Learning to Weave Twills on 4-Shafts // Episode 168 // Taking Back Friday // a fibre arts vlog

[@kellipage2858]

Thank you for the episode. I'm impressed that you started teaching 2 years after you learned to weave. But on the other side of learning, teaching helps to cement the topic, craft, whatever, in your brain, well done!

[@sweetgeorgia]

Thanks Kelli!! I think I’ll never be done learning to weave and I’m excited to turn around and share what I’ve learned so far, as I go!

[@UnwindHollywoodWay]

Felicia - I would love to see a class on SOS on how to convert a rigid heddle pattern to one that cam be used on a four shaft loom. Happy New Year!

[@dezziec3000]

I come from a cosmetology background, and when you kept saying quebecois , i kept hearing Kevyn Aucoin(a famous make artist) 🤣 I love this. I have a rigid heddle loom from ashford and been scouring youtube and seeing all these beautiful floor looms and table looms is giving me envy for more space in my home. Hopefully I can find a school like yours here in NC. Our big fiber festival in Raleigh is in March, I pray to sit at a floor loom then.

[@nicolettegevirtz5717]

I want to learn to weave sooo much! The blankets you showed are my dream projects. I think k I might pony up and get a table loom and try!

[@emilyackertrutten268]

Just got a Leclerc loom yesterday - wanted to thank you for your videos about your Leclerc looms (particularly your refinishing one) as they gave me a lot of confidence to make the purchase. I'm a total newbie and will be looking at doing your weaving course.

[@kreativekymona]

I learned how to weave on a rigid heddle loom December 2022. Just 7 months ago and I’m hooked. My first sample piece was a straight weave with two colors. After that I created a rug and just last week a cute bag. I’m waiting on my 4-shaft floor loom to arrive so I can play and have some fun. I will definitely take this course when it arrives.

[@sweetgeorgia]

Can't wait to hear about your new 4-shaft loom! Hope you'll post about it!

[@kreativekymona]

@@sweetgeorgia I will share for sure.

[@thebigcanoftuna]

Your videos is the reason why I started to learn. I looked and looked and found a place that had a scholarships available so I could afford to learn but holy getting the foot in the door is so hard

[@BenjaminKrudwig]

Weaving with your yarns is delicious! :D

[@morningrose428]

I'm just starting with weaving, but I'm planning on using a triangle shawl loom. I'd love to have a table loom, but I just don't have anywhere to put it! I love seeing these videos though. I can't wait to see the results of that class!

[@kevinmonceaux2101]

I've had a Leclerc Compact floor loom for a while. I got sidetracked on other hobbies after getting it partially set up. I finally finished setting it up recently and was looking for ideas for first projects. I only have the twelve dent reed it came with, and some 5/2 and 8/2 cotton I bought way back when. I probably should have started stash building with heavier weight yarns to start with. I almost let my School of Sweet Georgia membership lapse while I was sidetracked on other hobbies. I'm glad I didn't. It's time to explore some Sweet Georgia classes and get started weaving.

[@marymack1]

I've been weaving on a rigid heddle loom for a bit, and recently inherited a 4 shaft table loom. This will be interesting. 😊

[@worksofhands]

Beautiful samplers. I wanna learn to make those soon. Im totally convinced to enrol soon.

[@marvinrust6478]

you have a really wonderful way of explaining different weaving patterns, thank you. you talk about 4 shaft looms, I was wondering if you have ever come across a loom that is 4 shafts and 4 treadles, which means she is a direct tie-up, I really want to make many things on her, We think that she might have be made in Sweden, but are not positive, I don't know ho to ask or where to look,

[@kreativekymona]

I love that gamp/swatch. I would love to take that class.

[@sweetgeorgia]

💕

[@terrydickson6468]

❤❤❤

[@Lainygw]

Hi from Abbotsford! Working on my first project on a 15" leclerc table loom. 😊

[@UnwindHollywoodWay]

Thank you so much for the new classes. I am looking forward to signing up for School of SweetGeorgia as soon as my busy season ends? Would you share the required weaving width for your blankets? I'm working on a 50+ year old Macomber 4 shaft loom with a 20" weaving width, which was a wonderful hand me down from a wonderful friend. :)

[@sweetgeorgia]

Wonderful to see you here Stephanie!! And so excited to hear that you are weaving! Yes, my blankets were woven on my 45" wide Leclerc Mira II counterbalance, and it was about 38" wide in the reed. You can always adapt the patterns to fit your 20" wide loom and make something else like pillows or scarves or bags, or whatever you like!

[@UnwindHollywoodWay]

@@sweetgeorgia thanks Felicia! I'm eager to join the classes..I just need to be in one spot long enough with my loom to join in. 😀 I'm pondering a way to join two or three 20" wide (really 18" finished) into one wider blanket. I like to think big ❤️

[@sweetgeorgia]

@@UnwindHollywoodWay Absolutely! Sew the strips together!

[@resourcedragon]

"Somehow acquired some floor looms." Yes, they just materialise out of thin air during the night. And once they're there, you can't send them away.

[@sweetgeorgia]

🤣

[@gailjahn8303]

This is such amazing information, thank you so much. Now I need to ask you what sweater/shawl pattern are you wearing in Episode #168 - I know you revealed this in another video, but I cannot locate it! Thank you again for this great information!

[@lphilip4689]

Hi. I have wanted to learn weaving for so long. Love your videos but I’m afraid the weaving terminology is still beyond me. Do you have a good resource for understanding the technical terms? I also would like more info on where to find a starter loom, used maybe. Also classes. I’m in the Great Lakes region. I’d welcome your ideas. Thanks.

[@chefpeggyhalderman3349]

I would like to take this course...but it has passed. Can I take the course (and order the materials) if I join SOS on, say, a quarterly or annual basis? Excited about this program!! Thanks.

[@sweetgeorgia]

Absolutely! You can join at any time and the courses are all archived there so you can watch at your own pace on your own schedule. Thanks!!

[@ranael-sabaawi7829]

Great video! For the second twill gamp with BFL silk fine, was the BFL used for the warp as well as the weft? I recently bought a floor jack loom. Do you think the BFL will be good for warp in that scenario?

[@sweetgeorgia]

Yes! I used BFL+Silk Fine for the warp AND the weft and it worked beautifully. Enjoy your new floor loom! Woohoo!

[@DasEmpress]

Do you have a list somewhere of appropriate starter looms? I've just joined the school (I'm a knitter), and I'd love to learn how to weave, but am completely clueless! Thanks! Rhonda

[@sweetgeorgia]

Thanks Rhonda! I actually wrote a big long post about choosing looms, because there are so many variables depending on what you might want to weave... this could be a good starting point for you: www.schoolofsweetgeorgia.com/how-to-buy-a-weaving-loom/ enjoy!!

[@DasEmpress]

@@sweetgeorgia Thanks! I'm heading there, now! 😉

[@sablebrown123]

Do you have a class on basic steps of dressing a 8-shaft loom and how to purchase a raddle for the loom that is the only part I am missing.

[@sweetgeorgia]

We have several lessons where we show how to dress a loom from back to front. It would work the same for an 8-shaft loom. And what kind of loom do you have? What kind of raddle are you looking for? Cheers

[@sweetgeorgia]

We have several lessons where we show how to dress a loom from back to front. It would work the same for an 8-shaft loom. And what kind of loom do you have? What kind of raddle are you looking for? Cheers

[@sablebrown123]

I have a Ashford 8 shift table loom I need a Ashford raddle kit, can I get one on e-bay or Etsy at a better price. and shipped to me before the weaving course starts. I live in Miami, Fla. any help with this will be totally appreciate. Thank You Beverley@@sweetgeorgia

[@hammoussiu.c.w8816]

Your art artisans very interesting

[@gemmaluescher-verseckas1243]

I don’t understand inches( my first project that I am starting with is 5 threads per cm 120 threads)

[@maryannkennedy1579]

How to read a pattern for wea ing.

[@Irene1580]

And then there was the high heels at the floor loom.

[@sweetgeorgia]

hahha yes! I just stumbled on that photo in my archive this week!! I have definitely changed my weaving footwear since then 😂