Threading the Loom:
There are two methods to begin threading. One way is to secure your yarn with a knot at the beginning and ending of your weaving. The second method holds the yarn in a slip knot at the beginning, until the yarn tail can be woven into the side of the piece when finished.

Figure 1: Hold the Weavette® so that # 1 is at the lower left corner and the red arrow is pointing away from you. [Hint: Hold the Weavette® in your left hand, winding yarn onto the loom with your right hand. Use your left thumb and forefinger to keep the yarn in place around the pins.] Hold 2" of yarn with your thumb at the arrow and draw yarn straight across loom to #3 on the far side. Pass the yarn to the right around the first two pins and return to the side nearest you, bringing the yarn between the second and third pins. Tie the yarns together with a knot, drawing a close fit next to the pins, and creating even tension in this first loop of yarn. When threading the Weavette®, allow the yarn to find its natural slack; that is, never pull it tightly around the pins.

Pass yarn to the right around the next two pins and return to the far side, placing yarn between the first and second pins of the next set of pins. Pass yarn to the right around two pins and return to the near side, placing yarn between the first and second pins again. Repeat these steps across the loom until you have reached #2 on the lower right hand side of the loom. [Hint: Try to keep your threading under even, modest tension using your thumb and forefinger on each side of the loom to keep the yarns in place.]



Figure 2: Hold the yarn with your thumb and turn the Weavette® to the right (clockwise). The red arrow at #2 is now at the lower left side of the loom, pointing away from you. [Hint: The black arrow with a red "W" will be used later to begin the first row of weaving.] Pass the yarn around the first two pins, draw it across the loom placing the yarn between the first and second pins, then to the right around two pins.

Return yarn to the near side, placing yarn between the first and second pins, then to the right around two pins. Draw yarn across to the far side again and repeat these steps until you have reached the red arrow at #3 on the far right side of the loom.


Figure 3: Turn Weavette® back to the original position (with Arrow #1 at lower left corner) and, following the direction of red arrow #3, bring yarn around the two corner pins and draw it across loom to #1. On the near side, place the yarn between the first and second pins, then to the right around two pins. Draw yarn across the loom to the open space (between the pin sets), to the right around two pins, placing yarn between second and third pins. Draw yarn across the loom to the near side (open space), to the right and around two more pins. Continue these steps until the Weavette® is filled and you've reached Arrow #2 with your yarn at the lower right hand corner.

[Hint: You should see all three layers of yarn, with the threads even and parallel.]

Note: Do NOT cut, tie-off or knot yarn.

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