my weaving beginnings
A long time ago The Pierce City Arts Council had a class/display area in the buildings a block over from the Library. Various artists did classes. A friend of mine (a library patron who introduced me to SW MO Fiber Folks) did a class on weaving. Now, years ago Jerry had done some weaving classes, never got a loom, didn't carry through with it. Anyway, she loaned me a table top loom, and I took her class. First assignment was to weave 4 identical mug rugs. Well, I didn't. I did, however, weave 4 very similar ones, and this is one: All made from her supplied warp, and the weft was leftover sock yarns. Then I bought some yarn, and wove this: A while later, I took a class from Dorothy Cliff, in Granby MO. She also loaned me a loom owned by the Fiber Folks. But for weft, she uses old sheets. Then I experimented weaving twill: I did enjoy it - but not enough, I think, to buy a loom and start an entire new craft.