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Tool School: Standing Oval Knitting Loom
By Steve Butler What is it?– Knitting is fun, productive, cathartic, expressive and creative. But mostly it’s creative. In fact, when it comes to the selection of yarns available with all of the exciting colors, textures, and fibers that constitute them, your creative quotient is virtually unlimited.
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Friday Finds – Beading On a Loom
We hope you’ve been following along this week to learn more about our new Beading Loom. It’s available now, with a whole host of accessories. We know many of our customers may not have beading skills yet, so we created a few kits to help you get started. Using a kit to try a new craft is a fun way to try it out and learn the process before creating your own designs. A book by Carol Porter and Fran Ortmeyer is coming out later this summer with patterns and…
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Make It Monday – Beading Loom Jewelry Trio
We introduced a brand new product at the Bead and Button Show in Milwaukee this weekend. Our new Beading Loom is fully adjustable, allowing you to create beaded pieces of varying lengths using beads in a variety of shapes and sizes. Here’s a link to instructions for creating this beautiful three piece jewelry set using the new Clover Beading Loom to show you how it works. We’ll be sharing more about this exciting new tool all this week. We’re thrilled to bring you more beading options. Do you use beads in your…
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Watch Us Wednesday – Hana Ami Flower Loom
We put together a playlist of YouTube videos featuring tutorials for the Hana Ami Flower Loom. This loom can be used to create flowers with a variety of fibers including yarn, raffia, and ribbon depending on the look and application of the flower. The loom is packaged with the inserts you need to create different sizes and shapes of flowers. It’s an easy and fun process to make the flowers, as you can see in the videos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3wuXbDFXuE&feature=share&list=PL5CtqoNhlTkFaCl1wQi2HoqTdvxrqX1Ar
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Make It Monday – Raffia Flowers
Spring is the perfect time to decorate a straw bag with raffia flowers created with the Hana Ami Flower Loom. The loom can be used to create flowers with most any fiber for other projects. Here’s the link to complete PDF file of instructions to print or download to create your own raffia flowers. You can see all of our Make it Monday posts by clicking on the words Make it Monday below this post or by visiting our new Make it Monday Pinterest Board. Have you tried any of our…