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TUTORIAL:
HOW TO WEAVE A PLACEMAT WITH A LILY SPEED-O-WEAVE LOOM  By Noreen Crone-Findlay (copyright) Vintage Lily Speed-o-Weave Looms are a pleasure to work with. Often, the instructions are missing, so, Noreen has written this tutorial to show how she makes placemats with the Lily Speed-O-Weave Loom. The technique is not really weaving. It's more of a wrapping and knotting process. Place the Lily Speed-o-loom on a table, while working, to keep the loom stable. Enjoy! Lily Speed-o-looms have all kinds of creative potential! NOTE: Please do not reproduce these photos or instructions. Feel free to share the Url for these instructions, but please respect the hard work Noreen put into making the tutorial...... and don't copy or 'share'
Decide what size place mat you'd like to make. Put the loom together (in the photos, there are 17 pegs along the long side). Tie the first color of yarn to the lower right hand side of the loom. Take the yarn around the 2 pegs twice (see photo). Take the yarn around the next 2 set of pegs, twice.....
The yarn 'travels' along the lower edge of the loom The first layer
of yarn is complete. At the upper left hand corner, cut the first
color, tie on the second color, and wrap, from upper edge to lower
edge. Wrap around each set of pegs twice. The third picture shows
the second color completely wrapped.
Cut second color. Tie third color and wrap each set of pegs twice. The last set of wraps is horizontal.
Cut the third color, tie a knot with the first color. Then tie on the shuttle thread. FLIP the loom over, and bring the shuttle up through the space between the crossed yarn strands. Take the shuttle down, leaving a loop of thread on the surface. Each intersection will be tied 3 times.
Bring the shuttle up, through the loop. Tighten the thread, pass the shuttle down through the next set of yarn pairs at the same intersection, leaving a loop of yarn on the surface. Bring the shuttle up and through the loop of yarn. Repeat with the third pair of yarn strands at the same intersection. Then, move along to the next intersection. You will move in a continuous spiral around the loom, tieing 3 half hitch knots at each intersection to secure it. What if your loom didn't have a shuttle with it? There are options: A three inch long dowel, pointed at the ends, and whittled out in the center works beautifully.
So do some tatting shuttles, as long as they are narrow enough to pass comfortably through the gaps between the yarns. When you finish tying off all the intersections,
weave the yarn ends in and out of the yarn along the sides of the loom. *Insert the hook into the loops at the first peg, yarn over the hook, pull through the loops on the peg, yarn over again, and through both loops on hook, yarn over, pull through both loops on hook, insert hook between loom and yarn strands on outside of loom between first and second peg. Yarn over, pull up, yarn over, pull through all loops on hook, Yarn over, pull up, yarn over, pull through both loops on hook* Repeat from * to * around loom. Lift off the loom...... Voila! The table mat is done! These two table mats are the perfect size for a bistro size table. Enjoy! Why do cats always want to sleep on looms? hugs all round, Noreen |
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