Here’s another art project that Fen came home from school with- coat hanger weaving. I’ve been meaning to dive into some weaving up in this joint, and here it comes walking in our front door. She enjoyed it so much at school, she asked if she could show me how to do it.
How cool is it when a kid wants to teach you something they’ve learned?
I scrounged the house for wire coat hangers, because as a rule I try not to keep them. They make me a little queasy- but I managed to find 2 and we got to weaving! Lucky for us I have an obsession with yarn, so we had the pick of my stash….
Materials:
- Wire coat hanger
- Yarn
- Scissors
- Extras, if you please (beads, sequins, charms, anything you want to weave in there with the yarn)
Directions:
Use your superhuman strength to stretch out the coat hanger into somewhat of a circle shape.
Start with a piece of yarn the diameter of the circle and tie it to both edges, straight across the circle. Do this 7 more times, with 2 different colors of yarn. You’ll want 8 “spokes” in all, alternating the 2 colors. This helps you keep track of what you’re doing while you are weaving.
You now want to add 1 piece of yarn, in a 3rd color, to just the radius of the circle. (Oh be still my heart, there’s more math involved!) Tie this piece from the center out to the edge.
Now get your weaving hat on, ’cause we’re diving in! Take a piece of yarn the size of your wing span and tie one end to the middle of your spokes. Weave over and under as you go around in a circle from the inside out. When you reach the end of your yarn, you tie it to a spoke and cut off the dangly end. Just keep doing this with new colors, making whatever kind of pattern or non-pattern you like.
La La La
Keep weaving.
You can choose to weave on and on or do some fancy things like I did here- I took 2 of the spokes together and wrapped yarn around them and along the hanger edges. Experiment and have fun!
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