Zoom loom

If you’re embarking on your pin loom weaving career, or are ready for some clarifications, here are some 102-level basics. ***Remember, you can click on a photo to enlarge it; click the back …

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Although I like Schacht’s new Zoom Loom very much, there is a better way to join squares together than the one shown. Each square upon completion has two tails: a short one at the place where…

I made a few of these woven coasters with the Zoom Loom a while ago and I thought it would be fun to show you how I made them. When you weave a square with the Zoom Loom, you will notice that the woven fabric looks like a grid pattern. I thought it would be neat to cross stitch a design on it. After a few trial and errors, I got the results I wanted. I found that using a thinner yarn for the cross stitching looked way better than if I used the same weight I wove with. When I tried it with…

May the TURTLEs forgive me, but this is important! Occasionally, somebody in the pin loom community weaves a bias square on a Zoom or equivalent loom, usually several people ask if there are any in…

Another stash busting project is finished. I made a pin loom blanket of a lot of the smaller skeins and balls of handspun yarn in my stash.

So I did sit down and weave a square in the corner. It actually went better than any went before which can be seen by the end of this post. So here goes. I am assuming that you have read the last t…

Monday really should have been a bad day. I had to take my car in for unexpected repairs (urgh… the combination of those two words is always the worst, right?) and I ended up spending nearly six hours waiting for it to be finished. And then to top it off, I realised that as I...

Learn the basics of using the continuous strand–weaving method on a pin loom with this subscriber exclusive and then practice the technique with a free bonus project!

Pin looms are, in many ways, defined by their size. The fact that they are small supports their capacity to offer convenience, portability and ease of use. However the fact that we are always producing small patches of fabric leads to the number one burning topic among pin loom weavers, how to join them together. Which leads to my introduction of John Mullarkey. You have likely heard his name. John is the weaver who worked with the Schacht Spindle Co. to design the Zoom Loom. This is a link…