Phyllis Scarbrough, of Raindance Baskets, is the newest member of our fiber family. With her 20 plus years as a basketmaker and teacher she is just what we need to get our classes back up on the website and will be an inspiration for me to get back into teaching mode. It is a joy [...]
Well I have to say it, Carole and I have gone out into the world and presented ourselves as weavers. Spending the weekend hawking our wares (at the Driftless Art Fair) and actually selling some of it validates some of the time that we have spent in the studio lately. I'll tell you, that a [...]
Sheep and Wool Festival, originally uploaded by kindred threads Well let me tell you it's a big scary fiber world out there. I'm glad to be home from the fair; to my family and relatively sane fiber friends. I made the mistake of standing between 2 women in a bidding war at the silent auction. [...]
Etsy Front Page 8/18/08 lizzywatson, originally uploaded by Etsy Front Pagers. Woo hoo!! This makes me famous in my "computer geek wannabe" mind. Thank you lizzywatson
I remember being very intimidated by dyeing a few years ago; mostly because reading Deb Menzs' book Color in Spinning made everything look so scientific and precise. After taking a class at Sievers, with Deb, and declaring in front of all, my fear of dyeing; I quickly found that splashing color on roving and spinning [...]
This color combination is calling out to me to be a scarf. Do you hear colors calling to you?My friend Nan, brought her scarf woven by Randall Darwall to visit me. This is some major inspiration. He plays with color in a way that makes it sing. My pictures do not do it justice... hopefully [...]
What a treat to see this rug coming off the loom. It is truly a beauty. This is where having a good fabric stash comes in handy; since this was done in fairly fine rags instead of the more traditional wool. It is a swedish weave using three shafts (in this case), called Krokbragd...hopefully spelled [...]
I would like to introduce you to our final, original member of our studio group. Jan Rasikas is a beginning weaver with a loom that is old enough to have seen lots more weaving than all of us in our group, combined. I wish that it could share some of its weaving memories, although the [...]
Stained glass has been a passion of mine for about 30 years and I occasionally let go of the fiber obsession long enough to go into my studio at home and melt some glass. These are a few of the earrings I have fused in my kiln with dichroic glass and they will be going [...]
Introducing you to 2 more members of our studio.Carol Gohlke has been a founding member of our studio group and holds us together with her support in many ways. She is a reluctant fiber artist in that when the knitting shop was in full swing, she swore no one would be able to teach her [...]
