
It's one of those crazy textured yarns. A kind I've never enjoyed working with. Sure, it looks fun… until you screw up and need to rip it back. That's where weaving comes in. It shows off the yarn without the interlocking, fuzzed-together impossible-to-detangle loops, which would be part and parcel of trying to knit or crochet with it. Problem is, no loom.
Darren said he would like for me to buy one (I'm leaning toward this one), but with his impending knee surgery, it seems the height of fiscal irresponsibility. So, for the last few weeks, I've been scouring my brain — and the internet — trying to come up with a feasible DIY solution.
Today,
inspiration struck. Using nothing but a cupboard door, flaps from a
diaper box, a couple pencils and some crochet cotton, the loom has been
assembled. Using the short flaps, I made a set of two peg boards and
taped them to the inside of the cupboard, one on the bottom and one on
the top. The cupboard has a child safety lock on it, so everything is
sort of clamped in place. Once it was warped, I folded some packing tape
over the boards. They are pretty flimsy and need all the help they can
get.
Pencils
and crochet thread create two harnesses, which lift the threads for the
shuttle to pass under. The shuttle is made from the two long flaps of
the diaper box.

It seems the fabric is going to be pretty loose. That's purely a guess as I have no experience and no way of knowing. If that is the case, a light felting is always an option. I guess we will see how it turns out. For a free loom, I'll take whatever I can produce.
Now that's done; dishes and laundry faithfully await.
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