4 Pocket Weaving “ipod/itouch/cell phone cozy”

Using color schemes in the usable craft of weaving.

Pocket Weaving steps and vocabulary

demonstrate under a camera after demonstrating to table teachers.

1. Make a loom

2. Warp it with string

3. Plan color scheme

4. Plan if you are doing tapestry weaving

5. Weave the weft on

Make the loom

• Pick a size (determines effort)

• Look at the cut edges to find the “grain” of the cardboard

• Draw a line 1 cm from each end

• Mark out the loom the same number of times on each end.

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• Cut on the marks, stopping at the long line that crosses the loom

• Don’t use the tip of the scissors, use the blades near the hinge of the scissors

• If you cut too deeply, tape it later

• Put your name on it

Table teachers

• The job is to listen and watch me and others, to learn the instructions, to demonstrate to me, then to teach the others at the table.

• Need to learn fast and listen to directions well and accurately. They like helping others. They are able to demonstrate and describe to others.

Warp it up with string

• Count the cuts you made on one end.• As you take string for warp, wrap it around

the loom longways, that number of times plus more if you want a handle.

• Decide what the top will be and start there.• Leave a 4” tail.• Repeat these 3 steps: “down, up, same,

loop sideways to next” (“same” and “sideways” are always at the top.)

• Put tape on the top and bottom

If you are doing tapestry

• When drawing your shape for tapestry weaving, look to see which way is the top of the loom.

Using the yarn and scissors

• Don’t mess up the skein. If it starts to tangle, don’t keep pulling.

• Take your time and pull the yarn tightly while weaving• Make each piece of yarn 2 spans long.• Don’t take the skein from the table that is in charge of it.• Keep track of your needle. Pay $.25 for a new one.• Make sure your colors look good together.• Use the yarn scissors only for cutting yarn.• Put the yarn scissors away in the Ringgold cabinet, not

the Matisse cabinet.• Save yarn scraps in the yarn scrap box.

Plan your colors & weaving pattern. Begin to weave your weft.

• Make sure they look good together.

• You may want to use a mechanical color scheme.

• Decide if you are going to “double deck” your weft.

• Take only one or two 2-span piece(s) of yarn to start.

• Put these into the needle.• Weave on the first side

and pull till you have a 4 inch tail left.

• Turn and weave the other side.

• Turn and weave the first side, going under different strings than last time.

Weaving

• Hold the needle at the “eye” when you pull.• It’s easier to weave in the middle of the loom.• Bunch up the weft to make your weaving

stronger. You can use your woven needle to help with this before you pull the yarn through.

• When you start a new piece of yarn, let 4” tails hang at the beginning and at the end.

Weaving outside of class3 steps in estimating how many double spans of

yarn you need to take to finish your weaving.

1. Estimate how much 2 spans of yarn covers on your loom.

2. Estimate the height of the unwoven area of your loom.

3. Divide by the second number by the first to get the total number of double spans to take home.

• Figure the number of double spans of each color.• Wrap them on something as you cut them off the

skein.

Getting yarn outside of classpossible solutions

• Ask the homeroom teacher if this is ok: Put one person in charge of the yarn box in one of the homerooms, and check every once in a while.

• Use only yarn from the scrap box

• Have them buy their own

finishing

• Turn the tails to the inside as you pull it off the loom

• Or

• Get a small needle and lock in each tail. Lock it along a warp string, going under 3 weft strings. Cut off the remainder of the tail.

What if…

• The loom wasn’t a cardboard square?

• You had no yarn?

Special effects:

• Tapestry weaving

• Fringing

• Braiding

• Embroidery

• Knotting

How could this be improved?

4th Grade Weaving

• Effort: – size of loom– tightness of weft

• Craftsmanship: weaving and tails are “locked in”• Creativity: tapestry weaving or other interesting

feature• Composition: Color harmony• Understanding:

– in on time with needle and nametag, – loom is warped correctly– weaving is taken off loom correctly