Category: Blog Posts

I thought I’d do a blog post on why we moved to the Isle of Skye.  Over many years my husband Rob and I have loved visiting the North West Highlands and Islands of Scotland. This ranged from Geology field trips at university to holidays before and with our child.…

I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting recently about where Weft Blown has come from and where I want to take it to in the future.  Weft Blown started out when I was in the middle of studying the HNC Contemporary Constructed Textiles course at Bradford College. I was living…

This week has been very exciting as I have been very lucky to have a sneak peek at the new Lojan Flex Rigid Heddle Loom. The Lojan Flex is a new loom available from April 2025 and it can be either a rigid heddle loom, a 4 shaft loom or…

Hello and welcome to the Weft Blown Blog! I am getting back into writing blog posts and I am starting off with a post that was on the Weft Blown Cloud about how to calculate sett for weaving. One of the most common questions I get asked is what reed…

Schacht Zoom Looms are great for weaving squares. However, sometimes a square is not enough and you need a triangle as well for your project such as for the Weft Blown Wee Croft Hoose. In this blog post I will talk you through how I weave triangles on my Schacht…

Well, 2020 has been quite a year so far and not gone how we thought it would back in March when I wrote the last blog post. Obviously, Covid-19 has had an impact on us and one of the main impacts that has happened is that I’ve struggled to get…

Living in West Kilbride on the Ayrshire west coast of Scotland does mean that we can experience all the weather in one day. I’ve always been one for wrapping up warm and grabbing a scarf when I go out especially in the Autumn and Winter.  However, walking along the beach…

Whether you’re a rigid heddle weaver or just someone intrigued with patterns in weaving, the fun things you can do with a table loom does become tempting at some point. A table loom is different from a rigid heddle loom as instead of having a rigid heddle reed with slots and…

Getting the right loom for a beginner weaver So you’ve decided you’ve wanted to give weaving go and you think that a rigid heddle loom is for you but there’s so many choices out there that you might not know which loom to choose. Well, don’t worry as in this…

  It’s time for another free pattern and this time I’d thought I’d talk through the basics of how I design my handwoven scarves. Photography has always been a passion of mine and I especially love taking photos of the landscape and sky around us. Living in West Kilbride on…