November 16, 2013 Beginning Weaving Class

Kristy and Shawn Davis have two wonderful children, Grace age 4 months and Tommy age 4. They recently joined our Las Vegas Fiber Arts Guild wanting to learn how to weave baby wraps which are long scarves that are wrapped around a mother and baby.  

They asked me to be their teacher. We planned on 12 hours of teaching which came to 6 two hour sessions starting on November 16, 2013 and ending on January 31, 2014.

They rented a 24" wide 8 shaft Voyager loom from our Guild and since there were originally two of them wanting to learn how to weave, mom and dad, I let them use my metal 8" wide Structo loom that I had learned to weave on many years ago.

First I taught Kristy and Shawn how to wind their warp on my warping board. One of them wound a yellow warp and the other wound a pink warp. The idea was for them each to take turns learning how to do the entire warping and threading and weaving progress. Half of the loom, 3", was threaded for straight draw (twill) and the second 3" was threaded for reverse twill. 

As they wove they changed the treadling, the order that they pressed down the levers on the loom. This changed their design. Since I had my 8" Structo loom already threaded and ready to go, they took turns weaving on both looms. 

I provided their son Tommy with paper and crayons and he started to draw a picture for me. He's a wonderful artist. Next thing I knew his mom, Kristy, was showing him how to weave on my Structo loom. So now we had 3 weavers.