The new loom came with two stick shuttles. All well and good until you want to use three different colors for your weft design and you don’t want to wait for the order to come from Webs and you don’t want to drive an hour to a shop in Skippack, PA.

So I am walking the dogs this morning and coming back home, and I see a stack of my yard signs from my failed 2016 commissioner campaign. Maybe one of those might just work….

So I brought one in and laid it on the kitchen island. I took a real wooden shuttle, laid it down, drew around it, and cut a plastic shuttle with the kitchen utility scissors.

I notched the center (next time make the notches deeper) and rounded the sharp ends. I wound the red yarn around and tried it out. This home-made shuttle worked just fine. Maybe I don’t need to order those wood shuttles after all.