I had my first ever weaving class today and boy am I ever in trouble! I’m already trying to think of what possessions I could auctions off to finance a loom of my own! It was incredible. I really, really loved it, right from the very beginning.
Sometimes I just have to marvel at our uncanny luck in landing in this community. Learning to weave is a skill that I’ve been coveting for quite a while now. But all the classes I’ve ever found were always well out of our budget. The class that I am currently taking is a community service project. Completely free access to this beautiful 100 year old loom along with instruction from a master weaver. This inspires awe in me akin to how I feel about our weekly $1 donation yoga classes. How is it possible for us to have this kind of luck?? How is it possible that there aren’t more people in town who appreciate it???
Today we took turns working on two laptop mats for the library, but I’ve reserved a week long spot to work on my own private project. I’m so excited, I fear I may burst! Because of the limited hours that I will have access to the loom, I’m not sure how much I’ll be able to accomplish, but oh, it’s such a lovely prospect, none the less.
In other crafty news, I do have a number of completed or in-progress projects going on right now. Several of them are gifts that haven’t been gifted just yet. I’ll start to post them as they find their way to their respective recipients. And the others will come as I finish them. My sewing machine is again in the shop, a fact that is a great frustration to me… and an even greater frustration to my ever patient husband, who is constantly being subjected to my pouting over it. Oh dear. But I was so, so close to finishing, my very sweetest project to date! It’s hard not to be a little sore over it all. I mean, it did just get back. It doesn’t seem like I should have to part with it again so soon!
That looks so FUN! I have often thought I’d enjoy weaving….but I fear that I would have yet one more hobby that would distract me from finishing all my other projects!!
I’m wishing you healing sewing machine vibes!
How meditative, working on the loom. You are very lucky indeed to have such great things available in your community and for low cost at that!
I understand the sewing machine woes. I’m very thankful my partner is a sewing machine repair tech (amoung all those other things…)!
Oh! Iam so jealous!! I would love to learn to weave! Be careful or you’ll take up spinning next. It’s quite addictive and i, too, am trying to decide what to hock to get a wheel.
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Michelle
Oh, to echo everyone else, I am SO SO jealous as well!!!! Weaving looks so cool! Someday when I win the lottery, we will start a co-op of crafty things and spend our days weaving and spinning and knitting (even if I can STILL only knit a straight line) while making homemade bread! I would totally be taking a weaving class at WEBS if I had money!