I am sure I am not alone in owning a box full of random yarn as such…

Bursting with bin ends of beautiful colours and scraps from my knitting phase, I keep the box around for when the need to finger-knit strikes or I need to darn a jumper (yes, I do that).

But inspired by my recent obsession with Maryanne Moodie, I thought I would give weaving a wall-hanging a try.

But what of a loom, you ask? I could not in good faith buy yet another piece of equipment only to use it once or twice, so my improvisation came in the form of our clothes drying rack.

I played around with loads of different techniques – weaving at different intervals and using a comb to tighten the weave.

until I came up with this.

I threaded it onto a wood dowel, edged and tied it off with loose yarn and while Maryanne Moodie has no reason to loose sleep over the potential competition, I am super proud of my little experiment.

And it will not end here. just sayin’.