Loom out of a Picture Frame

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

• Wood picture frame size of your choice
• Yarn, color(s) of your choice
• One spool of cotton quilting thread
• Fiskars® nail holder
• Box of 1x18 wire nails
• Hammer
• Scissors
• Black Sharpie® marker
• Metal straight edge (ruler)

DIRECTIONS:

1. Remove the glass, paper and backing board from the picture frame.
2. On the front opening side of the picture frame using your metal ruler and black Sharpie marker, making marks every 1/4" inch across the top and bottom of the opening.
3. On the marks at the top and bottom on the front of the frame you will hammer in the wire nails leaving them standing up about 3/4" above the frame. Try to keep them straight.
4. Starting at the bottom left of the nails, tie a knot around the first nail with the quilting thread. Do not cut the thread but leave it on the spool. Loop it over the top left nail and then the next adjacent nail and then come back to the bottom nail to the second nail. Wrap around it and the adjacent nail and then go back up to the top. Continue this until you have gone completely across the opening to make your loom. Tie off the quilting thread around the last nail. Snip off the thread with your scissors.
5. To create the weaving, start at the bottom of your finished loom on either end and tie off your first yarn on the back of the strings. Weave your yarn in and out of the loom. To find different patterns and technique, look on the Internet under looms and weaving yarn patterns.
6. As you create new rows, you can tuck the ends pieces in behind on the loom. Every time you make a new row, you will have to tie off at the beginning of the yarn and end when you get to the end of the strand or you can weave it in on the backside of the piece.

JOANN HACKS:

• It works best to change the pattern every few rows. You can also weave vertically as well to create different shapes.