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.
When things like this happen and we find ourselves with two wefts in the same shed (top of turquoise square), we need to learn to fix our sheds.
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.
You can sign up for the mini-course by clicking the button below.
The video below demonstrates what I’m describing in the mini-course handout. If you're getting the blog via email, you can watch the video on YouTube HERE.
Take the Fixing your Sheds workshop starting March 30
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 March and April of 2024 and you can reserve your spot by going to the information page here: https://rebeccamezoff.com/shedding-workshop.
I only run this course once a year, so now is your chance to have a lot of community support and interactions with fellow students and Rebecca around this issue that all tapestry weavers need to learn to deal with.
*This is an updated blog post from April 14, 2023. So if you feel like you’ve seen it before and you read my blog regularly, it is possible you saw it HERE.