I treated myself to a little gift this holiday season: the Speed Weave mending loom.
This item is so cool: I think of it as a fusion between a darning egg and a tapestry loom. It’s also a neat introduction to basic weaving. It is so fun to use, and I’m just enjoying the journey of learning. I’ve been concentrating on how to stitch a straight warp with the right tension, and observing how different yarns work on the loom.
I bought my loom from an Etsy shop called Speed Weve. I chose the loom with the magnetic strip on top. I liked the idea of always knowing where my needles are. My order also included a tiny hook with a latch for mending runs free of charge (see pic).
The seller is located in the Ukraine, so it had to travel a long way to reach me, and it almost didn’t. The postal service accidentally delivered it to an address 2 blocks away from me, so when I got the email saying it had arrived, it wasn’t there. After over a week of calls to the post office and messaging the seller, my package finally found it’s way to my door. Wow! It was like Christmas before Christmas 🙂 A happy ending to a lost package story.
And of course I began quickly after receiving my package. I had time to make up for, so I made sure not to waste any. My first project was mending a sock from one of my favorite pairs:
I was able to make this repair fairly quickly, more quickly than I would without the loom. The loom stabilizes and holds the area that needs patching, which makes it much easier and faster to effect repairs. It also not only holds a tension warp, but also sheds the warp. This means that it lifts half the warp to allow the shuttle to go through. That’s the big deal about it. It functions like a loom on a miniature scale for clothes repair.
My mending game just leveled up. If you like to repair clothes, as I do, and not throw them out, I recommend this tool. It makes repairs easy and fun.
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