The first step (after collecting sticks from the woods that is) in making a garden loom is to use twine to tie the sticks together into a frame. Casey used knots he learned from being a boy scout. 
Here he is tying the last one together. 
After the loom was together we dug two holes in the ground and put the loom in. I then wrapped brown yarn around the sticks.
I used blue yarn to weave in the sky while K searched for leaves and grass to weave in the bottom.
For a finishing touch we wove in flowers from the garden. I've been wanting to make a garden loom for a long time. I keep seeing them on other people's pages and have been thinking how beautiful they are. I love the idea of keeping it out all year and adding/ changing it through the seasons. We collected our sticks on a walk through the woods a week ago and spent Saturday morning putting it all together.
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ahh! Just breathtaking!!
I've been wanting to do that for some time...can I come visit your garden to save me the work?! Beautiful!
xo maureen
MMMMM I am loving it!!! project time! project time!!
I absolutely love this! Can you please make me one?
I love this idea. We do wild weaving, but not a team effort like this. I have got to add this to my to-do list, oh, and actually do it. Bookmarked. Thank you for sharing.
beautiful :)
What a wonderfully fantastic idea !!
Brilliant! And beautiful.... I am sooooo yeeeeees going to do this in spring!
Beautiful!
oh a wonderful idea and I hope i remember it in spring here! it would be amazing!
Magnificent!!!!! So impressed! :)
Dear Seasonal Gnome,
I'm the weaving editor for Handwoven magazine and I'm wondering if you would like to submit your garden loom as a project/article for the May/June 2016 issue of Handwoven. Please email me: jackson.sb295@yahoo.com
Thank you,
Sarah H. Jackson
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