My first creation

The first thing I made on my loom was space invaders. I already owned a t-shirt which had space invaders on it. I used the t-shirt as a starting point. I printed out some online graph paper and mapped out my design.

The looming part went very quickly and was really enjoyable. I fell in love with Miyuki Delica beads and how they fit together so perfectly.

Once I had finished stringing all the beads on to the loom I was faced with the dilema of how to get the bead weaving off the loom. I searched you tube for some videos on how to do this and found that there are only a couple of options.

I went for the use some tape to hold the warp strings together then cut off with scissors method. Although this is the fastest way to get the beads off the loom it leaves another problem, how to hide the tape on the back of the weaving. I did this by hand sewing a piece of ribbon to the back, then finished the ribbon with some velcro to make a kind of cuff.





Here is the finished piece.

I gave it to Kieron and he was really pleased with it.

All in all space invaders turned out to be good subject matter as their pixelated blocks are easily reproduced in beads. I'm still not sure about taping and cutting the warp threads this way because it means you have to cover the back. I really want to see if I can work out a different way to finish my loom work.