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Over a year ago I took a workshop with Su Butler called “You Did That on Four Shafts?”. Su’s an inspiring teacher with a wealth of experience. The workshop covered surface design and some dying techniques. One technique she taught us was woven shibori. We used a natural colored thin thread to weave plain cloth… Continue reading Woven Shibori Experiments

After the Blazing Shuttles workshop, I purchased yarn from Kathrin Weber. It came in the form of a lovely painted warp called Summer Daze. Warp is the yarn I put on the loom to set it up for weaving. Setting up the loom is the most technically tricky part of weaving and can take hours.… Continue reading Blazing Shuttles, Summer Daze

Off the Loom     The fabric from the Blazing Shuttles workshop is off the loom and in my hands. It took longer than I had planned, but that’s because it’s summer and I love to play outside. When humidity or showers forced me back to the studio, the sunny colors of the warp on my loom… Continue reading Blazing Shuttles Workshop, Part II

We weavers spend a lot of time alone in our studios. This weekend, twelve of us got together to learn from Kathrin Weber of Blazing Shuttles. She brought her beautiful hand-dyed warps and taught us how to use them to their full advantage. We each brought a loom already set up with a short warp. All we needed to… Continue reading Blazing Shuttles Workshop

I love playing with color. It’s like painting but I use different colored threads instead of paints. My shelves are full of cones of 8/2 Tencel from WEBS. The yarns are my paint and the loom is my palette. Usually I know what the results will be when I grab a couple of colors to put… Continue reading Color Play

It’s that time of year when the days become cooler. Leaving the house in the cool morning air is a bit easier with  a little something extra around your neck. I’ve been working on the loom to fashion these scarves and now all I have left are the finishing touches. I love sitting in the evenings twisting the… Continue reading SCARVES, SCARVES, SCARVES

Hello sunshine. Hello noisy birds. Hello open windows. I think I have woken up after a long winter’s nap. The winter wasn’t even that hard, but I missed the longer days. While house renovations and visits to parents have kept me from weaving as much, I’ve been teaching a lot. This winter I taught a… Continue reading Spring Has Sprung!!!

Wow, it was a busy weekend at the Fall Fiber Festival. I came as a vendor for my 2nd year after helping a friend for 3 years. The Fall Fiber Festival (hereafter called FFF) is held at Montpelier, James Madison’s home near Orange, Virginia, every year on the first weekend of October. In addition to fiber-ish activities and… Continue reading Fall Has Arrived

Hubby and I returned home this weekend from a wonderful vacation in Maine. What surprises me most this time is how refreshed and renewed I still feel, even after a few days of reentry. One day, Bill indulged in a nap in the car while I wandered through Halcyon Yarn in Bath. The family is used to me… Continue reading Home Again Home Again

I love finding buried treasure in my studio. Yesterday I went on a cleaning spree and came across stuff I brought home from my last trip to John C. Campbell Folk School. This past JanuaryI went down to take  a class from Kathrin Weber, owner of Blazing Shuttles. (Yep, I dumped all the stuff in a corner of… Continue reading Buried Treasure