December 2009

[gallery link="file" orderby="title"] Today was spent almost entirely beading and twisting fringes on Sheepy Wool 1. Shocking. I really have to quantify the time spent on each aspect of each piece. I’m not sure I can afford to offer 8 hours

Yesterday or the day before I mentioned two links on Flickr to the work of weavers that utterly sends me. Out of the thousands of posted photos by textile artists/weavers from around the world these two happened to both be

I know I publicly stated that I could only attend to holiday preparations AFTER I completed one of the three alpaca blankets. And I made it sound like I was going to - in true grit fashion - return to

[gallery link="file" order="DESC"] I finished and mailed the Kid Mohair - Baby Alpaca scarf today - it’s Baby Baby because it is all baby animal fiber - very soft. I think there is a little silk in there as well -

[gallery link="file" order="DESC"] I got up early to work on the mohair scarf before the whippersnappers were up. Because today is the TREE DAY. I tried to convince my wonderful husband to take the boys and pick the tree out themselves

[gallery link="file" order="DESC" columns="4"] I delivered one scarf, finished weaving one scarf (still to be washed, beaded and fringed) and got another scarf on the loom today (sort of - there may be some surprises to come). The new scarf on

[gallery link="file" order="DESC" orderby="title"] I somehow thought I could finish dressing the loom for the alpaca throw and weave a couple of hours on the bamboo scarf and wind the warp for the kid mohair scarf (in the back of my

I am becoming alarmingly intolerant of the how life keeps elbowing its way into my weaving time. Today I had to buy groceries, prepare for a meeting at my son’s school , go to the meeting and COOK FOOD. All

[gallery link="file" order="DESC"] We had a snow day today! My class was cancelled. Cal’s school was closed, but poor Hardy called at 7:30 am to tell us about his tragic fate - he must slog through snow drifts to class -

[gallery link="file" order="DESC" columns="2" orderby="title"] Today I finished the fringes on the purple deflected double weave scarf (1) - wound the warp, dressed the loom and started weaving deflected double weave scarf (2) - partially finished the warp remaining from Sock

[gallery link="file" orderby="title"] Even though I have - let’s see - SEVEN commissions at the moment (Yippee! Yikes! Tremble . . .) I had to see Socks II to its smelly conclusion. I still have to do something with the warp

[gallery link="file" order="DESC"] In addition to the vast amount of weaving knowledge. know-how and experience exchanged at our study group led by Anita Thompson, we get to bask in the sumptuous surroundings of Barbara Hurley’s pied-a- terre in proximity to an