October 2011

[gallery link="file" columns="2"] Just days before Halloween I am really spooked. Not by the painted and mustachioed mannequin head mounted on my dress form (youngest son’s WIP costume), but by the LOADS of snow currently falling and weighing down all my

[gallery link="file" columns="2"] I just sent the sample for “Dotty” to my niece. It is Summer & Winter on the same threading as the Bee Blanket and the Little Houses Blanket. The tie up/treadling is simplified into the ”brick” style of

[gallery link="file"] I know it is a bad pun, but since entering the realm of the “middle-aged woman” and trying to control my temper/ature, insomnia, etc. by, as Sandra Tsing Loh puts it, having NO FUN - meaning no alcohol, no

[gallery link="file"] After recovering from Sheepy Wool - i.e. digging out from “the kids have been home alone all weekend.” And just so no one panics, by “kids” I mean my 21-year-old daughter and my 11-year-old son. They were responsible, as

[gallery link="file"] I spent the weekend with my good friend and dyer extraordinaire, Gail Callahan, at the NY State Sheep & Wool Fair (called Sheepy Wool by my kids when they were little). We had a wonderful weekend - dramatic, windy

[gallery link="file"] More Ms and Os - only this one is Merriment & Optimism instead of Misery & Obstacles. I used the same Strickler draft as inspiration, but this time I turned it and changed the threading quite a bit, etc.

[gallery link="file"] A sample of turned Ms & Os and an example of trying to kill 2 birds with one stone and somehow eating crow. My plan was to use singles linen for my Ms & Os requirement and have enough

[gallery link="file" columns="2"] Today was a very interesting day. I was invited by my good friend Ute Bargmann to the Springfield Weavers’ Guild for a presentation on Maori weaving and a presentation on Pick-up by Ute herself (also known as the

[gallery link="file"] I just got this off the loom after many months - I haven’t washed it yet. It is a sampler blanket experimenting with a large variety of Summer & Winter tie-ups. I used a 2/8 wool warp in a

[gallery link="file"] As part of a wonderful birthday weekend with my sister in New York, I was able to see a small but spectacular exhibit called “The Andean Tunic: 400 BCE to 1800 CE” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It