Tee Shirt to Table: Weft-Faced Placemats

About Tee Shirt to Table: Weft-Faced Placemats

Learning to weave or reviewing basic skills is even more fun when you can make an exciting project. These placemats are a wonderful way to turn old tee shirts into beautiful, functional home accessories. During the first session, we will discuss tips for overcoming any challenges in warping the loom. Deborah will discuss putting on a wide warp, managing a long warp, and tips for even tension. And reviewing the basics is a good thing if you've been away from your loom for a while. You'll learn how to efficiently cut the tee shirts to make yarn-like strips to weave with. In the second session, we will weave the placemats and Deborah will demonstrate how to cut the two placemats apart and finish the ends. You'll practice weaving even edges, adding new wefts, changing colors, and learn many tips for good weaving. Although the placemats are made on a 15" loom, you can make hot pads if your loom is more narrow.

The capacity for this class is 22 students.

Class Materials Needed

• Rigid heddle loom with at least 15" weaving width
• Warping peg, threading/sley hook, 10 dent reed, clamps
• Shuttles, scissors, sewing thread and needle
• Warp yarn: 450 yards 8/2 cotton
• 3 - 5 tee shirts in coordinating colors. The tee shirts should have matching fiber content (100% cotton or 50% cotton, 50% polyester) so that they all shrink at the same rate. Tee shirts without side seams are preferable, but not mandatory.

Pre-class Homework

• Pre-wash the tee shirts in hot water and dry in a hot dryer.
• Print handout.
• Warp your loom according to the instructions in the handout through the bottom of page 6. If you have any questions about this, please message or email me.