Summer gathering at Carole’s
Our 2nd Monday weavers group met at my friend Carole's lovely home. Her gardens are a delight to explore and it is obvious why weaving is not a priority during the summer gardening months. It made me want to go home and give my plants a little pep talk. I picked a bad day to forget my good camera and [...]
playing with color
So I have decided to take a little break from my black and white obsession to play with color in the form of dyeing some tencel warps for some twill scarves. Although I do a lot of dyeing of protein fibers with acid dyes and have that process down pat, I am leery of dyeing cellulose and rayon fibers. It [...]
women who inspire
There are women in everyone's lives who inspire them. In my small fiber focused world there are women like Bonnie, who hosted our last 2nd Monday fiber group. I don't really know Bonnie all that well, I don't know her life's tragedies (and we all have them) or the people she has in her life, or her hopes and dreams. [...]
wool into spring
In my warped (hey, that's a good pun) way of thinking I am weaving and knitting everything I can that is wooly and warm; in the hopes that it will trick spring temperatures into returning to normal. It has been cold and dreary and if it keeps up I will be wearing the black and white slipped stitch cowl that [...]
spring gathering at my house
A spring gathering of weavers and fiber friends is always a joyful occasion, and Aprils gathering at my house was a good indication of how ready we are to let winter go. Not quite "sit on the porch" warm but at least I wasn't too worried about dealing with snow on my steep driveway. Everyone was feeling as creative in [...]
gathering at Anna’s
This was a day of great food and lots of inspiration at Anna and Greg's. It took me awhile to make it past all of Greg's pottery calling to me from their front porch. Greg is a potter and Anna has a sewing studio and is an excellent knitwear designer.Once inside their art and pottery filled home it didn't take [...]