[Nfb-krafters-korner] Crafting Summer Camp in CT?

[Eleni Vamvakari]

I didn't see anything here about a camp.  May I please have more
information on it?  How much does it cost and can anyone, particularly
those who don't reside in CT go there?

Thanks,
Eleni

On 8/29/10, Eleni Vamvakari <magkisa83 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've done weaving on a lap loom and really enjoyed it.  I've also
> worked on a wooden kind that sits on a desk.  It has bars etc, so is
> not just the flat kind.  But I've never seen this one.  Can it be made
> at home?  I'm assuming that, if I bought one, it would be very
> expensive...
>
> On 8/29/10, Terrence van Ettinger <terrencevane at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Joyce, were you thinking of the warp?  Weft goes one way & warp the
>> other.
>> Think I need to see one of these to get it.
>>
>> Terrence
>>
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>> On Aug 28, 2010, at 10:14 PM, Blindhands at aol.com wrote:
>>
>>> Well, I have several looms ranging from 1 foot up to 7 feet across the
>>> hypotenuse of the triangle.  They are made of wood and some have nails
>>> on
>>> the
>>> 3 sides, but my larger ones have wooden pegs.  The standard spacing is
>>> 1/2
>>> inch apart across the hypotenuse and about 3/8 inch apart going down the
>>> 2
>>>
>>> sides.  That is the spacing between center of pegs or nails.  Now the
>>> cool
>>> thing is if you know anything about weaving you usually have to put the
>>> yarn on a loom top to bottom and then you weave side to side.  Again
>>> this
>>> is
>>> the cool part of a triangle loom You use one continuous strand of yarn
>>> and
>>>
>>> when you weave it, you actually are creating your weft and     oops help
>>> me
>>> out Dixie weft and weave[that doesn't sound right][well the up and  down
>>> and
>>> back and forth]  being created.  When you do need to  add another ball
>>> of
>>> yarn there is a way to do that.  It makes shawls  on the large one or
>>> blankets
>>> if you sew 2 triangles together.  I love to do  pocket books on the 3
>>> foot
>>>
>>> loom.  You fold the triangle like an envelope to  make them.  I have
>>> taught
>>> the Girl Scouts how to do it on the 12 inche loom  and they made change
>>> purses.
>>>
>>> You learn something new every day or it is a wasted day!  That is what
>>> I
>>> told my kids when they were growing up. is
>>>
>>> Joyce  Kane
>>> www.KraftersKorner.org  (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
>>> Blindhands at AOL.com
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