How many times as a newer tapestry weaver have you felt frustrated because you’re weaving along and suddenly your wefts are in the wrong shed?
Wait, what is a shed anyway?
How many of us who have been weaving tapestry a long time remember those days when every time we added or subtracted a weft in our design our sheds were wrong? Or we are trying to fill in a dip between two forms or add a new color into a pattern and there were either lice or the wefts just wouldn’t go where we wanted them to go?
We have ALL been there.
Shedding issues are some of the most frustrating circumstances you’ll experience as a newer tapestry weaver. Those instances where your wefts are in the wrong sheds won’t stop happening, but there are some simple practices that you can use to fix your sheds quickly without fuss. With practice, those methods become second nature and the frustration goes away.
The free mini-course
I’ve put together a video and handout to help you figure out shedding issues. This mini-course will get you started with the simplest way to fix your sheds when you run into this issue. I hope it helps!
UPDATE March 2024: I am updating the free mini-course information and will have that available in a new blog post very soon. You can always watch my Tapestry Picks newsletter for the latest updates. I am also running the Fixing Your Sheds online course live starting March 30th. More information is HERE.
The video below demonstrates what I’m describing in the handout offered above. If you're getting the blog via email, you can watch the video on YouTube HERE.
Do you have this sort of shedding problem in your tapestry practice and have you learned how to fix it? If you’re still struggling, there is an online course to help! In Fixing Your Sheds, you’ll learn to recognize shedding problems even before they happen and practice all the ways to fix them. I’m running that class with a live interactive component in late April of 2023 (and again March/April of 2024) and you can reserve your spot by going to the information page here: https://rebeccamezoff.com/shedding-workshop
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