I got this little loom after my grandmother died. It came to me exactly like this, with 3 completed squares, and one started. I also got a beautiful blanket she made with yellow and rust wool from woven squares. it has a little bit of moth damage, so no one else wanted it.
I’ve pulled this out a few times, but because I know she strung the loom, I haven’t wanted to take it off and start fresh. I am very sentimental when it comes to my grandmother. I looked up some instructions online today and tried to make a start of finishing her piece. The yarn she used is a fine-gauge wool, and I found some embroidery yarn that matches pretty closely both in gauge and color. After a few rows, I realized something was not working. I need to do some more studying on the technique and give it a go another day. Or maybe it is just meant to remain a treasured WIP.
Know what, I would mount it as it is in a box frame, treasure it as your grandmother left it. A lovely momento.
Oh! What a nice idea!
Usually I’d say your grandma would want you to use the little loom but I’m with nanacathy2 on this one! It would be so perfect in a shadowbox frame!
Such a hard decision. I need to decide if this would be one more thing (albeit a treasured thing) or if I would ever really make something from it.
This is a lovely treasure, whatever you decide to do with it. It honours your grandmother’s memory to use it. In your place I would consider what would she would have approved of. My own grandmother was a hard worker as many of her generation had to be and I imagine she would have liked the idea of me using items she had left behind, as indeed I do.
My grandmother used EVERYTHING. She came of age in the depression. It is a hard balance now, wanting to preserve what she left, but knowing she would want it to be used.
Oh I got one of those from my Husband’s great grandmother. I think you have the directions there in the bottom of the box. I made my Daughter a doll blanket with it. I should get that thing out again.
The directions are a bit tattered, but they are there. I was just having trouble following them on that day. Do you need a copy of the directions? I could scan them for you.
No, I have a copy too. The tatteredness just adds character