. But I can say that progressive harvests were much smaller and maybe even lesser quality, especially since I started a new set of plants the following year to compare to, but it is possible it was more a lack of nutrients as I don't think I did any fertilization for the cotton and kept it in the same pot it's whole life. As for climates, I know there is different species for different parts of the world, I happen to be in a more tropical/humid climate without any frost so that may have also helped my success, but honestly they were quite easy to keep. When it comes time to harvest you'll know/ The boles will be quite swollen looking before showing signs of going brown, then they split on their own. I found it best to just leave the boles on the plant and let it do its thing, opening in full on its own. You'll know it's time to pull the cotton out of the bunches when it looks like fluffy clouds, and just pinching the end and pulling will start it all unraveling like a crochet chain. Much fun :D Cutting the boles off the plant even when they start to split and letting them dry inside actually stunted the process and the cotton threads didn't fully form! But I do encourage you to experiment! For the cotton itself there is a few different methods to use it. I tried both spinning off the seed and ginning, and I feel spinning off the seed is easier to get the feel for how to spin cotton because it's so fine and short, but ginning and brushing gives a much more smooth and consistent thread. I used two small wire pet hair brushes in the same manor you would for wool paddles and it did me well for the time. I'll be honest though, with how much I enjoyed the process, to this day I still don't know what to do with the many bobbins and spindles of thread I created and it is all just stored in a box now! ROFL!!!
I got the seeds for a square yard of flaxen from the national society of home handiwork in sweden but I couldn't find a piece of land to grow it on so I guess I'm doing that next year! (Oh the joys of having a plant growing hobby while being an apartment Dwelling creature)
I love this piece, I'll definitely attempt it at some point but I'm only on my first ever woven band at the moment, haven't even done a skip hole weave yet.
I’ve been trying to do the Egyptian child’s tunic trim with the diamonds and off brand Oseberg 😂 the diamonds aren’t quite touching and I can’t seem to figure it out - if anyone knows what I’m talking about?? This is my personal Moby - it’s so close but I can’t get it right lol
I'm starting on my first project, a collar for my grandparents dog, and I was wondering if you knew of a way to figure out how wide a pattern will be? I'm using 8/4 cotton yarn if it helps
Wrap your chosen yarn around a ruler until you get to the width you want. Count the number of threads you have wrapped--that's how many cards you will need for a 4-thread-per-card pattern. It's not exact, but it'll get you darn close.
Haha, "all of Ontario " I live in Ontario, and that map only covers southern Ontario, which is only a tiny area compared to the entire province ;) most of the population lives there though.
Each video is a different pattern--you can watch them in any order. If you want to start with a very easy pattern, I would suggest one called Easy Peasy Applesies. Click on my name and it'll take you to the channel, then click on "videos" and it'll show you the whole list of available videos. I don't have a loom building video--I bought mine second hand about 25 years ago, but I did a video on the dimensions and measurements of the loom that a woodworker could build off of.
You could, but I don't have enough fishing swivels on hand to do all the threads! I used to have more, but I must have put them somewhere very special...you know how it goes. :D
I hope you don't mind me asking. I've been following this along and on my 2nd reversal it's all gone pear-shaped! The inside is weaving well but my outside (1&19) have stopped weaving in. Any idea what I might have done wrong?
I was thinking "She didn't mention what the tea is." I was going to ask, but then i found it in the description. I like a drop or two of milk in my earl grey, but happy to drink it without, too :)
I can't work this pattern out, I've also been attempting multiple times. On your 5th attempt it suddenly works for you but why? I feel like I missed something
OK, it doesn't look like anyone has asked this one yet: why does card 19 exist? You do all that finagling to make it work right. why not just not include it?
Closed captioning said “laser cape” for “lazy Kate.” I really want you to have a laser cape!
Ooo...I wonder if I could weave one? #Lifegoals
So... my sons partner is interested in textile arts, and I think I bet there is a loom that might be their jam I could gift them this Christmas. I search Amazon for looms, and there is an overpriced inkle loom. So I Google that and I find Elewys. Now I've been watching weaving videos for the past hour or so. Great videos Elewys, you are entertaining and informative. A magical combo, keep up the fantastic work.
Thanks for watching! There are lots of talented loom makers on Etsy as well. Worth checking out!
Thank you so much for showing the float - I've spent ages trying to work out how to get rid of it 😅 really love this pattern
I love that you let us see the mistakes. It let us know everyone makes them. Your videos help me so much. I'm very new when it comes to weaving. You inspire me. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing your mitsakes (sic). They make NOOBS feel better!
I'm new to tablet weaving - haven't woven a thing, yet. I have a small, rigid-heddle loom and some cards on the way. Your videos make it look easy. Your teaching style is perfect. I've already learned so much, just from watching you! Thank you for sharing these videos, you're very helpful for the newbie!
Thank you.
I'm so looking forward to learning this.
Living in the U.K., this discovery was within 20 miles of my home.
Another fairly local woven discovery was the Sutton Hoo (The Dig) find. I'm currently searching for this pattern.
This one? www.pinterest.com/pin/252201647873796068/
@@elewysoffinchingefeld3066
The link isn't valid...
Well, if you click on the image, it goes to a dead page, but can you see the image? The yellow band with the red Xes and Os?
Yes, that's the one, thank you.
A garden tour sounds lovely!
Happy 20th episode! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Thank you for everything over the last year. I’ve gone from an interested spectator to a passable beginner thanks to your wonderful, interesting videos.
I’ve been looking forward to this pattern. Really interesting watching the process of working out the pattern. Shows the amount of work required to bring us these wonderful videos. Thank you 🙏
I’d sing thanking the person for that chart too-brilliant. Cannot carry a tune in a bucket unfortunately. Ha ha
I’d love to see your garden. We’ve been working in ours getting ready for spring.
Now, off to grab my loom and yarn….
😄😄😄
I was expecting that garden tour between attempt 3 and 4!! HA!
Discovered tablet weaving at a Viking day at Flag fen near Peterborough UK they have boats there over 3,500 years old. Made my tablets and enjoying your channel
My thoughts after attempt 1: she'll get it.
After attempt 2-4: this is unusual.
After attempt 5: oh, thank goodness, it's not just me!
I've just started learning on an inkle loom and can't quite wrap my mind around how to use the cards, but I love watching you weave! Really enjoying your videos. Never heard of a surgeon's knot before, but it's going to be my go-to from now on. Thanks for this channel.
I learn something with each video - thank you!
Thanks for showing Smoky! It was the best part!
Oh, that tablet weaving conversion chart is gonna come in handy! Thank you so much for linking to it. And happy 20th episodiversary! I‘ll raise a glass of Gin and Tonic in your honour - much too hot for tea where I live. Cheers!
Never too hot for tea! I did make iced tea yesterday when it got over 90 degrees, though...
...Things I learned warping this up for my very first foray into tablet weaving, using #10 crochet thread in black, white and purple:
1) lock up the rabbit. He likes to chew wood.
2) lock up the rabbit. He likes to nip through yarn.
3) lock up the rabbit. He likes to steal tablets and dash madly around the living room with them in his mouth before depositing them in his cage...
4) find a pattern for a proper inkle loom instead of making it up out of a lovely 5' oak board left over from someone's IKEA project and scrap lumber from the burn pile
5) the only crochet thread I could find will not unwind nicely off the spool, even if the rabbit's cat carrier with a dowel stuck through it would otherwise work as a lazy kate
PETS! We love them even though they drive us crazy.
Just decided to do this pattern and was going to just watch some of your videos as some nice background while I weave. And then I realized that this is the same pattern I’m going to weave. I can actually weave along. !!!
Wonderful!
Thank you for showing the boo boo, and how to fix it!
Love your channel.
Perseverance is the key! It looks fabulous! I've never seen a pattern like that before so it was really cool get to see how it works. Great job!😊
I'm totally up for a garden tour. Also, thanks for the different views of your warped loom. It's fun to see which pegs you use when you warp your loom. :-)
I would love to see a garden tour 😃
Oh yes, me too!
My cat came over to check out who was whistling at the very end xD
Awesome! You are so knowledgeable and interesting to listen to. Thanks for sharing!
Ambient noises excused. It's so much fun to watch you weave, anything else that happens to come with it is okay by me. I am, however, shouting at the screen NO!!!!!!!!! STOP!!!!!!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING? GO BACK AND FIX IT!!!!!!!! LOL And yes, would love garden tour.
Yay! That's us! Though I haven't had much to do with SCA for years... one day though, I think I might like to get back involved with it.
I've been looking for just the right pattern to go with some medieval pocketses a friend of mine cross stitched for me (and the pocketses arrived full of weaving tablets cause I've been talking about starting). Probably not an ideal first tablet weave though :)
Also, yes on garden tour!
...And Yay, Ontario! Even though I'm not associated with the SCA, I have a lot of friends who are. Figures there would be a trillium on it (provincial flower).
Thank you so much for this one. Showing us everyone can mess up.
I missed you 😟 watching the replay 😊
Got any cotton, hemp or flax growing to weave with in your garden? I'm growing 10 gossypium plants for the first time, anxious to see if they will grow cotton buds soon. Thanks for showing your multiple attempts, it's relatable and shows you put in a lot of effort!
Wishing you the best with that! I gave growing cotton a try a few years ago and absolutely loved the experience, I had about 5 plants in pots, one I kept for about 3 years before it couldn't produce anymore for some reason, and I still have a lot of plucked and combed fiber I spin from time to time :)
@@TigressGraphics o wow, thanks for sharing! I will be thrilled if i can pluck once. I did not know you can keep cotton plants longer than one year! Nice to hear from someone with experience in growing it! I'm from Belgium, maybe the climate is not ideal, but so far it's working.
@@LotteQuintelier The one I kept growing was an experiment, and I liked the plant as is and the flowers. But I can say that progressive harvests were much smaller and maybe even lesser quality, especially since I started a new set of plants the following year to compare to, but it is possible it was more a lack of nutrients as I don't think I did any fertilization for the cotton and kept it in the same pot it's whole life. As for climates, I know there is different species for different parts of the world, I happen to be in a more tropical/humid climate without any frost so that may have also helped my success, but honestly they were quite easy to keep.
When it comes time to harvest you'll know/ The boles will be quite swollen looking before showing signs of going brown, then they split on their own. I found it best to just leave the boles on the plant and let it do its thing, opening in full on its own. You'll know it's time to pull the cotton out of the bunches when it looks like fluffy clouds, and just pinching the end and pulling will start it all unraveling like a crochet chain. Much fun :D
Cutting the boles off the plant even when they start to split and letting them dry inside actually stunted the process and the cotton threads didn't fully form! But I do encourage you to experiment!
For the cotton itself there is a few different methods to use it. I tried both spinning off the seed and ginning, and I feel spinning off the seed is easier to get the feel for how to spin cotton because it's so fine and short, but ginning and brushing gives a much more smooth and consistent thread. I used two small wire pet hair brushes in the same manor you would for wool paddles and it did me well for the time. I'll be honest though, with how much I enjoyed the process, to this day I still don't know what to do with the many bobbins and spindles of thread I created and it is all just stored in a box now! ROFL!!!
I got the seeds for a square yard of flaxen from the national society of home handiwork in sweden but I couldn't find a piece of land to grow it on so I guess I'm doing that next year! (Oh the joys of having a plant growing hobby while being an apartment Dwelling creature)
I’m so excited for this one! 💕
I love this piece, I'll definitely attempt it at some point but I'm only on my first ever woven band at the moment, haven't even done a skip hole weave yet.
garden tour would be fantastic ;o)
I need a new hobby like I need a hole in the head BUT I love watching these!!
I’ve been trying to do the Egyptian child’s tunic trim with the diamonds and off brand Oseberg 😂 the diamonds aren’t quite touching and I can’t seem to figure it out - if anyone knows what I’m talking about?? This is my personal Moby - it’s so close but I can’t get it right lol
Is it this one? aisling.biz/index.php/galerie/historisch/spaetantike-voelkerwanderung/292-die-borte-vom-kinderkleid-inv-nr-9935
@@elewysoffinchingefeld3066 the very one! 💕
Xylophones are the best toys!
I'm starting on my first project, a collar for my grandparents dog, and I was wondering if you knew of a way to figure out how wide a pattern will be? I'm using 8/4 cotton yarn if it helps
Wrap your chosen yarn around a ruler until you get to the width you want. Count the number of threads you have wrapped--that's how many cards you will need for a 4-thread-per-card pattern. It's not exact, but it'll get you darn close.
@@elewysoffinchingefeld3066 thank you so much for your answer!!
Haha, "all of Ontario "
I live in Ontario, and that map only covers southern Ontario, which is only a tiny area compared to the entire province ;) most of the population lives there though.
I just joined late how do I get to review all 20 of your steps and hopefully one or two is building the loom?
Each video is a different pattern--you can watch them in any order. If you want to start with a very easy pattern, I would suggest one called Easy Peasy Applesies. Click on my name and it'll take you to the channel, then click on "videos" and it'll show you the whole list of available videos. I don't have a loom building video--I bought mine second hand about 25 years ago, but I did a video on the dimensions and measurements of the loom that a woodworker could build off of.
I have a questions, many many questions, but I will only ask one here. How do all the strings behind the cards not become tangled?
They become twisted but staying under tension keeps them fairly well-behaved. If you take it off the loom, you're at the mercy of the Tangle Monsters.
2:53
Well, that's a little too much.
The end was 1492, the discovery of the America.
I did wonder if you had mis threaded cards 6 and 7. Didnt seem to be the same as the chart .......
Why not put fishing swivels at the end every time to get rid of possible twists?
You could, but I don't have enough fishing swivels on hand to do all the threads! I used to have more, but I must have put them somewhere very special...you know how it goes. :D
I hope you don't mind me asking. I've been following this along and on my 2nd reversal it's all gone pear-shaped! The inside is weaving well but my outside (1&19) have stopped weaving in. Any idea what I might have done wrong?
Sounds like you missed a throw and now you're throwing left when you need to throw right. It's very directional!
I was thinking "She didn't mention what the tea is." I was going to ask, but then i found it in the description.
I like a drop or two of milk in my earl grey, but happy to drink it without, too :)
I can't work this pattern out, I've also been attempting multiple times. On your 5th attempt it suddenly works for you but why? I feel like I missed something
I made a threading mistake somewhere. Triple check all the details.
OK, it doesn't look like anyone has asked this one yet: why does card 19 exist? You do all that finagling to make it work right. why not just not include it?
You need an odd number of cards or the thread on the end won't catch and will just dangle.
I think you made a mistake on card 6...