A friend was looking to get rid of her loom, oh, about 8 years ago, and loaned it to me with the hope that I'd fall in love with it and buy it. But that didn't happen. It was one of those very large (took up a whole room), complicated looms. I just didn't know where to start. Too much for the first go. So I "stored" it for her for a bit until she found a buyer.
Years passed. I continue to mildly hanker after a loom. I look at little table looms but they always seemed to be using fine cotton thread (I say thread instead of yarn, as it really did look finer than I would happily knit with) in vaguely unattractive plaids. Not for me.
Then, this year, I read a post by the Yarn Harlot about weaving. Now, I read Stephanie's blog because she is a clever, real, immensely funny, knitter. And there she was blogging about her weaving efforts. And lovely weaving efforts they were! And she made a couple of important points:
- simple looms really are simple - she uses a "Cricket" but also pointed out the new Ashford Knitter's Loom - now if that didn't have me rushing over to the Ashford site, nothing would! A loom made for knitter's ... how cool is that??!!
- you can use knitting yarn!! Wow, I don't have to buy that skinny cotton stuff!!
- it only takes 5 hours to make a scarf!!! Zowie
- it's portable. Really. It has a cute little bag and everything. It folds up and doesn't take a whole freaking room! (Bear in mind that I already have a whole room of yarn, I can't afford another room for weaving - my house is too small for that.)
