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Finger Weaving Instructions with Carol JamesCarol teaches you to fingerweave, beginning with a project with 8 strands of yarn, and resulting in a friendship bracelet or bookmark. She then shows you a more efficient manner to hold and manipulate larger numbers of threads. The video takes you stepwise through a series of traditional fingerwoven patterns, building from simple to more complex. Carol shows you how to execute the pattern with threads, and also how to map the patterns using graph paper. Follow the patterns on the attached handout. Also included is a section on mistakes, how to detect mistakes, how to correct, and how to avoid mistakes in the first place. |
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From the author of Fingerweaving Untangled, clear instructions on the subject of fingerweaving. This 2 1/2 hour video assumes no previous weaving or braiding experience. It begins with a project using 8 strands of yarn, resulting in a friendship bracelet. The video takes you stepwise through a series of traditional fingerwoven patterns, building from simple to more complex. Watch Carol's expert fingers move. Learn to make the designs watching animated follow-along patterns. Also included is a section on mistakes, how to detect mistakes, how to correct, and how to avoid mistakes in the first place.
What you will learn
- two different ways to set up the threads
- a basic method to make an 8-strand friendship bracelet
- how to twist fringes to finish the piece
- a more efficient method to use your fingers to manipulate threads
- how to check your work, what mistakes look like, how to avoid mistakes
- how to read patterns
- how to create diverse designs
- diagonal stripe
- vertical stripe
- sawtooth
- chevron
- reverse chevron
- arrowhead
- arrow & lightning
- bulls eye
- curlicue
Materials needed: yarn*, 2 sticks**, tape, scissors, an anchor point
**Sticks could be pencils or popsicle sticks or chopsticks or twigs or knitting needles
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