Create your very own loom using an embroidery hoop! Turn the hoop into a weaving loom to make a one-of-a-kind weaving wall hanging. You just need an embroidery hoop, different colors and weight of yarn, cording and scissors and of course, your imagination to create a beautiful weaving!
Begin the project by unscrewing or loosening the outer embroidery hoop. I used a 9-inch hoop for this project.
Cut at least 18 feet of cording (I used cotton beading cording). Tie a slip knot around the inside hoop. Start wrapping the cording around the hoop. You will go back and forth, making a wheel or spoke pattern. Pull the cord inside the middle of hoop, then back around the outside of hoop - while keeping the cording tight. You will see a pattern form. You are almost creating a figure 8 pattern as you loop the cording in and out and tightly around the hoop.
Continue around the entire hoop, pull the cord inside the hoop and back outside to continue the pattern.
Now you will take the end of the cording and wrap all the middle pieces together and knot. Now you have a tight middle center of the loom! You are ready to start weaving!
To keep the cording really secure, place the outside hoop back onto the hoop and tighten.
Get your yarn ready by wrapping it around your fingers and cut end. This will make it easier to "thread" or weave it in and out of the loom.
Start weaving by pulling the yarn in and out of the cording. Down and up, down and up. After you make your way around be sure to push the yarn tightly around the center to keep it from pulling and showing too much of the cording. When you end a color, leave about 1 inch of yarn on the back side of weaving.
Now add your next color - leave a little over an inch of new yarn on the back side of the weaving and start weaving back a few cords from the last color you stopped. Remember to keep pushing the yarn towards the center to keep it tight. I like to use different thickness or weight of yarn. I love the way the different textures look on the weaving.
There will be lots of yarn "ends" on the back of the weaving. You can tie them together and trim. You could also cut a pieces of felt to fit the back of embroidery hoop and glue onto back.
You can remove the outer hoop if you wish. I like the look of just the inner hoop.
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