Square Deal Weave-Along #13—Fringe
I’m not lion. We can weave fringe on frame looms. Lion is two pieces woven on a 4×6 Weavette, with fringe at each end. I stacked the pieces perpendicular, whipped a thread around the solid parts, stuffing before closing it up. Voila!
Here’s how you do it. (Illustration is for fringe at one end only. Try that before taking both hands off the handlebars.) Begin as usual, but on the second wrap, stop before you get to the top. What’s left of the top of the warp will be the length of the fringe. Take the thread outside the pins, back to the top and make the third wrap as usual.
Measure for needleweaving, plus a bit extra, which you will use to finish the edge. Weave as normal, finishing on either right or left side—no matter. Thread a smallish tapestry needle and overcast the last two weft threads all the way across.
If you have slippery yarn, you might need to do a genuine hem stitch for this step, but wool will hold with my down and dirty method.
Done.
If you have a Loomette or Bucilla Magic Loom with adjustable bar, there is another method of making fringe, which is half as dense. (The fringe, not the method.) Instructions are in the Bucilla Dictionary of Magic-Loom Weaving Stitches, which you can download here.





Hmmm…I can see the possibilities for some sort of cute tassel coming out of this (leaving at least half of the square or more as fringe and then rolling the weaved section–or stitching it into a puff or something). My ever-wandering mind has already taken off into embellishment possibilities *sigh*
Drat, now I’ll be sitting here all day wanting to play with my weave-it again. I really should stop checking my RSS feeds at work.
Oh yes–lion has a fringy tail, made exactly the way you imagine!
This is like magic!
That is adorable!