Beginner Class June 2013 Special Event

Beginner Class June 2013 Special event

Cluny—Yes you can

The class dates and times are:

Thursday the 13th regular times

(3/8:30 Eastern, 2/7:30 Central, 1/6:30 Mountain, noon/5:30 Pacific)

Saturday the 8 th times (noon Eastern , 11 Central, 10 Mountain and 9 Pacific)

Equipment/items you will need:

Ø Size 10 crochet thread. You select the color. I have a pattern to try after you can do a cluny. Any color will work.

Ø 1 shuttle or tatting needle

Ø Scissors to cut plastic and scissors to cut thread.

Ø The form shown below copied and enlarged/decreased as necessary to be 6” X 4.25” at largest or slightly smaller if your hand is smaller or you are using a plastic lid. Plastic that can be cut to make the form. (A sheet of quilter’s template—part of a sheet is fine—, OR 1 gallon clean plastic milk bottle side—must be smooth—not shaped, OR a 6” diameter{minimum} plastic lid, OR a lightweight plastic cutting board such as those from a ‘dollar’ store, OR a 6” X 4 ¼” cardboard rectangle OR a sheet of plastic canvas. Any of the options are workable you do not need them all.

Ø Sharpie permanent type marker for identifying the slits.

Directions for the clever cluny loom developed by Lorraine E. Wolak:

1. Put the letters as indicated on the form—for righties the upper point should be on the left and for lefties the upper point should be on the right.

2. You can cut the slits. We will be using only slits A, B, C, D, E, and G. “F” can be used to do a 4 weave cluny but at this time we will just be doing a 3 weave cluny. H is just a spot you need to mark it is not something to cut.

3. How to use the cluny loom will be presented in the class. It can be tricky but you can do it.

4. Before class please wind about a yard of thread onto your shuttle; do not cut from the ball.

Start with a R: 5-5-5-5 close the ring. Do not cut ball thread from the ring nor the shuttle or needle. Bring this to class. It does not matter ifs you use a shuttle or needle to tat.

See below for the basic outline of the form. For right handed forms the upper point should be on the left…or left handed forms the upper point should be on the right. Page 2 has them larger.

Or you can also take a piece of plastic canvas and make a loom out of that or even a square of cardboard. Enlarge the picture as necessary. The exact size is not as important as making it a size that works for you. I find the 6” tall one works for my hands. I have small hands….adjust for your comfort.

The following plastic canvas cluny loom was developed by Sonya Loyd and is used with her

permission.

She uses the 2 unlettered slits (see the larger pic on the next page with the letters) to hold the thread while using the loom. The lower one on the left would be equivalent to the ‘G’ on my plastic cluny loom. She brings the thread up from behind then down thru the upper slit. She finds it is easier to keep the thread out of the way using this style. I have tried it and personally would make a ‘G’ slit as I have used on the plastic clever cluny loom developed by Lorraine E. Wolak in the 1990’s and shared freely with tatters.

Sonya Loyd’s plastic canvas cluny loom:

A E B F

D C

“E” would = G I don’t have the “I” on mine at all. I can see how it would be handy tho

Cluney Loom Loyd

Need: Approximately 5 inch by 2 ½ inch plastic canvas

Bottom: Cut out the fifth square from the both sides two squares deep. “A” & “D”

Cut the fifth square from the right two squares deep. “F”

Top: Working from the left:

Cut the top 3 squares in t and five squares deep. “B”

Leave one square, cutting the fifth square in two squares deep. “G”

Leave one square. Cut five squares deep. “C”

From the right cut the fourth square, two squares deep. “H”

Right side: Cut the fifth square from the top and from the bottom two squares deep each. “E” & “I”

For the star shaped loom please see: http://www.georgiaseitz.com/2003/patclunyloom.html I have not found the larger star shapes only the 3” (7.62 cm) size ones and found their small size to be a problem when using a shuttle but I believe they would work using a needle. I am still trying to find the larger star shapes to experiment. I believe they would work well. With the smaller star it was hard to use the shuttle to weave the threads but I think it would work for needle tatters.

For those with very nimble fingers using the hand alone also works. See: http://home.netcom.com/~ntrop/cluny/instruct.htm for shuttle and http://home.netcom.com/~ntrop/cluny/instructneedle.htm for needle

Pattern list and the one for the class will come at the class.