Weave, Weave, Weave me the sunshine....

  Remember that song from Puff the Magic Dragon?  I'm dating myself, but that is what comes to mind when I hear the word "weave."
      Yesterday I spent at least seven hours experimenting with woven stitches.  I. Can't. Stop.  It is amazing how versatile they are. Basically you are creating a mini loom on your fabric, setting up the warp and then weaving in the weft- fascinating.  I came up with all kinds of things, but the possibilities are endless. Now the cool part will be applying the different ideas in an actual project.
   I've used an old tablecloth I got on a trip to Sweden (❤ Swedish textiles!) to practice my stitches on, and it is getting quite messy.  But that is the point.

    I wish, however, that I had watched Susan Spargo's  embroidery class before I got started, because I would have learned quite a few things that I ended up figuring out on my own.