Whilst toodling around the interwebs one day, I stumbled across something that sparked a twinge of nostalgia. It was one of those potholders I remembered making as a kid by weaving stretchy loops on a square loom with an unwieldy metal hook.
With a few quick mouse clicks, I was the proud owner of a Harrisville Design’s Friendly Loom. Things escalated quickly!
I was drawn to tapestry before I knew what it was
I soon ran out of stretchy loops. As I eyeballed the empty loom, I thought, “I could probably wind and weave yarn around that pointy perimeter and get the same result.” (Warp and weft were not yet part of my vocabulary.)
After three or four potholder-sized granny squares, I was bored and decided to expand my experiment. Voila! A tapestry weaver is inadvertently born.
I’m honestly not sure where the idea to attempt something like this came from but I’m glad it came. No header. No “meet and separate.” No idea how to take it off the loom in tact (that was interesting.) Regardless of having absolutely no idea what I was doing, I persevered because I LOVED this feeling of creating an image with yarn!
No more wild west warp and weft
I spent several weeks saddled to my trusty steed, Trial and Error while haphazardly wandering the tapestry trails of YouTube. Every now and then I’d find a juicy tidbit but, my hunger for tapestry know-how was left mostly unfed. Until…. the day I stumbled across a video by Rebecca Mezoff.
I took several of her courses, starting with Little Looms. The quantity and quality of content coupled with her top notch presentation skills, cracked the world of tapestry wide open for me. I got way more than I paid for!
It probably sounds like I’m getting some kind of affiliate revenue for promoting her but I’m not. I’m just super pleased to have discovered such high-quality instruction about my newfound love… which only grows deeper as the journey continues.