Welcome to Stash Weaving Success!

Navigating the course

Meet your teachers

Coming Attractions (aka, Course Syllabus)

Course Calendar

Live Demo Lesson Sundays

Live Q&A Wednesdays

How to use the Discussion Boards

How to search videos

Where's the Facebook Group?

BONUS: Weaving Project Calculator

Welcome to Chapter One: Plan for Success!

Picking a project

Using yarns

Deciding on drafts

Choosing Colors

Your Mission: Picking a Palette

Sampling: When and why to do it

What did you learn? Plan for Success

Your SWS Project

SWS Project Specs

SWS Project Downloads

July 19 Live Demo Lesson

July 22 Live Q&A

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?

Watch Out: Here be dragons!

Project mission: Let's Talk Yarn

What did you learn? Let's Talk Yarn

July 26 Live Demo Lesson

July 29 Live Q&A

Welcome to Chapter Three: Let's Talk Color!

The Three Elements: Yarns, Draft, and Patterning

Introduction to the Color Editor

Yarns: Color Mixing

Playing with Color Mixing

Yarns: Pattern Clarity

Drafts

Playing with Drafts

What did you learn? Let's Talk Color

Project Mission: 4-shaft Drafts

Project Mission: 8-shaft Drafts

Aug 2 Live Demo Lesson

Aug 5 Live Q&A

Welcome to Chapter Four: Seductive Stripes!

Stripe width

Stripes and their neighbors

Balancing stripes

Arranging stripes: Repeating, Rhythmic, and Random Stripes

Playing with Rhythm and Balance

Varying sett across the warp

The Denting Calculator

What did you learn? Seductive Stripes, Part I

Project mission

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

Aug 9 Live Demo Lesson

Aug 12 Live Q&A

Welcome to Chapter 5: Seductive Stripes, Part 2!

Warp stripes, weft stripes, or both?

Designing with weft stripes

Playing with treadling and color stripes

Designing with warp AND weft stripes

Playing with warp 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

Aug 16 Live Demo Lesson

Aug 19 Live Q&A

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

Project mission: Dress for Success

Aug 23 Live Demo Lesson

Aug 26 Live Q&A

Welcome to Chapter 7: 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

What did you learn? When the Beater Hits the Fell

Project Mission: When the Beater Hits the Fell

Aug 30 Live Demo Lesson

Sep 2 Live Q&A

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

Playing with 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

Sep 6 Demo Lesson

Sep 9 Q&A

Welcome to Chapter 9: Finishing Up

Dry Finishing

Wet finishing

Project mission: Finishing Up

'Til we meet again...

End of course survey