Hi! My name is Jessica Ostrow and I have been learning tapestry weaving on and off since the early 90s. I love color and yarn and love putting the two together! Painting with yarn? Yeah!! Paint is fun, too.. and colored pencils.. and markers.. and..and..and... I also sell yarn & knitting patterns at http://weavingrainbow.com I also have 2 other blogs at: http://weavingrainbow.com/blog http://weavingrainbow.com/HSblog
Sunday, June 2, 2024
Looping method of adding new yarn to tapestry
What I do is to fold the yarn, which doubles the strands. One piece of yarn becomes two strands. Two becomes 4, etc.. It works best when you have an even number of strands.
One end of the bundle has 2 cut strands, the other is the loop. When I get near the end of a looped bundle, I thread the new bundle into the loop. When I come to the end of the cut strands, I splice (or overlap, or tuck in the ends, whatever method you use when changing colors or continuing colors).. If I'm done with a color before I get to the loop, I'll snip the loop and splice.
If you don't want the "jag", then you'd have to splice unless you get lucky and the loop is at the end/beginning of a pass.
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