VIVA Gallery
Carole Austin; fellow weaver and I are guest artists along with Nick Smolen, a blacksmith, this month at VIVA Gallery. Our opening reception was this past Thursday; what has become their monthly first Thursday gathering [...]
Deflected doubleweave
From Kindred ThreadsFrom Kindred ThreadsFrom Kindred ThreadsNot too sure about this project at first. I mostly just wanted to play with the weave structure. Something about doubleweave fascinates me. But the whole felting process has [...]
playing…not producing
From Kindred ThreadsFrom Kindred ThreadsFrom Kindred ThreadsInstead of just finishing off the tail end of my linen purse warp in a timely fashion; I decided to use my stashed; handspun in Nepal nettle yarn, to [...]
gatherings
From Kindred ThreadsOur 2nd Monday gathering this month was at my house and despite a miserable snow/rainy day we stayed warm with laughter and my somewhat too spicy butternut squash and pear soup. Thanks to [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]