The High Class Low Maintenance Throw: First Project off the Big Loom

This was the getting-to-know-the-new 8-shaft loom project, aka The Big Loom.  Although I only used 4 shafts, it was more than enough for me to get the feel of this new loom.   

Everything went better than I could have hoped!  In fact, I am thrilled with how this came out! 

 

 

Here's a photo of my friend, Janna, trying her hand at weaving for the very first time.

 

This is as far as I could go and still gt a good shed. 

 

This is the view from the back, before I untied the warp strings and pulled the piece off the loom.

This is the first time I did a hem stitch where it seems to have turned out well. 

I trimmed the strings to a uniform 7 inches on this side, and 6-1/2 inches on the front end.  I twisted the fringe by hand over the course of a few nights.  12 twists clockwise, and 6 counter-clockwise.

The kit was from Yarn Barn of Kansas: The High Class Low Maintenance Throw.  I purchased this kit a few years ago, but my old loom was not quite wide enough to do it justice, so it waited until I had a wider loom.  

The yarn is acrylic -- I wasn't too crazy about using acrylic because it stretches.  And so far I've been using all natural fibers (cotton, wool, silk).  But I found out this yarn was very forgiving and easier to work with than some of the other fibers.  Not a single broken string on this project.  It was only a 3 yard warp.  Since the reed was a bit rusty, I also wanted some inexpensive yarn to floss all those "teeth" without worrying about staining the project with rust.

Here are the previous posts about this project:

Getting ready to weave again ... (Sept 9, 2023)

What to do with Rusty Reeds (Sept 8, 2023)