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the most common question I get when it comes
to weaving on a loom is take a wild guess the most common
question I get is can I warp with fill
in the blank for instance can I warp with wire can I warp with ribbon can I
warp with material like I'm always being
asked what can I work with jwes if I am making projects on a bead weaving loom
and I always come back with well if it ain't moving it's fair
game so that kind of like leads to a wide VAR iety of materials that you can
use and so welcome to the channel I'm Juliana a lot of people call me jewels
and you're more than welcome to join in and call me that I'm the inventor of the
jewel loom beadloom right here very popular and when I refer
to the word warp w r p I'm talking about these guys
all right the warps go from the top of your loom to the bottom and then back up
again so we refer to it as the foundation of whatever you might be
making so whether it's a beaded bracelet um some fun and funky
earrings or a woven piece the warp threads are your foundation they're like
the basic of your story what's going to hold my story is it going to be
something really strong is it Whimsical is it
flexible is it sassy like real leather real leather
cord is really fun to warp with but there's a whole thing about that and I'm just so excited and honored to have you
here and a couple well gosh not even a couple of months ago but just a wee bit
ago I was at the two on gym show and my lovely precious
sweet gorgeous friend who is also an amazing jewelry designer came up to me
and we were so excited that we found each other and well I'll just tell you who it
is the beautiful amazing talented Deb floros is here with me
today talk but yet we're mat ing so we have you know in honor of you I wore the
funky earrings that I got inspired to make you're like you got like all these
colors and I'm like you know in my burgy so good job on us for matching yes
yes yeah hi you know it's um it is really I think there's two questions
that that are are quite common and the one being can I warp with this you know
what can I warp with and and it's and it's a lot and then the other one too of course which we'll H we'll have to play
with sometime is you know how how do I finish my piece right I would say those are the top two questions you
know how I and what am I warping with and I did that all the time and it was
really cute the way that you even presented it because you were like I have these boxes and they're full of
stuff and do you think and I was like we have to take this to the juwel Lim community
um to to educate them and let them know you know hey and and so my my thing
during this um time together is that when you pull out something and and talk
about whether or not we can bead with it or warp with it sorry I want to refer to some of the the Looms and their grids
and so if you're saying well Jules what is a grid I hardly know what a warp is
okay these are the grids right and so periodically while Deb is kind of showcasing some of her items I'm going
to swoop in with one of the Looms and talk about the grid and what would work
best so without further Ado my friend um what you got what you
got well so I you know I am still a beginner in the whole world of weaving
um I mean your looms um are what introduced me to the whole concept and I
was always envious of people that had these beautiful woven pieces and so I I
kind of started my journey with more of the like textile things like you know
and and like the like um this is sorry silk and this is like some
Chenille yarn and so I Associated that with like
hemp cord so my experience is with hemp cord but hemp cord on the wood looms not
on the blue looms okay so that's my that's my main kind of point of
reference but I I know from watching you know watching you and watching everybody
else that works with the Looms that um typically if you're working with the
blue loom you're work working with the the fire line or Wildfire or some
equivalent of that I do have a question though when it comes
to the you know the thread that we all you know associate with the blue looms
okay can can you use this on one of the wood looms oh gosh yeah yeah totally
100% yeah yeah so I 9.9 times out of 10
am using wildfire beeton's wildfire in one way shape or the other like if
they're not my warps I use them for my WS WFT TS and and basically you know let
me just say if somebody uses that word it also is your weave right so it's the
going back and forth but yeah so you can use the Wildfire
on any one of your looms that I manufacture with my name on it I mean
you can even if you wanted to use it on nay silver silk loom and yeah so yeah definitely
Wildfire is in my humble opinion the best and so I've been using it like for
Neons and and prior to that I the only reason I didn't use it because I didn't know about it so yeah most definitely
and I think for a little clarification with with that
okay so on your jewel loom on your original jewel loom and your baby Loom
the these are plastic looms these are flexible plastic not bendable I can't
say that enough and they have they have what I refer to as I'm just going to
come up a little closer the beading grid up here and they have these grooves
right so they're very durable they there the groove is it was made for
Wildfire okay so back in the day when we were just starting off we were using
Wildfire for our warps and our WS also known as the weaving part we were sewing
on clasps end of day right um the Grid on
the I'll just bring this big guy wait okay the Grid on
the large wisdom Warrior all right so let's just a lot of
wisdom hey girlfriend the book is in process um if you see those tiny tiny
tiny tiny little tiny grooves all right so those are the grooves on the wisdom
Warrior bead Loom line they're very tiny
and they're made out of wood they love Wildfire they love wildfire and they fit
in there just beautifully and they make exceptional warp
threads okay so you know would you necessarily
want to use the silver silk loom with the Wildfire you for your warps you can
but it was really designed to accommodate silver silk chain and so let
me just tell my people who don't know what that is this is silver silk chain this is our lovely friend uh n company
and he produces silver silk chain look how gorgeous I know you have some too
and correct me if I'm wrong but I believe this is the um oh that looks
like maybe pipe chain P I had it before we came on and I lost it so you know
these looms that have the bigger grooves were really intended to accommodate
thicker material and so yeah knock your socks off use
Wildfire on them it's okay but there's other looms that were kind of made for that but not a deal
breaker so right all that's why I asked because I associate that that one in
particular so that that was where I did I think I did this project okay on loom
and I think I did this one as well and I was think thinking you know in my
beginner brain like Oh The Wider the space The Wider the
material you know and because silver silk is pretty I mean pretty wide yeah
so I didn't think that I would ever go that path but I started to think about
well could you and is that the best thing I I probably still wouldn't do
that but it sounds like you could you can you can do it if you really want to and who knows what what it might you
know produce yeah and you know the way that I designed the
Looms like with the original jewel loom you know part of the patent you know are
the buttons right because it eliminated all of the waste in beating because when
you know instead of going around and around a loom you're tying off yeah so
when I'm designing these looms I'm thinking about well what is the what's going to happen on this Loom what's G to
be birthed what kind of a story is gonna want to tell and so we design it to
accommodate the nodding and the application and so you know you would
just have to you know you'd have to tie off on one of the teeth and then your Grove you
know you let's see this groove would probably accommodate to 11 o maybe three
so you're not you're not going to have like the same spacing but again it's doable I don't want you to feel like oh
I invested in this Loom and I can only do silver silk I want you to play around
to your point go ahead and try the Wildfire I think I think you can do it I know you can do it okay all right so
then along the same vein so a lot of people that use Wildfire or fire line
may use the too 1G product it's a
slightly different um manufacturer of a thread so seed beers use these
interchangeably but some people prefer a oneg so if someone had 1G could they use
oneg for the blue looms and or other looms yeah first of
all too girl forever love too can't get
enough a too um so um and the one is like you
know it's like it's delish right um I would absolutely you could absolutely
warp with it on the blue looms and then as mentioned before let me bring in the
smaller um wisdom Warrior because she's not so large um you know on those grids that
would be fine what I find with the oneg though so I love the Wildfire because
the beetle on Wildfire is strong it's
very strong and it's grippy it's grippy grippy such a great way to describe that
and and so when you're when you're making you know chunky
monkey gorgeous bracelets that have like a trem amount of Glass on them you want
that base with your seed beads to be really strong and sturdy
so I'm going to use WG mostly in my
weaving but I'm not going to put a big X over it for warping like you can
definitely do that um it might even be a nice baby jewel loom product because you
don't typically use as much as you would on you know yeah and it's just flowy
it's veryy is it's very smooth it's
Dancy yeah here's the thing that you have to remember about warps like if I show you
this bracelet right now you don't see the warps no so I would say 9.9 times out of
10 your warps seem they disappear like maybe on your wall hangings on your
fiber art you might get a little bit more of a glimpse of of your warps so um
superg is more superg one G is costly
right it is definitely more costly and um so I would just tend to use it for my
WS when I you know when I'm weaving in my be but you but the answer is yes you could use
it I've not used it on on like n's Loom or Eileen's Loom or the new rooted Loom
all those big grid looms I've not and I honestly I don't know that I'd make that
choice to do that yeah I probably wouldn't yeah I don't think so so Nyo I
would say this the same answer would probably be for like Nyo because it's kind of the the beadsmith equivalent of
oneg in in my humble opinion I started with Nao well actually I take that back
back in the day 30 some years ago with a lean um we were warping and we
everything with fishing line we were going to the we were using fishing tackle
line to to create with and then you know we had Nyo and so that's actually where
you know the two materials that I mostly was using like 30 some years ago in fact I wonder if this is fishing line H I'm
not 100% sure some of I'll have to find one of my bracelets because I know this one looks like it's the warps
are Nyo and this is like I don't know this could be 30 20 at least 25 years
old so nao's pretty like it's it's it's a strong it's a strong material but yeah
Wildfire hands down okay I am I always
think of fire line for seed beading work but I think Wildfire actually would be
my choice for the um the warping on the blue looms that would be my choice yeah
because it is so grippy yeah and they have that ultra fine now so you could play around with
the ultra fine to see like how you feel with that when you're doing like your looping work you know that's what I love
with the oneg or like the Nyo like it's it's just more it's a little more flexible but again I'm you know I'm such
a wildfire fan so yeah but yeah yeah we all have our our favorite things we do
we do let's let's go in a different direction because this is something so I
am a big um Mac girl okay and I love the
micro macra so I think I I we did this project um and this is all macade on and
we did it on aom and this is all that tiny waxed poly
kind of cing and um our friends at hemptique actually just introduced some
poly cting in very small small small small sizes okay but I've got you know
I've got this is um like a waxed multicolor cording yeah um I love this
stuff for Mac um but tell me like is this good for
warping and with what with what kinds of looms yeah so I mean that yeah hemptique
is hands down like I love them Clara's amazing and they're a
family-owned business and they're here in California uh closer to San Diego I believe and um and so their their
products that they have are sustainable and I love all of that I love all of
that so I feel with the plastic looms that if
I'm going to try something try it on the jewel loom or the baby jewel loom first
to see like you know how how it works um I don't have any questions as far as
like the hemptique product lines go um the 0.5 regular hemp cord it is a
beautiful match I'll bring in let me bring in the pocket Loom so the pocket moon loom that we
introduced in November of last year she's got the beading grid right and
then she has some bigger teeth so um like the5 mil cord hemp te hemp cord
would be would be great it loves that little Groove the one is a little bit
bigger yeah when you talk about those waxed
situations they're lovely yeah they're lovely I just am
wondering obviously all day like I mean the jewel loom is is suited for just
like so many things um I've not tried that wax on the wood I'm really careful
with my wood looms really careful because just because it'll fit in the groove I'm I'm always cautious like even
with the wire um we you know like if you did you know Laura Mena comes to mine
with her her gorgeous crochet I think I think she uses 28 gauge
maybe but I'm always concerned with the you know the bead grids you know and and
so I would always say like if it's artistic wire which is my favorite Wire by the way um I would say the thinner
the better so like a 28 a 30 even a 32 but the wax I would say I'm feeling
like no problem on the bigger grids yeah
agree I'm just not knowing right now whether or not it's going to produce any
type of weird sticky stuff in the bead Grid in the wood bead
grid yeah I feel like so this the hemp te the new
hemptique so they came out with I think three new sizes so I've used their
larger sizes I think I think this was done with
hemptique probably this one too yeah um and you know this when I saw this little
thin this is 45 MIM okay it tiny yeah and this isn't
waxy so like this is this is a wax yeah this is not so I feel like this would
actually be I think it'd be gorgeous on the wood Looms with the bead grid I
think that that would be very very interesting to warp with on the bead
grid on these on on the Looms that have them so all the wisdom Warrior wisdom
Warrior mini wisdom Warrior um the earring looms which are
Danielle's Danielle's like the co-parent yeah yes um the large wisdom Warrior the
small wisdom Warrior the micro and then the earring the pocket Loom has the beading
grid the original moon loom has a little bit her grid could be
considered a beading grid but it's a little bit a little bit different it's not as tight but I think that any of the
Looms that have this really tiny yeah I mean I'm just like glancing
over at at my big girl o and I'm just thinking you know that might really be
cool it could work yeah what is the product called it um so it is waxed but
I I say that when I compare the wax on this this is the less expensive I don't
even know the brand of this um this is you can see how shiny this is but um
this is um so hemp Teek waxed um waxed bonded and round thread
it's multi-purpose and nonf fraying that's my on that and I I can
pull out in a second there are a couple additional sizes that they released as
well and they're all sort of in this smaller vein yeah I like that poly versus hemp yeah but this feels this
does not feel waxy like it feels coated but it doesn't feel waxy yeah then I'm
all in I'm definitely all in and Carmen this car I will and Carmen Cruz says I'm
a beginner and I appreciate all this great information I have bought some hemp and other materials but was not
sure where and how to use it so thank you Carmen for for letting us know that
this is is good for you because that's why we're here um you know eileene um
hloom that I did for her she's got you know that similar Moon Goddess grid so I
bet she would love that as well for her um you know for her she does the spines to
her journal dies I know she's so crazy she's so so talent I bet she would
really love that so we'll have to make sure um by the way myself and eileene
and Ann from bellcraft we're all gonna be at the Chicago show in May for H&H I
don't know if you're going or not but anyone who's attending look for
bellcraft because we will be there I'm not going but I will be virtually um
representing Jesse James beads at the event doing a little bit of an
instruction with um something that they're sharing with the bellcraft folks so I'm excited about that okay right on
I love that that's so good so good so yeah so I'm all in okay all right then
here's some other products very similar products um beadon
belon yeah and then bead Smith s laon
yeah um both nylon cords I don't think
these I I don't think they're waxed I I don't see anything about wax but they're
you know they're a little bit bigger than um what we just looked at I'm
trying to see what the size is on the cording but I I know a lot of people
work with eslon for nodding and I've used it for um
Mac um some nodding too I would think this would work but not sure which um
Loom would be best for this kind of a product yeah I think that um I think
that those two because I'm almost 100% sure that years ago when I was on JTV
with the jewel loom that the eslon was an upsell and I'm almost sure I that
yeah so yeah I definitely again I all day long on the jewel looms the original
blue Jewel looms baby Loom no problem at all um I would say Eileen's Loom
absolutely I would say it depends on the size because again 0.5 hemp cord lays
into the beating grid on the wisdom Warrior l s beautifully 1 mm you you can work with
that but it sits on the grid okay it
sits yeah see this one yeah this is this
is 0. five this is hemp hemp cord and you can see that it it fits into the
groove so if I want to use I guess I don't have a 1 millimeter on the loom
anywhere um it'll it'll like sit on the grooves even on the doesn't Nestle in
necessarily right so you know you've got these little these little dips right you have the little
grooves and and so if the product won't like wildfire obviously lays down in
there beautifully 05 lays down in there beautifully but excuse me anything over that is
going to lay on top of the on top of the grooves does that um if it's laying does
that present any problems with like things shifting around or um you just
have to be more conscious of the fact that they're just laying but it's never
derailed me from from creating that way so for instance um
you know I've made a piece where where the warp threads were out of
denim yeah you just you just take your old Levis right you just take your old
Levis and then what you do is you're GNA cut
strips as long as you can go my little legs are are short so you're not gonna get you know you're not gonna have like
yards with my legs mine either yeah but you definitely
definitely warp with like a long and it just lays on there and so it does
present for a very creative experience because you're also like
trying to get your beads and but they're it's beautiful right when it's all done and so I'm thinking that shouldn't be
your first project on Al Loom I'm just just saying that probably should not be your very first attempt
Al they would get an award for something like that like some kind of an award
yeah and it and it yeah and you yeah what is what is Celia says are you sure
you're not running around trying to start a new trend with those yeah well let me just say I am on my way to my own
very pair of Daisy Dukes so I better get my
squats better start working out well I was also just thinking like I don't know
if you remembered my old company jewelcraft but we had this gorgeous beaded Fringe and I was just I have some
so I was thinking oh I could sew some on to here I'd be like quite the thing you
would yes yeah yeah those those will be my Vegas Daisy
Dukes Lord but yeah okay so I'm going to set the fabric
aside for a minute because I have I have so many questions related to fabric but stay on like cording and thread I love
this product for a lot of different things I'm sure a lot of people have it
the silk oh yeah yeah gri and silk has a
needle attach which you could cut off um it comes in so many sizes which I think
is confusing to people um but it's you know generally used for knotting pearls
y um I've used it for nodding any you know other beads I've used it for
macra yeah um but I've never used it on a loom and I thought gosh there's some lovely silk colors out there that would
be pretty yeah what about warping with the silk yeah I mean I absolutely I
would just go back to that same point of like you know because I I also look at
price point when I'm thinking about my warps yes no and so beeton's Wildfire
just being such an exceptional product at a great price um for what you're
getting and and you know that you're in the for the most case you're covering it up right so when you have that Silk
product it's so beautiful and I'm assuming it's a little bit higher of a price point um maybe not too bad I do
think they I think they make it are they making it here now or did they still make it overseas I don't
know sure but um I feel like it's one of those products that unless you're Pearl
knotting yeah it's kind of an like people don't know about it or they have some and they don't know what to do with
it because it's just been stuffed in a drawer and truth be told I have a lot of it that I've just you know accumulated
over the years I did Ed to KN with the very large larger sizes of it but like
some of this like the number three is super tiny I mean it's a nice tiny
little rad you know I'm thinking I'm thinking that that would be gorgeous
like for obviously the pearls and then like the cck glass or Swarovski Crystals so
like if I were doing a ring yeah I would you know warp with a
coordinating wildfire color if possible and then I would use that Silk with my
pearls and my crystals yeah and now I need to make
that ring because that sounds really pretty yeah we're getting all kinds of ideas
here we're about it I I like the idea even if I'm the only one knowing it but
if you're making jewelry for sale I think this would be a a good point it's like you're using
uh you know how can I say this like you don't drive around in a m in a Mercedes with
Volkswagen car seats right and there's nothing wrong with that if you
do there's AB I'm just trying to give you an analog analogy right so like if I'm making a
gorgeous ring and I'm using my top quality you know Japanese seed beads and
I'm using you know gorgeous pearls and swarovsky crystals yeah I want to make sure that
my warps and my wests are a material that's going to you know yeah
complement that whole that whole presentation natural
s look that that's jewel blue too so that oh my God that's why I pulled this
out so I have all colors I'm like oh my God this is this is Jewel that is to die
for that is to die for yeah yeah Carmen wants a tutorial on the on the uh on the
ring so we better write down all these things better get these ideas written down yeah but I think that you know that
whole line I absolutely on the original um blue looms the baby and the original
jewel loom and then um I think it makes sense with the wisdom Warrior looms
because they have the beating grids you could use it with the pocket Loom you could use it with Eileen's loom for sure
she might enjoy that um is she upside down yeah like I said her little grids
are so yeah if you had a bigger um I don't know like it's not a gauge but
like a bigger size of the silk yeah then that would probably be better in that
Loom or in the maybe even in the silver silk loom yeah or or yeah can you
imagine somehow warping that along with silver silk chain side by
side that would be to die for
that let see how that might look yeah now this is a smaller cord but I
mean I don't know I mean know you'd have to put it up there you know like maybe the silver silk is on the edges on the
far left and far right and then the silk is in the middle and you could even pre-
string the beads onto the silk and have them floating yeah so still show off the silk
and maybe maybe after after you put one bead on do like a little
macra I don't know yeah you could just like have more fun than humans are allowed to have with
that and if you use a like a clear crystal or a clear glass bead the color
of the thread yeah would go through yeah kind of fun I'm gonna definitely say
that that whole silness that whole world would needs to be married to you
know like the same Quality Glass you know Pearl Sor offski
check glasses even Gorge so something on the same level to
make it tell a really complete story with with the same
yeah all right I'm going to possibly take up a mission to use some of my silk
yes yeah for sure okay um I have other questions so
we've talked about hemp yeah um and I I love hemptique I've got a ton of
hemptique but I wanted to show this because I'm sure some people don't you know don't know about hemptique or maybe
have access to it as easily and maybe they're going to the craft store and they're seeing this kind of a product on
a card yeah you know you get a bunch of colors sometimes together they also I
think card the naturals um in different sizes so some
of their products have different sizes and then some of them just have different colors yeah um I'm not trying
to say what's better here but I'm assuming that this cord is also very
usable under all the other situations that like a hump Teek would be right yeah and I've seen those and I've had to
pick them up on you know cases where I just had to run to Michaels or Hobby Lobby and you know grab something so
yeah I think it I think you know it all comes down to like is it important to
you do you want to be working with a sustainable um products or you know like
so yeah I think you can go I think you can go either way but I'm always going to be behind you know the Mom and Pops
yeah and it's yeah it's trust I mean I feel like it's a it's a quality it's a
better quality oh it's so I've used I've used both but I prefer the the hemptique
product yeah if I can if I can get my hands on it so yeah yeah and this is
antique on my earrings and so I'm you know I'm not super allergy prone but I
would want something close to my face that I knew where it had been so I do
know the way him te you know produces their product so yeah well you know if
if people this would be a good practice like if you have this practice with it
right yes and I get a bunch of hemptique like load up on the hemptique after
after you practice and hermy has a great comment she's saying that the her the HTI is softer right and stronger and and
it's true because I've noticed that what's at the mass level um is a little bit more rough but if you you know in my
one video where I talk about which Loom to start with i because like if you've
not loomed and you are just like whoa you know I'm not ready to to invest in you
know the large wisdom Warrior right now but man this looks like a fun time I say
start off with you know the baby jewel loom because the price point is right under
$10 pick yourself up some of that cord at you know one of the mass shops or
your local independent whatever and you're not going to waste you're not going to have a waste you can you can
warp with the cord and you can and weave with it to you know get your
get your bearings yeah get your bearings just to try it out and you're not like in to trying something new you're not in
a hundred bucks right you're in 20 bucks and sometimes when you make your way
around these craft stores you can go and you'll find these like clearance things
and so you might find something like this on clearance and you just put that in your little bag and carry it on out
and use it to practice and yeah and then you can get really good and then you Buy
hemptique in all the colors and all the sizes yeah and yeah and yeah to okay in
some some yeah um I'll let you answer this question before I go says I haven't used
my goddess yet how much should I use on it can you show the
Hem hemp again oh how much how much hempty cord would
you or or cord in general I mean it just depends on what you are using what
you're making I mean you could end up using many yards to go all the way
across um 17
inches 17 inches long eight over I mean
have I I know I've done it before and I'm sure I wrote it down somewhere you know it's probably gonna be several
yards worth of cord I can I could take some yarn later
Carmen and like just faux warp my my loom real quick and I can let you know I
if that's your question okay this is a weird one um but
I used this for my weaving so my wefting um this is um like a twine like
a really cute twine oh that's so funny you have that okay it's like a it's like a tiny yarn kind
of and um I did a I did a really funky bracelet in fact I'm not even sure where
that bracelet is I thought I I didn't bring that in tonight but I used the a black this is purple and white but I
used a black and white and I used it on hemp but I like my opinion is this
probably wouldn't make a good Warp but you tell me do you think it could be a
war so it's really funny and this is the honest truth okay
so and we did not talk we did not from my lips to God's ears we did not talk we
did not we did not no so uh back during Christmas time I was
standing in line at TJ Maxx and this was you know how people pick stuff up and
then they decide they don't want it impulse purchases it's in the impulse area like get me through this line this
and this and this don't look and I was like oh my gosh that would be like so
amazing and it was like I don't know $7.99 and I got it with the intention of
thinking that I was going to make coasters oh that would be cool
I warped with it and then I we I used it as my weaving for the booooom on the
boooooom and I took it off and the flipping thing fell apart it twisted because it's
twisty it's twisty so I was gonna talk about this so
I don't know if that's the same experience on that smaller one but boy
this did not go well for me and I that is fantastic like that makes my
heart sing I did I did I think I had a it was not this exact same one but I had
a black and white I wish I knew where that piece was and so I I warped with
hemp and then I did I did this and then I got to about the center of the
bracelet and then I had this like silvery thread stuff and I did a little in the
center and then I started again with the black and white so it's cool but I found
it hard from a tension standpoint to get it right because it's kind of it's just
kind of Loosey Goosey yeah you know it's like air it it's there's nothing to
yours is like air and this one is like that's like a brick yeah like a brick
and and it's twisting and it's really great for wrapping gifts but um I would
just say I don't know what I would say because I got so bummed that I didn't go
back and try to warp again and then use something else as the Ws yeah because
that might have been stinking cool and so I do have some red sorry ribbon and I
might be brave enough to warp again with this and then go back and use the the
weaving with the Sor ribbon and see what happens but um you know sometimes these
That's How come I always say if it ain't moving it's fair game if you don't have to put it down um
so sometimes I think that this is a perfect example of where I was like why not like it's staring at me it's a great
price it's really pretty I think I want to do this and I had a fail but I didn't
go back and try again so think for Giggles I will try again and
let everybody know how know how it goes because it really is a beautiful and and
in this case the warp would
present in the project especially on a coaster and it would be gorgeous so I
will try it again I'll try it again I'll take one for the team try it again okay well that is very cool because that's
huge and it's really cool yeah um that kind of makes me think so like I when
I've been collecting all this stuff because I I I'm embarrassed to show and I'm not going to the package the bags of
stuff that I have um I have a lot of stuff I've been collecting and what what my thought process is is well if I can't
warp with it I can weft with it and I can accent with it and I can do all
these fun things and so um so I have a lot of stuff and I'm thinking to myself
well if I can't workp with it I can definitely use it you know I've seen all
of your pieces that have all of the fabric and the beads and the fun accent
so so my thought was this and probably several other things like it are
probably not good for warping but this is a piece of fairy silk and it's been
WRA yeah it's been wrapped up so it needs a little training but it's a black
piece of fair F silk fairy silk is so lovely it can be a plain color it can be
multicolored and it's got the you know the thread on the it's sewn on the
outside along both edges and it goes like down to a point where it's thin at
the that's typically how a fairy silk would work um this is actually not silk this
like a faux fairy silk but I do have fairy silk too and this is a fun
material to to work with for you know designing jewelry but I don't know that you could
actually warp with it uh does it have an opening can you put anything in it or is
it no no okay so yeah I wouldn't waste it I what it's fabulous so I would want
to show it off and so you know like when I used yes you know these pieces on here
you know like this is a really nice SAR ribbon like some silk sar's are better
than others and this is higher end more delicious one but what I'm seeing with
that is do you remember the other night um or in the video on the rooted
Loom where I took the fibers and then I pinched them so that
they would you know they would be fluffy and sticking out I could see that with the fairy
silk I wish I add some because that would just be really pretty yeah reallyy
use it for your your WS so while you're sharing that um how do you feel about
yarn and there's so many kinds of yarn like some yarn that's super chunky and
some yarn that's really thin then the yarn that we used for this project I did
for you that has all little squiggly things hanging out like yeah there's so
many different kinds of yarn but what is the general guidance on Yarn yeah I mean
the general guidance is that if there's an estate cell sign in your neighborhood
you go you go because chances are somebody's been stashing yarn their
whole life um yeah I mean you the yarn
is like perfect for warping because you know that's what this is you know
the this is um yarn that I warped the rooted Loom
with and I'll make sure that that video is tagged in here somewhere so this is
just you know basic yarn nothing fancy or smancy but yeah all day long I would
have I would just have a bag which I do full of yarn you know and and so in the next
breath what I would say is that I tend to use that basic plain yarn in different yarn yarn
yarny yarn old fashioned good oldfashioned yarn before they made it fanc State sell yeah and then you know
like I I've told the story so many times about you know this was at aoui place in
ohigh you know the ske and when I walked in it was like almost 50 bucks for that
thing and it's gorgeous though I mean it's like
and so I'm going to use that for my WS I'm not going to hide it and it costs a lot but you could yeah
just get a yarn I'm thinking like you get the plain yarn and you do your warps
but then you get all the fun yarn and the Beautiful Rich yarn and the fancy
yarn and do all of their weaving with that and you've got this beautiful soft
piece this was this was like a Chenille yarn that I had
expensive no this was yard sale yarn
like it was in a bag of like just stuff wow and I used um some hemp so just some
brown hemp and then I um I added some lace this is like um like stretchy lace
in there yeah that's so cool and this is so soft and cozy and so like that's what
I'm thinking but I didn't really think that you could warp with it so now I'm super excited ah
Danielle we need t-shirts
t-shirts okay so the next thing you you touched on this a little bit um I've
done I've done weaving with it and that's sorry silk and I am a sorry girl
to like to my core yeah totally so but can you warp with
it oh yeah these are warp this is this is the warp what
happens what happens you have to be really careful when you're warping with it because it can it's it can be frail
and so then it will it will uh tear so when I'm warping with the denim or the
Sor ribbon any of that type of texture I'll leave the metal rod into the jewel
loom so that yeah because sometimes it'll stretch like I even say that with a leather cord sometimes that leather
cord will stretch and if you take your Rod out you'll be like flat lines you know on your loom so um yeah
definitely definitely can use in fact one of the projects in the book is
warping warping with sorry ribbon using it also in some of the and adding some
beads in so yeah and even so the sory ribbon is so precious and it's it's
so um non like what's the word evasive like it's not harsh or anything yeah you
can even like lay that on your on your wisdom Warrior looms and I would be fine with that and definitely on all your big
teeth girls you know like your your um your big grids that would be fantastic
and I think be easy it would be easier on those big teeth for a beginner um
exactly yeah yeah I also um I have um
some sorry yarn have you seen that where people make sorry into yarn yes and
thear waste it I would not want to waste it as a warp I would want to use it for
weaving but um that's a beautiful like bougie yarn to use yeah yeah oh my gosh
yes um you mentioned leather yeah a few times scares me but I
know but I know that it's similar to like so a lot of people have made those
wrap bracelets I'm thinking it's very similar to The Wrap bracelets with leather tell
me about how you can workp with um yeah I mean with the with the leather again
if you're using it as a warp on the original jewel loom I would leave the rod in the loom because it can stretch
if it's faux leather it doesn't it doesn't stretch
like real Lea yeah and the other thing when you're warping with real leather is
that you have to be so careful because again it's another product that will I
mean it's fragile so it could break could tear yeah yeah so we nicked or
something g i I want to show you I should have
grabbed this but let me see if I can find it really quick one of our very very
first creative Soul
projects of course it's hiding right now you can never find it when you want
it right my gosh it was the red Joan
knows which one I'm talking about maybe she knows where it
is knows you know these boxes were um organized at one time of course I don't
have it let me see I don't think that's
that's not Le this might be leather um but yeah you have
to you definitely have to be careful when you're warping you know with the leather and
so this one o I love that one I remember that one this yeah I love these darn
beads so much so beautiful God I love that you just have to be careful when you're going back and forth and you're
warping warping with the weather it's weather with yeah definitely with the weather that's hard to say weather yeah
um but and and even on the original jewel loom so I'm a big fan of one
millimeter everything right like I love 1 mm hemp cord I love one one and a half
two millimeter leather so those sizes are
going to sit on top of the grooves they're going to sit on top of the jewel loom baby Loom grooves they're going to
sit on top of the wisdom Warrior looms they're going to Nestle into the silver
silk loom um the Ruden Loom but I like I like
faux leather as well because yeah you know it's cheaper and looks really good Ian
yeah and and some people you know they don't want the real thing so faux faux leather is absolutely fine and you can
usually find it for you know a great thing again I yeah
so yeah it's um I don't know here's an example of of warping with wire it's
kind of hard to tell but these are all wired warps in this project wire like
like craft wire artistic wire that's on my list too yeah artistic Wire yeah see we think
alike um warping with wire on the original JW Loom is like hands down one
of my most favorite things because it's ridiculous how cool it is
it's just Yeah you mentioned certain gauges you prefer um what would you
prefer to warp with what's your preferred right so um so to just let
everyone know the lower the number in in wire so like 10 gauge
is what my mom used way back in the day to make all those human forms like it is
so heavy 10 gauge 12 gauge it's wire super super thick right so the lower the
number the thicker the wire the higher the number the thinner so like our Laura who does crocheting with wire I think
she's in that 28 gauge to 32 SO2 right here at 22 um so I you know I
would say 24 okay6 are the middle of the road if
you feel Brave you can try um
22 I I got a lot of like like 30 like that I haven't used for anything yeah I
would just make sure that it's not going to like break yeah it should if it's artistic wire that's for sure but it but
that's thin and that's what like needle tatting people use and crocheters use
that so I would say 24 and I I just kind of don't want you
putting wire on your wood looms okay I
won't but it feels like if you have that small gauge wire that you could do it on
the the blue loom very easily it's right in those grooves this was made on the
blue loom this was made on the BL so you know if it's a 28 gauge you can I mean
and this is 28 what I have't I mean 26 and it's super super fine so like you
know maybe maybe I would get Brave and try it on the pocket Loom I don't know I just
think that artistic wire and the original looms are best okay because not
for nothing also it's kind of like the project that you're making too like you really have to think about why you're
using the certain materials on your project yeah yeah know why am I going
you going you know this was this was one of the creative Soul projects and I wanted to just show like
this really cool sturdy you know funky piece like a
framed yeah yeah and there's another piece in the book that was with
wire so I just feel best if it's on the blue Jewel looms versus the wood
Loom okay all right I have a few more but I got to slide over because I I
forgot one brand so let me grab okay I got two hi I got two kinds of beading
wire so Beeton beading wire or like a soft Flex this is a a colorful you know
this is a metallic what about beading wire right so I um have played around
with it a little bit again it's a little bit more high-end yeah I think it has its purpose
with that said I know that Trisha from um you know Trisha our dear friend
Trisha she actually used the beading wire in a project and knocked it out of
the park like it was really really really pretty and the cool thing with that is that you can then take it up a
notch and use crimping techniques like pre- stringing the
beads crimping and then you have like a floating bracelet right so it's a whole
different level of but if I'm not mistaken the price point on
that yeah but you could do like so all of the companies do more of an econ so
the econoflex from soft flex and then you could use a seven strand for from
beon so maybe that's your you know sort of test run is using something that's a
little more economical that is still a beating wire and sometimes you find some
random weird brand like at a garage sale and you could play around with that too
that same that same yard sale where you found the yarn you might find um some
cheap cheap beating wire too you never know yeah yeah know there's all kinds of
opportunities for savings that's for sure if you dig deep enough all right um
I'm I'm Inna generalized because I've got so everybody knows what stretch cord is you know like your stretch magic and
then I've got this like this funky colorful stretch cord this was also from a craft store really stretchy so I could
see this as fun like accent this kind of thing accenting you know more um weaving
but have you ever warped with stretch cord like a stretchy cord so you know
who first played around with that is Christian from from JTV when she was on
Julie yeah yeah so she she's a she's genius hand genius yes jewelry genius
um and so I think it's an interesting idea for sure to use it
um again you're kind of trying to work with a material that's
stretchy and you're always trying to make your warps with the most tautness
like you know to play a little guitar counter to use a stretchy cord yeah it's
kind of counterintuitive for sure so I'm not taking it off the table by any means
and um it it it's not non-abrasive so like you could definitely play around
with it on your wood looms because it's not GNA you know probably not g to hurt anything but I think
it's it just you know I'm not against it not putting X through it I'm not
putting an X through it no okay two more one we kind one we've
kind of talked about but what about embroidery thread like I I used that as a little
bit of an accent on a piece that I made it was a fail I didn't warp with it but
I I wondered because it's also very I mean it's very much Loosey Goosey like our twine kind of very Loosey Goosey and
it's um it's multiple fibers and they don't necessarily always St together
really well yeah especially if it's not a high quality embroidery thread so just
just wondering just curious yeah I mean the first thing that comes to my mind is like to play around with it on the tiny
looms right like on the pocket Loom or the earring Loom because it could be interesting on the earring Loom again
you're not going to see it because yeah you know but if you have some and you're trying to do something on a budget it's
probably cost you know it's it's a good cost I'm
personally not going to choose to warp with it because I think it's too too flimsy but would I grab some if I needed
something to teach with or to do my my WS with on a smaller project probably I
mean you yeah there's a thousand million colors um so that's another bonus for
the part of it okay last one we touched on it fabric so
we talked about denim oh yeah I have this vision and I did buy all of the
things and I I I'm still gonna do it so I don't want to share it but but it's
fabric that um I feel like I need to wash a lot to get it kind of loosened up
because it's out of the package was somewhat stiff so Fabric in general like I I know
I need to probably cut some strips of my fabric for
sure um what does that look like I mean do you have a project that you've done
in the past that you can point to like a a class or anything that you did I do
and again let me let me just peek over here
I mean we can always we can always share it later but I I just that is a that is a curiosity to me I'm so I know I can
like I can weave it but to weest it is I'm so curi or to um warp it I'm so
curious about so well that piece is not coming um forward but of course the
piece I was looking for so this yeah this was warping with the leather and um
you know was a great class because it really challenged the the creative Soul Community to you know learn learn a new
technique and and and be successful so this is with you know the denim but it's
woven you know so I W this is H cord but um yeah darn it I I know in the jeel
loom Inspirations book there's a project with that again I would keep the rod in
the loom I would get it around the back button as best as I could I would
probably even pull out my blue painters tape oh and tape it down to the back you
know so like you know just visualize instead of him cord all Denim and it's
really Big And Chunky so you're going to have to like use some painters tape and then just warp with it like you normally
would yeah or the silver silk loom I would think might be good for something
like that or is that then if you wanted to make the strips even thinner or to
Bunch them up and you know oh my gosh there's so many possibilities because you can SE into it like you know like I
sewed in all of these gorgeous beads into this bracelet yeah that's just so
it's just so Bohemian and fabulous and there's something about the fabric and
the use of different kinds of fabrics so I have I have one more and this one's for Joan um
H panny hose panny hose yeah who did she said that I mentioned that I didn't I
don't remember saying you could weave with pios oh my God I that is so funny I mean
I think as long you know i' obviously I would I don't know they would run I wouldn't they run I would think so but I
guess like you stretch it like maybe if you just stretch it really
thin I don't know I mean it would be it would kind of be like the stretch cord concept like could you get it to be
taught enough that it would be a found a good foundation
yeah but that I had to ask I had to ask yeah for sure no I know and she's she's
actually checked out already because she's like I gotta go and eight sorry sorry I'm keep all my
questions to party early God bless her for showing up this because she's on the
East Coast timeline so um I think I asked everything I was thinking about
like I know there's probably more that that you know folks have have thought of
themselves but those are just some of the things that I was thinking about and now I'm actually inspired like some of
these things I wasn't thinking I should try but maybe a few of them I might try
I I really think what it comes back to is if you are a beginner and you've not
even made anything yet you know because this is a lot of information right so
again I'll direct you back to the small entry level baby jewel loom you get a
pack of of of you know cord or something from your local your local uh shop and you
practice warping and weaving and you just get that down and then
I think that the next step from there is that you're you know you're warping your original jewel loom with hemp cord
you're doing the bead work a single hole bead and you're making one of the most
basic bracelet projects because then it's really easy to add you know a
button a wood button and call it a day from there I think that you will
intuitively grow into all of these other different ideas and really at the end of
the day I feel like what you choose for your warps is like what what are you doing if you're just
making if you're making jewelry like Jewels I'm pumping it out for a boutique yeah craft fair right or
I'm making gifts like you know there's just going to be some standard warping
procedures the beetle on Wildfire is my base and I'm weaving stuff in or I'm
using hemp cord um by hemptique to for my warps and I'm you know weaving in all
of my gorgeous ribbons um yeah but then when you get into the other looms like
the rooted Loom the sun Weavers and you start doing and and even
the silver silk loom when you start storytelling when you start weaving
because you're G to tell a story then I think so many of the things that
we talked about like come into play because the bigger looms like the rooted Loom just lends itself to all of this
fun stuff so yeah but again I'm just
going to go back to if it ain't moving it's fair game like because I have this visual of like could I
somehow this is crazy could I somehow get grass like the
plant you know the big grassy plants yeah yeah
yeah I know like I think I like blacked out for a
minute like that is an awesome idea yeah so I dare dare you I dare you to do that I
dare you yeah yeah so that that would be a very interesting base and I'm not
exactly sure how to preserve it I think I think definitely using it for my WS my
weave you know my weaving part could be interesting but um yeah there are people
that make baskets woven baskets out of that stuff so so why not it has to be in
a basket shape I that's why I'm just like every time I see a piece of a a
grass plant I'm like oh keep walking you're yanking it out of a
neighbor's yard home yeah don't go to the plant store and start cutting grass but big
trimmers I I think that there's always a place for our you know very streamlined
basic jewelry making we're trying to accomplish whatever our brand our
collection might look like and I use those words whether I'm making it for as
as a hobbyist or professional like it's your style so you know and the and all Jew looms
kind of take you into a different expression yeah yeah and it just it all
everything together the loom the warps and whatever you're weaving with all put
together is your story there it's such a big part of your story such a big part
everything that we do so for Me weaving is all about story telling even you know
this bracelet has a story right you know this bracelet reminds me of when I was
able to empower all of my students in the creative Soul you know monthly
subscription to say you know what we're gonna go wide and we're gonna warp with leather
and you're gonna have practice and this is not the project where you're gonna be like H you know and and everyone was
successful I don't believe I had to send out any more leather to anyone um you
know and just everything is an expression that I do like one way or the other something about wherever I'm at in
that moment whatever I'm Desiring and that's what I feel like weaving is all about yeah it really is
and I think when I when I sit down um I have to be ready for the story like I
have to be ready to put the story together sometimes if you want to make something
fast sometimes you can't tell a story fast so um perfect for that yeah so you
know um but I I think it's um it's so exciting to think about all the
possibilities of what you can do and maybe today somebody's gonna say you
know what I'm gonna try the twine or I'm gonna try the you know whatever that
they they saw us talk about I mean we go from hatbands to Funky
earrings to Super high-end materials
to making bougie lamps
lamps I love that I love that yeah it's like yeah it's just like a big story
everything and to your point again sometimes we're just making a bracelet whatever but we're pouring our heart and
soul into it and it's you know there's moments in every piece where you just
chill out yeah I like to leave a little bit of me in everything I make so and
with weing you do it all comes from my heart anyways so like these you you
invest you I think you invest more in this kind of technique because it's just
it's a very Zen thing too it's just so great move that that material back and
forth It's ful it's like it's super slow
Zumba yeah it is and get so many comments about that like how it just helps people to chill out yeah yeah I'm
all about it I'm all I'm down all right so we're getting a lot of
really positive comments and I love that and I love that this is so helpful and
if there's something else that comes to mind um that you know you want answers
to uh please ask us let us know I know we talked about it about a lot of
different things and I would just say try it like it's not going to hurt anything you know just be I say that and
in the next breath I'm just always going to say but you know caution on your wood looms to make sure that you're not using
like you know Towing chain that might not be good yeah Towing
that's not that it wouldn't be good yeah be good so but dab I appreciate you so
much and I'm so grateful that from that moment that we found each other what Hall what Hall were we in uh I think we
were I know we were at the I think it was the gem mall I think it was the gem Mall tent yeah at GLW and I only went
over there because I was trying to find Annie from Jewel tool me too both and we found her and then we
found each other and so it all worked out and I'm so grateful for you and so
anything that we should tell everybody where to find you coming up like what's going on this weekend um you can find me Monday
morning at um artbeads.com live I have my Monday show on artbeads so every
Monday morning I do a little designing and we do a little shopping while we design um I've got got a couple things
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Monday morning that's where I'm definitely going to be but you can find me on all the all the socials and um and
hopefully we can come up with another something to um share with folks I'm I'm
totally in I'm all down for it we're definitely gonna do this again so thank you so much we all we appreciate you we
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that's so cool Lori thinks that she might have bought the same funky uh yarn so that's fun oh my gosh I would love to
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