01.24.10
Recycling Loom Waste
One great thing about weaving is how quickly one can go through yarn! I’ve had skeins upon skeins of cotton yarn that I bought on sale. With a giant ball of Sugar and Cream Hombre, I made a seven foot long table runner last year.
During the Christmas break, I started making some placemats with two heddles. I made lots of mistakes but I’m getting better. Here are the first two placemats. The selvedges gradually got better and at the end, I was pretty proud of my hems!
I cut those first mats off the loom and retied the ends to get the tension more even. I have enough warp left on the loom for two more placemats.
In the mean time, I ended up with a huge pile of loom waste. Here’s just a small fraction of what I actually had.
Not wanting to throw away all those scraps of yarn, knotted them together and so that I could make something useful out of them.
I knitted a 9 ” by 9″ square with all the knots and ends on one side. Then I folded the square in half and sewed up the three open sides with all the knots and ends on the inside. The result is a well padded pot holder!
