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Craft badge complete - with Weaving

 Trying to to a write up more regularly now. It isn’t so easy when I’m also doing other work - which also counts towards other badges. Anyway - this is about the Craft badge. You may remember that I did a needle-felted robin earlier in the year, and then I posted about the other three clauses I had completed - patchwork, appliqué and quilting.

Last week (or maybe the week before) I decided to finish a piece of weaving that I had started at a class I did a little earlier in the year.

I had attended a workshop in a local shop, where we were provided with a wooden frame of about 20cm square (or 8 inches), we got to bang the nails in ourselves, and we were given some other tools to keep as well - a plastic fork, a piece of dowel (useful for making loops), a smooth piece of batten (to help lift up the threads) and a wooden skewer (useful for smaller loops, and also for hanging.

I’ve liked the idea of weaving for some time, and when you know the basics, it is easy. I remember doing it in year 2 of my primary school - I’m not sure what happened to my piece of weaving from then, but I do remember that I used quite fine wool, and did it quite neatly and tight - so it took me a lot longer to get further with it! I also see some amazing weaving on various Facebook pages. I love it that changing the order of over and under can produce different patterns. On Facebook I see that artists don’t always finish a line in the same thread or wool, and thus create shapes and design a scene.

I’m quite pleased with how this has turned out, and I’m using it as my final item for the badge, as my word for the year is ‘Finish’ - I need to finish the things I start, including craft projects and badges!


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