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Artful Threads - my complete 9 month course of colour blending/multiple techniques
WELCOME
Welcome
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ABOUT THIS COURSE
Community and Email Contact
Course equipment
A bit more about yarns
Sett/How many warps will I need?
What to expect from this course - layout and ability levels
'Cartoons' or templates
SEASCAPES (my starter classes with limited colour yarn pack)
Yarn colours needed to start your seascape journey
How to use the sections below/ability levels
1. Bookmark - let's learn to colour blend (beginner)
2. Blended seascape (beginner)
3. Seascape with curved ocean, hills and sun/clouds (beginner/intermediate)
4. Seascape with boat (beginner/intermediate)
5. A night scene with moon (an exercise inserting lines and simple meet & separate) - beginner
WHAT COLOURS FOR THE REST OF THE COURSE?
What colours/weft will I need to use now?
LANDSCAPES
1. Let's make a house (beginner)
2. Trees - woven side on (beginner)
3A. Lake scene - bringing together all we've learned so far (intermediate/advanced)
3B. Lake scene - finishing the sky
What happened when I combined 3 classes together .....
ABSTRACT
1. How to create a landscape with hatching, using correct weft placement (beginner)
2. How to colour blend with multiple colours using 'values' of colour (the 'greyscale' method)
FOUR SELVEDGE WEAVING - WITH A SAFFRON/CHLOE OR SIMILAR
1. Let's look at four selvedge with interlocking shapes (beginner/intermediate)
2. Making a landscape with freestyle colour blending (beginner)
FRINGELESS WEAVING - THE ANCIENT METHOD USED BY ANDEAN/NAVAJO PEOPLES
Fringeless weaving using a classic Mirrix loom with shedding device
SHAPES AND SHEDS
1. Making a flower - with lots of shed changes to practise (intermediate)
2. Making art with lines and loops (and leaving exposed warps too!) (intermediate)
WARP/WEFT MANIPULATION - EXERCISES
How to use the sections below
Twisting Warp
Worms
Trees - contemporary style
Exposed warp play - see Class no 2 of Shapes and Sheds
ARTFUL THREADS - FINALE FOR 2025
Lake with jetty at sunset (and introducing the 'split weft' technique)
EXTRAS - USEFUL WEAVING TECHNIQUES
Warping a Mirrix Pocket Loom
Double Half Hitch Knot - quick recap
Pigtailing
Meet and Separate
Sewing in Tails
Braided Warp
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