Spring Tote
Spring Tote Kit
Designed by Jodi Ybarra for Easy Weaving with Little Looms Spring 2025.
Celebrate the arrival of spring with a beautifully crafted tote in soft, inviting pastels. Perfectly sized for a trip to the farmer's market or for carrying your favorite book or crafting essentials to your next class.
Weave structure: plain weave
Yarns: Aurora Earth 8/2 Cottons
Equipment needed: Rigid heddle loom; 11” weaving width, 12 or 12.5 dent reed, 1 pick-up stick, 2 shuttles.
Other supplies needed: sewing thread, lightweight fusible interfacing (optional).
Finished size: 30" bag fabric. Finished bag size 9" x 13.5 with a 16" strap length.
Instructions needed: Easy Weaving with Little Looms Spring 2025, pages 37, 48-49.
This kit includes all the yarns, lining fabric, and cotton canvas straps needed to weave and assemble this tote. You can add lightweight fusible interfacing if you want a sturdier tote. The pattern can be found in the magazine noted above. You will need to purchase this magazine if you don't already own a copy.
Photos by Matt Graves courtesy of Long Thread Media
Customer Reviews
I loved weaving the SpringTote! It was such fun to weave with the pickup stick and the resulting pattern with the 6 colors was beautiful. I did have a broken warp thread (I think due to my catching one thread with the reed hook of the 2 ply yarn) but given how busy the pattern was, it was not evident. While I think the tote is very cute, I wish it was a bit wider. After shrinkage the width was only 8 inches which is pretty narrow for a tote bag.
I just finished weaving this tote bag and I had so much fun doing it. This is going to be a Mother's Day gift for my mom who is 88 years old. I am a fairly new weaver and the instructions were very easy to follow. I had enough warp on my loom to also make a small runner using the same pattern. This was also my first time using a pick up stick. Thank you for putting these wonderful kits together.