Lately I am a little stuck in black and white...hope to find some color soon.cotolin towels woven in 8 harness twill with 2 shuttlesbamboo shawlMolly loving this first big snowstormminus 20 degrees when the girls went to school yesterday. Looks like winter might be here.Great book for inspiration
Cutting off a finished scarf before finishing the whole warp, is quick and easy with this technique. Make a two stick heading after you have finished the first scarf by weaving one inch of plain weave or as close as you can get; insert 2 sticks into the next 2 sheds and weave at least [...]
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 [...]
As usual our 2nd Monday gathering was a mixture of fiber , good food, laughter and world problem solving. It was great to see Joanne; and her yummy rhubarb bars almost didn't last long enough for a picture.Kathy of Riverweave Studio, brought in one of her cat friends. More can be found at her shop [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This lovely scarf has a rich ethnic look and I hope to do lots more in this style. The supplementary warp definately slowed down the weaving, but is worth the extra effort. A supplementary warp means that when I wound the warp I had the ribbons hanging off the back of the loom, so they [...]
