Apple Days
From Blogger PicturesFrom Blogger PicturesFrom Blogger PicturesFrom Kindred ThreadsFall is apple season in south western Wisconsin and the Gays Mills orchards are a feast for the senses.
Linen bag
Seems like impressive yards of material to make just one of these strip purses. This one contains pearl cotton, bamboo and linen. It sold at the Driftless Fair before I had a chance to admire it much. Good thing that I have one more on the loom.I do so enjoy working with linen. It has such a crisp elegance; yet [...]
Driftless Art Fair
This last weekend Carole and I shared a booth at the Driftless Area Art Fair. It was a beautiful fall weekend full of art, music and friends. Once we got set up we were relieved to finally be done with the frantic preparations that seem to consume the weeks before a fair. Once again I vow to build my inventory [...]
WI Sheep and Wool festival
In a never ending quest to drive myself insane I am in two fairs on back to back weekends. The first was in Jefferson Wi and involved lots of dyeing, spinning and melting of dichroic glass for buttons, often into the wee hours of the night. I managed to get away from the booth long enough to take a peek [...]
Antique pendulum spinning wheel restored
I purchased this wheel at an auction thinking that it was a walking wheel missing a lot of parts, which is probably what the auctioneers thought, and why it was so inexpensive. I originally thought that it would look cool in the window when we were just opening the yarn shop about 5 years ago. I briefly thought about setting [...]
a day in dell
Thank you Barb for having our wandering weavers out to your beautiful valley home and to see what you have been up to in your studio; pictured below. Your labels crack me up and I know you made the right decision when you were trying to decide between learning to play the piano or how to weave.Barb's husband Harry is [...]