Sarah Jane Humke

This weekend I took a class through my guild.  It was a class that I have wanted to take for some time now and finally had the opportunity to take it.  Since I have had a loom in my possession for some time now, I thought that it was high time that I learned how to use it.  Thus, a beginning weaving class.

This is what my loom looked like prior to tying on my warp.  I forgot to take pictures of the actual winding of the warp, sorry.

And these are what it looked like with my warp tied on.

 

After a little while weaving, the front of the loom looked like this:

And a little while after that, it looked like this:

And after two days of instruction and weaving, I ended-up with this:

I’m very pleased with how it turned out.  It’s obviously not perfect, but considering that it is my first woven piece since a few of those woven potholders in grade school, I think it turned out pretty well.

In non-weaving related news.  I am also working on a birthday hat.  I can now show it as I have actually knit on it in front of the recipient:-)

It is being knit from some 3-ply hand-spun Shetland wool yarn I made specifically for this hat.

 

I also had a wonderful surprise in the mail today.  I received a package from Baton Rouge from my bestie Elise.  Inside was a birthday card as well as these:

If I ever have an office again, the I Want to Believe poster is going up in it, just to freak-out the muggles:-)