I love the fact that I don't always have to come up with new item ideas. Sometimes my customers come up with ideas for me. A previous customer and his family were trying to find nice, cloth placemats but were having a hard time finding anything that would work for them. So they contacted me asking if this is something I can make. It had been a while since I had made placemats (I had made a set nearly 3 years ago for my family), but I always say that I want to be challenged

The Nap Blanket took a little longer than expected to be completed, but it is officially DONE! I used a very fine, cotton yarn which slowed things down a little. Also - the many pattern and color changes required a lot of concentration and I was only able to work when the house was very quiet (something that never happens for a very long stretch of time). All of the insanity is behind me now and the results are amazing. Each block has its own unique pattern and color combin

The pictures of the "Latest Creation" on the main page of this website aren't lasting too long right now. I am working my way through a very long 'To Do' list. The first few items were custom orders. Right now I am working my way through ideas and items to add to my 'stock' for the fall. The most recently _completed_ item was a custom order Baby Blanket. I wove a second Baby Blanket at the same time, but was too excited to start on the next project so the second blanket i

I have been up to my elbows in wool again. I love working with wool as it has such a clean, refined look. One of my two recent project was a very personal item - my younger son's Tallit. I did the weaving for it back in December 2012 while visiting our old town in the states - working on the loom where I first developed my love of weaving. I wove the material for both of my sons' Tallits on that trip thinking that it would likely be my last chance to work on a loom (little

I thought it might be fun to do a short series of blog entries on the process used to create items on the loom. Recently I had a client ask me to make her a large area-rug for her home. I documented every step of the process with photographs and will share them along with the story of Creating a Rug. The rug project was challenging for a few reasons. ~First, while I had been considering adding rugs to the list of hand-woven items I make on the loom, I had never made one befo

My love of weaving really began a few years back when I started helping with a program at my shul in the states where women (and occasionally men) came to weave a small Tallit for a Beni Mitzvah. While I was only part of this program for a short time before we moved to Israel, I really missed working with a loom after our move. I was blessed to be able to purchase my own loom several months later. While I have expanded my abilities and work with all types of yarns making ma

I recently set up my loom to make several bags of similar size all at once. when i do something like this - I only warp once, so I try to find a warp that can be used with several different treadle patterns to change the look and feel of an item - OR - I experiment with color and how it can really change things. I decided to use a Basket Weave pattern - something that I used to use a lot, but realized I haven't used lately. I had warped my loom with white yarn so almost any