First... I made a valiant try to learn how to weave on an Inkle loom, and made these lovely soft cotton reins for horses which it seems weren't strong enough to 'hold your horses' so I abandoned that idea.....
Then I moved up to a rigid heddle loom and made my mom some kitchen towels... They ended up being three different sizes when I washed them... so..
Oh but notice the super cute little punch needle bird I made... I need to try more of that when I find time... That and rug hooking/punching and so many other things I got off on false starts with last year...
Anyway, then I got the bright idea I could make some rag rugs to sell and made this, but it was too hard to do on such a small loom, so finally, I was given/gifted/loaned a floor loom... which sits in the corner and mocks me because it needs work done on it that I can't afford to do like putting new shafts on it :( I am thinking it may become a sort of tapestry loom when I find the time to think how to do that....
Well I still want to weave, but may have reached my level of incompetence (see "The Peter Principal") However one good thing did come of it...
I am still making the weaving shuttles in the shape of animals... "Wild Weavers"... You can find them here in my Etsy Shop: Ajaia Ajaja
Of course I'm still making beadwork...
And so, due to the immediate need to make some actual income... here I am designing coloring pages for adult coloring books... Think demons, dragons, fairies, gargoyles...
More on that later... I promise!...
