Welcome to Stash Weaving Success!

Meet your teachers

Course Calendar

Stash Weaving Success Course Roadmap

Stash Weaving Success on Social Media

The online classroom and how to use it

How to Use Zoom

How to search videos

Getting Project Help

Printing Course Content

SWS 2021 Complete Project Specs

Frequently Asked Questions

Course Downloads

Calculators, Links, and Helpful Videos

Webinar Schedule

Webinar Livestream

Quick and Dirty Webinar Recordings

6 June 21 - Sunday Lecture #1

9 June 21 - Wednesday Q&A #1

13 June 21 - Sunday Lecture #2

16 June 21 - Wednesday Q&A #2

20 June 21 - Sunday Lecture #3

23 June 21 - Wednesday Q&A #3

27 June 21 - Sunday Lecture #4

30 June 21 - Wednesday Q&A #4

4 July 21 - Sunday Lecture #5

7 July 21 - Wednesday Q&A #5

11 July 21 - Sunday Lecture #6

14 July 21 - Wednesday Q&A #6

18 July 21 - Sunday Lecture #7

21 July 21 - Wednesday Q&A #7

25 July 21 - Sunday Lecture #8

28 July 21 - Wednesday Q&A #8

Welcome to Chapter One: Plan for Success!

Picking a project

Using yarns

Deciding on drafts

Choosing colors

Sampling: When and why to do it

What did you learn? Plan for Success

Discuss Chapter 1!

Project Mission: Plan for Success

Share your project plans!

Crossword Puzzle: Plan for Success

Word Search: Plan for Success

Crossword Puzzle Solution: Plan for Success

Word Search Solution: Plan for Success

Your Stash Weaving Success Project

SWS Complete Project Specs

SWS Project Downloads

Welcome to Chapter Two: Let's Talk Yarn!

Fibre families

Key yarn properties

Yarn construction

Mystery yarns: Identifying and measuring

Deciding on sett

Stash yardage: How far will it go? [calculator]

Watch out: Here be dragons!

What did you learn? Let's Talk Yarn

Discuss Chapter Two!

Project mission: Let's Talk Yarn

Crossword Puzzle: Let's Talk Yarn

Word Search: Let's Talk Yarn

Crossword Puzzle: Let's Talk Yarn (Solution)

Word Search: Let's Talk Yarn (Solution)

Mini-Course: Using the Color Editor

Printable Color Editor manual

Welcome to Chapter Three: Let's Talk Color!

The three elements: Yarns, draft, and color patterning

Yarns: Color mixing

Playing with color mixing

Yarns: Pattern clarity

Drafts

Playing with drafts

What did you learn? Let's Talk Color

Discuss Chapter Three!

Project Mission: Let's Talk Color

Project Design: 4-shaft Drafts

Project Design: 8-shaft Drafts

Crossword Puzzle: Let's Talk Color

Word Search: Let's Talk Color

Crossword Puzzle: Let's Talk Color (Solution)

Word Search: Let's Talk Color (Solution)

Welcome to Chapter Four: Seductive Stripes!

Stripe width

Stripes and their neighbors

Balancing stripes

Arranging stripes: Repeating, rhythmic, and random stripes

Time to Play: Rhythm and balance

Varying sett across the warp

The denting calculator

What did you learn? Seductive Stripes, Part I

Discuss Chapter Four!

Project mission: Seductive Stripes, Part I

"Design Thinking" demo

Project Design: 4-Shaft Draft #1

Project Design: 4-Shaft Draft #2

Project Design: 4-Shaft Draft #3

Project Design: 8-Shaft Draft #1

Project Design: 8-Shaft Draft #2

Crossword Puzzle: Seductive Stripes, Part I

Word Search: Seductive Stripes, Part I

Crossword Puzzle: Seductive Stripes, Part I (Solution)

Word Search: Seductive Stripes, Part I (Solution)

Welcome to Chapter Five: Seductive Stripes, Part 2!

Warp stripes, weft stripes, or both?

Designing with weft and treadling stripes

Designing with warp AND weft stripes

Design Thinking Demo: Warp, Treadling, and Weft Stripes

Time to Play: Warp, treadling, and weft stripes

Stripe design tools

Managing domineering colors

Pitfalls: Here be dragons!

What did you learn? Seductive Stripes, Part 2

Project Mission: Designing your drafts

Project design: 4-shaft Draft #1

Project design: 4-shaft Draft #2

Project design: 4-shaft Draft #3

Project design: 8-shaft Draft #1

Project design: 8-shaft Draft #2

Crossword Puzzle: Seductive Stripes, Part 2

Crossword Puzzle: Seductive Stripes, Part 2 (Solution)

Word Search: Seductive Stripes, Part 2

Word Search: Seductive Stripes, Part 2 (Solution)

Welcome to Chapter 6: Dress for Success

Winding Stash Warps

Sneaky Stash Warp Tricks

Exercise: How would you wind these?

Warping Front to Back

Warping Back to Front

Sleying Mixed Setts [F2B and B2F]

What did you learn? Dress for Success

Discuss Chapter Six!

Project mission: Dress for Success

Crossword Puzzle: Dress for Success

Word Search: Dress for Success

Crossword Puzzle: Dress for Success (Solution)

Word Search: Dress for Success (Solution)

Welcome to Chapter 7: When the Beater Hits the Fell

Stash Sampling: Why and How

Starting to Weave: Ready, SETT, go

Running Out of Weft

Weft Stripes

Tension While Weaving

A Real World Example

Project Mission: When the Beater Hits the Fell

What did you learn? When the Beater Hits the Fell

Crossword Puzzle: When the Beater Hits the Fell

Word Search: When the Beater Hits the Fell

Crossword Puzzle: When the Beater Hits the Fell - Solution

Word Search: When the Beater Hits the Fell - Solution

Discuss Chapter Seven!

Welcome to Chapter 8: Mixing It Up!

Evenly mixed warps vs. striped warps

Selecting yarns and drafts for mixed warps

Arranging yarns in mixed warps

Time to Play: Mixed Warps

Mixed Warp Setts

Winding and Weaving a Mixed Warp

Method: Winding a Mixed Chain with NxN Cross

What did you learn? Mixing it Up

Discuss Chapter 8!

Welcome to Chapter 9: Finishing Up

Dry Finishing

Wet finishing

Discuss Chapter 9!

Project mission: Finishing Up

Crossword Puzzle: Mixing & Finishing Up

Word Search: Mixing & Finishing Up

Crossword Puzzle: Mixing & Finishing Up - Solution

Word Search: Mixing & Finishing Up - Solution

'Til we meet again...

End of course survey