It's been almost two years since I started thinking on the idea of creating a loom subscription. I had no idea about how it works, but I was looking for a way to obtain a recurring revenue, which many businesses look for in order to control the much-needed cash flow. Whether a business doesn't die,... Continue Reading →
Have you ever challenged yourself to figure out how much do you know about Pin Loom Weaving? Because every crafting activity has its own tools, equipment, usual vocabulary and also language that you need to know in order to understand the patterns and projects that you try and also to feel more like being a... Continue Reading →
Have you seen yourself in any of the following situations? FIRST SITUATION You want to make a nice blanket from 4x4" pin loom woven squares. You know that you need a lot of squares, so you get busy and settle into weaving pieces without stopping on your 4x4" pin loom (Zoom Loom, Weave-It, PerfectCouple, etc).... Continue Reading →
Almost 15 years ago I joined 3 pin loom woven squares and made a sweater! I already knew how to crochet, I had made several clothes, so I could understand its constructive logic: crocheting the body shape. So joining woven squares, without thinking much about how they would wrap around the body (plus increase and/or... Continue Reading →
If you are addicted to bias weave squares, the design that I bring today is perfect for you! I saw it browsing Pinterest a few weeks ago. It is a Christmas tree for the front door, made of different fabrics. I saw it and thought "it would look 100 times better with pin loom woven... Continue Reading →
In a previous blog post, I explained how to "enlarge" 4x4" size patterns on the Zoom Loom or Weave-It loom. On both looms the pins or nails are arranged in trios, so they are woven in a particular way. But it is enough to take into consideration that there are 31 vertical rows of warp... Continue Reading →
Diving into the trunk of memories a few days ago I came across the picture of the first textile design contest in which I was selected. I don't even want to remember how many years ago it was (13, 14?). I was a complete lola (young lady), as my grandmother would have said. The important... Continue Reading →
There is no first without a second, second without a third… and so we went until we reached the 5th year of celebrating pin loom weaving! The idea has never been more than to bring together those of us who love this technique and summon new addicts of the yarns, the patterns and the hours... Continue Reading →
As many of you know, I used to be a regular teacher at Stitches.events platform until a few months ago, when they declared bankruptcy. I would love to continue teaching online, but I think that Video Classes are way a better option, because I don´t forget any details while teaching and also you have forever... Continue Reading →
Have you dreamed of writing a children's story? When I was younger and saw new mothers starting to write children's stories, as if it was the next dream after having a child, I didn't understand it much. For me, literature was a completely different story, a profession, a vocation that requires learning and background. It... Continue Reading →
Imagine this. You go and make a 8x8" square in these 3 different techniques: crochet, knitting and bias weaving. You make them simple, by doing the easiest stitch, using the nicest yarn you can find (easy to work with!). Then you realize that the time you require to make each one is very different. Usually... Continue Reading →
Are you one of those weavers who only wants to weave and weave pin loom squares, but when it comes to joining them, to make a garment or object, you are extremely lazy? Sometimes I am one of those, I have to admit it. Because there are so many amazing ways to join squares, like…... Continue Reading →
I have heard that entrepreneurship is lonely. Not any venture, but the one without partners or help, in which you start doing everything yourself (employee, manager and all intermediate positions, at the same time). Especially if before starting a business you had the experience of working in a company, with more people, day by day,... Continue Reading →
Imagine that it is weekend and you are home alone. You've spent the whole week running around, under a lot of stress, spending the day full of activities, children tasks, work, commitments and housework. But today is all different, it's Saturday. Your family has gone out and today is a day just for you. Then... Continue Reading →
In my eagerness to build The Square Revolution, in which I can convey to the whole world how easy it is to create wonderful things starting from a simple woven square, and thus democratize crafts (not only "creatives" can practice them!), is that I bring you this new project: Monito´s Cowl. It is a simple... Continue Reading →
To you, who adore handmade items, this story should sound familiar to you, here it goes… Has it happened to you that someone special is having a baby, perhaps your sister, daughter, sister-in-law or best friend and you would like to give her something as special as her, made by you? Avoid simply going to... Continue Reading →
*** Watch the Promotional Video HERE. I am thrilled to present to you the first Pin Loom Weaving 1 Year Course I have ever created! Are you one of those ladies that have lots of activities during the day related to family and work and even though you love creating yarn-made-things with your hands, sometimes you feel... Continue Reading →
Every birthday, anniversary or any date that marks a milestone in our lives invites us to stop and reflect. Life goes by so fast (scientists say it goes by faster and faster!), so for me, at least, it's not until one of those dates arrives that I take the time to step back a bit... Continue Reading →
My little daughter thinks she's the most creative. I think she is, but she believes it, basically, because I constantly repeat to her: You are so creative! Have you heard about the importance of labels? Avoid the negative ones and promote the positive ones? Exactly, that's just what I'm trying to do! Somehow I am... Continue Reading →
The Kayu multi loom was born more than 5 years ago on a sheet of paper. The idea was to create my ideal pin loom! After spending years building my own looms in different geometric shapes and already running out of space to store them.. I wanted to design the pin loom of my dreams.... Continue Reading →
New year, new project! This beautiful and practical idea of hanging baskets was not entirely my invention… browsing Pinterest, I saw several bags like these, but crocheted. They seemed so easy and fast to make! From a simple crocheted triangle, they made these little cute and useful bags. Then I remembered my Kayu multi loom... Continue Reading →
A few months ago I was lucky to win a Fondart. It is a fund or financing granted by the Chilean government for many years, for projects related to the Arts and Culture. Before even presenting the project, what I was most interested in doing was being able to capitalize on my experience with pin... Continue Reading →
After the last blog post, I was left with the feeling that more examples for woven on the bias pieces were missing: combinations of shapes, colors, textures, etc. >> Read the PREVIOUS POST on how to create Christmas placemats by joining bias-woven pieces. The truth is that the possibilities are unlimited, there are so many... Continue Reading →
For me, the magic of pin looms happens when we join the woven pieces and form something new and unexpectable. Because sometimes it is difficult to imagen that joining woven squares we can achieve that are way more complex and amazing than simple throws, don´t you think? It's hard for us to imagine objects in... Continue Reading →
When you weave a new piece on a pin loom, do you design it beforehand or just throw yourself into the creative abyss? In my case, I do both. Sometimes I have a design quite studied, sketched and the colors well thought out before I start. Other times I don't previously think about anything, I... Continue Reading →
This is the 4th year that we launch this global celebration together with the great pin loom weaving author Meg Stump and it is something that fills me with pride. The purpose of this fest is to grow this worldwide pin loom weaving community make more and more people love this amazing technique. How this... Continue Reading →
Have you ever woven on a circular loom? What you get, by default, is a woven circle, obviously! But have you ever wondered if you can achieve the same with a square loom, like the Kayu loom? That's what I asked myself a couple of weeks ago and started to warp and try. What I... Continue Reading →
When the cold days begin, it is inevitable to think about knitting, don´t you think? More specifically, think about what we are going to knit this winter. Perhaps where you live, these days the campaigns of knitted squares to make solidarity blankets begin and you love being part of them year after year, knitting squares... Continue Reading →
Have you heard of variegated yarns? They are those yarns that are not made of a solid color, such as red, blue, etc. Rather, they are made up of a mix of colors. They can be made with several shades of the same color (tone over tone) or, more drastically, using completely different colors, to... Continue Reading →
Have you already woven the pieces of the Leopard double pattern? Because it's time to make the Animal Print big! Remember that in THIS VIDEO I detail the step by step instructions to join the pieces and build the bag. If you prefer to read the instructions, here we go with the explanation. >> Read... Continue Reading →
A few months ago one of my students asked me where she could get woven square designs: combinations of colors and stitches, basically. At first I thought I didn't know where from, because maybe the fun lies in inventing the patterns by ourselves, or not? Maybe not! My next thought was, EUREKA, she is now... Continue Reading →
After this post in which I told you about my experience adapting 4x4" pin loom patterns to looms 3 times larger, like the Kayu, I decided to give the 1st free Webinar to show the process in more detail and also the live examples. I loved the experience! When going "live", many things... Continue Reading →
You're not going to believe me, but more than 4 years ago I had the idea of making a 4x4" pattern on a very trending topic, which I'm only taking up again today in this post. It is present in fashion before, now and in the future, because it varies in colors and applications, but... Continue Reading →
You have probably heard that when someone teach you something you forget it faster than when you learn it by yourself. Although learning it by yourself takes more time, no doubt. But there is something even more important that you should know: when you learn something by yourself, you discover things that no one could... Continue Reading →
When you have many patterns to weave on 4x4" looms (Zoom Loom / Weave-It) and also pattern books and perhaps you have already ventured to invent your own stitches and patterns, surely you have wondered if you can use them on other larger looms, to make larger pieces. The answer is YES! And in this... Continue Reading →
What I'm going to tell you, I'm sure it happens to you too.. When I don't have a project in mind, I take some leftover yarn from here and there and... I try to see what comes out! And that's how, using the Lion Bran yarns that I had left over from the Pompa Poncho,... Continue Reading →
This year on Mother´s Day I am bringing you a surprise project for all weaving moms as a special gift for you. The novelty is that I made this project in 5 days and that exactly is how I published it, from Monday to Friday: each day I posted in my Instagram and The Ullvuna... Continue Reading →
When it comes to being creative, many of us are afraid of mixing colors, of not combining them correctly, of making it hard to make a garment, of finishing it and only then seeing that the colors we choose do not completely convince us... does this happened to you ? Well, today I want to... Continue Reading →
When I made my first book 100 Pin Loom Squares (2015), I honestly did not know about 4x4" pin looms or Colombian looms or trio looms, whatever you want to call them. Making that book was a path of discovery, of successes and errors, because although I have learned a lot, it takes time to... Continue Reading →
A few days ago I finished a weaving on the bias pin loom class at @stitchesevents in which my students asked me a lot about yarn thicknesses: what is the ideal one for pin looms, how to distinguish the right one among rustic yarns, sometimes without classification, what to do if I don´t want to... Continue Reading →
About 13 years ago I discovered pin looms. My mother had gone to Argentina for a trip and she had seen an artisan in the street weaving with this "wooden frame with nails", which caused her a lot of curiosity. My mom is an avid crocheter, regid loom weaver, macramé maker and knitter, but this... Continue Reading →
A few weeks ago I had the great experience of presenting my book Oversize Projects on a Pin Loom at the Stitches Events February event. Since last year I have been teaching pin loom classes by Zoom at some of the monthly events of this North American company that has been teaching various in-person craft... Continue Reading →
In my newfound (silent) campaign "wear your weavies," I've been more inspired than ever. I want to show how exploitable loom-woven squares are, that you can create infinitely with them, but I also want to create objects and clothes that I like, that I love the idea of wearing, hoping that the same will happen... Continue Reading →
The surprise project that I bring you today is made with the 3 geometric figures of the KAYU: square, rectangle and triangle. The Bang Bag, a color explosion (as the Big Bang!) It is the first project in which I integrate the 3 figures and the purpose is precisely that, to open your creative mind... Continue Reading →
I've been wondering for a long time what "moves" me about this particular technique, pin loom weaving. And then, the next question, what moves you to follow it, to use my pin looms, to make my patterns. They are doubts that are always there, but what I do know is my purpose in this and... Continue Reading →
I love to constantly find different materials at home to weave mini woven pieces, because they allow me to reuse materials that have been around loose or stored for years, abandoned in a drawer, such as cardboard, old notebooks, wool scraps, wood scraps, etc. But what I like most about these little discoveries is the... Continue Reading →
Do you know the ugly sweater? That American Christmas tradition of knitting or buying a Christmas sweater of those classic full of color ones? Well, 3 years ago I borrowed that tradition, as inspiration, to found the Mini Sweater Pin Loom Day! The main idea was to conquer and gather more and more pin loom... Continue Reading →
A little over a year ago, I ventured into this exciting publishing project: self-publishing a new pin loom weaving book. My book 100 Pin Loom Squares had been published 5 years ago and it had given me the opportunity to grow in this publishing field and reach many people, but I was so eager to... Continue Reading →
LEER EN ESPAÑOL It all started inspired by the idea of the ugly sweater, an American tradition you should know in which everyone knits or buys a Christmas style sweater to wear it on Christmas eve. It is an excessive Christmas sweater, a bit too colorful, a bit too kitsch, quite ugly I may say..... Continue Reading →
I have to confess that I have become a fan of making books. More exactly, of self publishing. How could I not be? Imagine! All you want to write on a book, you do it. The way or style you want to do it, you just do it. The colors, pictures you would like to... Continue Reading →
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