It is the last week the Bordering on Perfect WAL is open for guests. Thanks to everyone for weaving along. A special shout out to pledging members from the bottom of my yarn laden heart. You keep me in my seat doing what I do.

I’ve officially finished my towels. Reweaving these patterns is like visiting old friends. For guest the material is available to you until August 7, a week later than planned since I was running behind during finishing week. Keep posting those finished projects! I’ve extended the guest discount code deadline for Handwoven Home through August 7 using code WAL2-2026 for 20% off the digital edition. Pledging members can find the book in the master list of patterns.

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Done and “finished”  towels are beginning to spill off our looms. Check  out the latest in the forums to cheer on your  fellow weavers.

We all have them, projects we weave, then stall at the finishing work. Let’s cheer each other on to get over that finish line.

I’ll keep this week’s missive short and sweet. I’m not going to make it home to post the finishing materials on Friday. My family is calling for a few extra days on the Texas coast. I’ll post the finishing tips on  Monday or Tuesday. Thanks in advance for your patience.

I’m back at my desk after an inspiring four days at the WARP conference. I’ll have nine videos for you this week including getting started, joins, the fundamentals of beat, managing multiple shuttles, weaving the pick-up borders, and more. I love answering questions. Keep them coming!

Surprise! I have posted the warping tips today instead of Friday, as I am heading to Guelph, Canada, tomorrow for WARP’s annual gathering. If you are attending, please come by and say hi. While I am traveling, I will still check in regularly to answer your questions and offer support in the forums.

Monthly Q&A

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The pattern and welcoming material was posted last week. Weavers have two weeks to look over the pattern and gather their materials before I start posting weekly tips. On June 26, we’ll start with warping including how to warp a specific number of ends and place the pick-up stick.

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Welcome to those who have newly joined us for this weave-along and much thanks to those of you who keep weaving along. We are a beginner-friendly group and love cheering each other on.

The Bordering on Perfect Towels WAL is open for guest registration. If you know someone who would like to join us, please share. Cotton Clouds has put together a kit with small spools of the border colors and fine ground weft, so you don’t have to purchase full cones. We are already chatting about yarn over in the forums.

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Thanks for joining me for another weave-along. Keep those finished objects and works in progress flowing. We love details!

When I realized I was going to be out of town during our regularly scheduled Pledging Member Q&A on the 18th, I decided it was time to resurrect our Yarnworker bingo and have a little end of year fun. I moved our Q&A to this Thursday, December 11 at 6pm. Don’t fret if you can’t be there in person. You can watch the recording and still play along. This is an opportunity to pause and take stock of your weaving life, the new techniques you’ve tried, skills you’ve acquired, and weaves you would like to revisit.

What’s coming up?

The finishing tips are posted! You have all the info in your mitts to take full advantage of our block party. I admit the finishing on this one intimidated me. My reasoning for the inside out lining technique was to create a woven edge to work the baseball stitches. There might be a more eloquent technique to keep the lining from being visible at the top of the bag, but it doesn’t really both me. Sewers feel free to weight in on the forums.

We are rounding out our weave-along this week with finishing tips. This does not meant that you have to ready to finish! The weave-along is open to guests until December 18 and to pledging members forever. As I always say watching along is also an option. I know it is a busy time of year and we all have lots of demands on our time and resources. Sometimes seeing the process all the way through helps you get a better start. 

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We are officially into warping territory for our last weave-along of the year. Isn’t it amazing how many sheds you can create with the simplest of tools. I love the intimacy of rigid-heddle weaving. I want to let beginners know that I see you.  If this feels like the outer edge of your experience level, this is both good and bad. I want you to feel challenged, but also supported. Don’t hesitate to ask all the questions.

On Friday I’ll drop the warping tips videos including threading the heddle using a doubled end, making string heddles, placing the pick-up stick, creating the heddle rod shed, and inserting a heddle rod. All of this is part of “warping” or setting up the conditions to create the sheds you need to weave the pattern you want. In this case we want to weave offset blocks of weft floats. 

A short talk on the big picture that is lace

Our latest weave-along is officially underway. First step, download the pattern. Pledging Members, you can find it in the master list of patterns in the resources. Guests the pattern is available in the Yarnworker Shop on a pay-what-you-wish basis. I’ve recently changed the way I fulfill digital products. To keep the fraudsters at bay, I manually fulfill each digital order.  I check in frequently to make sure you don’t have to wait too long. I generally take Sunday’s off from screens, but I’ll take a peek in the shop a few times during the day while the WAL is active because I know weekends are often when you have time to weave. Click to find the links.

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