I can't think of a better way to spend a "when will it ever be spring" day than surrounded by my fiber friends. Â I think everyone felt the same as we had a larger than average group, brave an iffy driving day after a snowfall overnight. Â Lots of us have treacherous driveways and I know [...]
With our lovely fall colors comes a plethora of artist studio tours to tempt me from getting back to weaving. This year hubby and I did the Fresh Art Tour in west central WI. I had so much fun talking with two weavers in Alma, WI that I almost didn't make it to the actual [...]
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 [...]
Since moving out of the studio space that a group of us has shared, I have been setting up 2 of my looms at home and trying to organize all that fiber in a much smaller space. My 54" Glimakra will be in storage but just about everything else is stuffed into a few areas [...]
Food and fiber; always a great combo at our 2nd monday gathering of fiber fanatics. This lovely shawl is one of Barbs recent finished projects. Carole's blueberry tarts were a rather elegant addition to a somewhat raucous group. Thanks also to Joanne for her yummy cheesecakeJoanne shared these lovely items that she has recently finished. [...]
Carole and I recently spent a lovely morning at the home and weaving studio of Elin and her husband Bob. Elin's studio is lovely and I can picture her many productive hours in such an inviting environment.These are sample skeins of natural dyes. Elin teaches classes through the Driftless Folk School and at her home [...]
Our cooperative fibers arts studio has been here in our small town of Viroqua, WI for the last couple of years. And although some members have come and gone, we have continued to enjoy the camaraderie and inspiration that our shared studio space provides. We have greatly enjoyed opening our studio on the 2nd monday [...]
Ladies do lunch..thanks BarbSometimes you just have to leave house and studio and be someplace else, even though it is still winter at least it is somebody else's winter. Thank god that Barb invited us over for lunch cause I am personally in danger of imploding if I don't see something new and inspiring. And [...]
My favorite rag balls. They are silk and the most incredible color. I am saving these for just the right project.Sweet vintage fabrics used in the last rug of the three. Fun to think of the childrens dresses or shirts that these are from, and the weaver who painstakingly prepared the rags into these balls. [...]
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 [...]
