{"id":71211,"date":"2021-01-28T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designpoolpatterns.com\/luise-strombergs-plain-weave-challenge\/"},"modified":"2023-09-25T17:55:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T17:55:12","slug":"luise-strombergs-plain-weave-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designpoolpatterns.com\/luise-strombergs-plain-weave-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Luise Stromberg’s Plain Weave Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\u201cI have to find a light somewhere,\u201d thought Luise Stromberg as spring turned to summer in 2020. Like most of us, Luise was spending most of her time home and was searching for a creative spark to get her through the dark time we were all experiencing. So, she turned to a passion of hers, textiles, and started a quarantine project<\/a> she named the Plain Weave Challenge<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Throughout her 30+ year career in commercial textiles, she moved further away from looms and focused more on people and management. She felt disconnected from the materials and processes she loved about textiles. In a time of uncertainty, she wanted to feel the joy again of making something with her hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For Luise, the plain weave challenge is about experimenting with materials. Her goal is inspiration and material experimentation and not creating functional textiles or end products. \u201cIt\u2019s all about the process and the journey.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n With shopping more difficult due to the pandemic, Luise wondered what she could make with what she had around her. She looked around her space and saw she had unused Bristol Board and used it to make a small loom, about 2.5\u201d square. An avid knitter, Luise had lots of yarn, much of which was small bits leftover from previous projects. With the loom made, she chose a yarn, warped her little loom, and started weaving.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHow did she begin the project?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n