Noreen Crone-Findlay - Potholder Loom Weaving: Techniques for multi-color patterns, different shapes, and tapestry weaving

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How to carve a weaving hook: https://youtube/N8PMpc5aDk8

For how-to videos about potholder loom weaving, please go to http://www.youtube.com/user/NoreenCroneFindlay

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Names: Crone-Findlay, Noreen, author.

Title: Potholder loom weaving : techniques for multi-color patterns, different shapes, and tapestry weaving / by Noreen Crone-Findlay.

Description: First edition. | Lanham, MD : Stackpole Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2020. | Includes bibliographical references. | Summary: Potholder looms can make so much more than potholders! Noreen Crone-Findlay shows you how with detailed instructions for setting up your loom and working tapestry techniquesProvided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019038371 (print) | LCCN 2019038372 (ebook) | ISBN 9780811737999 (paperback) | ISBN 9780811767989 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: HandloomsTechnique. | WeavingPatterns.

Classification: LCC TT848.5 .C76 2020 (print) | LCC TT848.5 (ebook) | DDC 746.1 /4dc23

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First Edition

T o the center of my universe, my husband, Jim, and our beloved children and grandson, Chloe, Angus, Clancy, Alli, and James. Special thanks to dear hearts Lesley-Ann, Marea, Aleksa, Jacinta, Sylvie, Susan, Sharon, and Arlee, who have been so supportive and loving. I also am deeply grateful to online friends who have bolstered me when I have been exhausted and frazzledyou have kept me going when I needed to be recharged. Thank you! And, last but certainly not least, thank you to all the lovely people who buy my books and designs and sustain my work. Every single one of you: Bless your hearts! This book really is for you. I hope you feel the love!

I am so grateful for the wonderful people who helped me bring this book to life. My editor, Candi Derr, is a treasure and a joy to work with. I am also grateful for the rest of the wonderful team at Stackpole Books (Rowman & Littlefield), especially Patricia Stevenson, Julie Marsh, Caroline Stover, and Wendy Reynolds.

I am also very grateful for Donna and Gary McFarland at Dewberry Ridge Looms, Patricia Colony and the rest of the team at Harrisville Designs, and the team at Wool Novelty Company for the looms and loops used in this book.

Thank you also to John Briggs at Briggs and Little and Lion Brand for yarn for the book. And, last of all, a special thank you to my daughter-in-law Alliston Findlay at the Alberta Yarn Project.

I am lucky. I didnt meet my first potholder loom until I was an adult.

Why does that make me lucky? Because it meant that I had absolutely no preconceived notions about what a potholder loom could or could not do (or was supposed to do or not do). It meant that I saw this marvelous, incredibly simple, timeless, and elegant little loom as being unlimited in its design possibilities and potential.

It was love at first sight, and I have never grown tired of discovering new and wonderful things to make with the potholder loom. As I have written this book, I have found all kinds of new techniques and ways of working with the potholder loom. This process has been a source of huge delight. Weaving with them is contemplative, meditative, affordable, portable, and inviting.

Potholder looms produce modules that are then put together to create completely woven projects or to make embellishments that are appliqud to other preexisting items, if desired.

LINKS FOR INSPIRATION AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT

My how-to video tutorials for using the potholder loom in innovative and creative ways: http://www.youtube.com/user/NoreenCroneFindlay (type potholder loom in the search box)

Harrisville has a wonderful color pattern generator for the potholder loom on its website: https://harrisville.com/pages/potholderwizard

They are low tech and gentle on yarns. This means that treasured and fragile yarns can be used without stressing them the way large looms do.

There is virtually no waste with the potholder loom. (Large looms have a lot of loom waste, so gorgeous yarn simply gets cut off and tosseda yarnaholics nightmare!)

Another thumbs up is that weaving is very frugalit showcases the yarn without using anywhere near as much yarn as knitting or crochet does.

Potholder looms can also be very eco-friendly because they are great for weaving tarn (T-shirt yarn), hand-spun paper yarns, and other repurposed and upcycled yarn substitutes like fabric strips.

This book includes many techniques, hints, and tips that I have developed over my many years of weaving on potholder looms.

I hope that you will enjoy weaving wonderful treasures with the potholder loom!

To weave the projects in this book, you will need the following tools:

The potholder looms shown in this book are courtesy of three manufacturers, but other potholder looms will work as well. In the book, three sizes of potholder looms are used:

Dewberry Ridge Looms: 9-peg, 18-peg, and 27-peg potholder looms