Weaving

[gallery link="file"] It is hard to believe that paperwork/paperwork and more paperwork would be such an integral part of the weaving life, but other then a crazy weekend trip with my sister and old friends (from middle school) to all our

[gallery link="file"] I have been waiting to get this monster off the loom before posting, and FINALLY I cut it off today. I like it a lot except for the fringe. I liked the idea of a shocking fabric behind the

I got word today about my 16 (first wave) submissions for Master Weavers. I kept trying to prepare for the worst, but it is really hard to get ready to be depressed. Anyway, it was very good news! 15 out

I spent Saturday morning at the last NEWS (New England Weavers Seminar) trustees meeting before the 2011 conference on July 14th-17th. Many hard-working guild members were in attendance, putting it all together. There is a juried gallery show, a juried

[gallery link="file" columns="2"] Somehow, I am thinking about, writing about and trying to make BUTTONHOLES all the time. Dr. Freud??? Now that I am off the couch, I wanted to post a couple of picture of the technique I mentioned in a

[gallery link="file"] I just got a gift from the fairy godparents of weaving in Western Ma - Barbara and John Hurley!! John made it, and it is a deluxe Rya jig. You use it for wrapping the pile for the rya

[gallery link="file" columns="2"] I just finished packing up my first wave of submissions for the Master Weaver certificate program at Hill Institute. I have a few tips for anyone who wants to pursue this in the future (more tips once I

[gallery link="file"] A few additions to ongoing projects. The bug bag is the boundweave fashioned into a knitting bag. The pink is an additional towel in dukagang for the apron and the brown is a towel in brooks bouquet. The buttonhole

I am very excited about the guild program we had this week. A friend and fellow Hill weaving student Ann Squire presented a program on how to photograph handwovens. I learned so much. Ann gave us a quick review of

Update: The old posts have been resurrected on this new site! Okay, I think I have a semi-solution. When you choose blog from the site menu you will see a screaming boy (my wee son, but also a symbol of how I feel about

Well, I tried, but I couldn’t do it. I liked Tumblr in some ways, but the milieu was a little youthful, the formatting a little arduous and even though it broke my heart with its MAJOR fail, I really like

As a result of one technical problem/mystery after another, I have decided to move my blog to tumblr. Please come for a visit at: http://plainweave.tumblr.com/ I plan on putting what is left of my blog archive in some accessible form (once