Showing posts with label fibre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fibre. Show all posts
06 December 2014

Shawl of Sharing

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Some time back, a group of fibre artists I belong to banded together to support one of our members who is dealing with cancer.  Of course we...
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31 March 2014

The Cold Never Bothered Me Anyway

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If you haven’t yet seen Frozen , I highly recommend it. Even if you haven’t got kids. It’s got a lot of thought-provoking things to say: m...
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28 March 2014

Another hat

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I finished the embellishment on the "Sunday go-to-meetin'" hat today ... A few more leaves and a pretty yellow button. The...
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27 March 2014

Wet Felting

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You know, I actually like wet felting. It’s a lot of physical work (well, it can be, depending how big the thing is you are felting and how ...
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20 February 2014

Boots are finished and on the feet they belong to!

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Didn’t take much scrubbing at all to get the final fitting done … and with the top cuffs turned down they look fantastic! They also fit ...
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02 February 2014

Barter: hand work for hand work

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A friend of mine has been experimenting with processing hides in her barn – she has room to do such stinky, smelly work, she has access to h...
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12 December 2013

When the brain is on overdrive

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Lately, my brain is on overdrive: scattered, frazzled, hard to focus on anything, trouble remembering things, the usual. After effects from ...
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04 September 2013

Working

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I love my work. Hand dyed yarns which will be packaged with my knitting patterns as shawl or sock kits. Gradient dyed alpaca/wool lo...
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18 August 2013

Fair Weekend 2014

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We are home from the Fair! Tired, of course, but we had fun. I help out at the Bench Show, taking notes for one of the judges and stapli...
11 August 2013

Frazzlehead’s Handspun Sock Recipe

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I spun up three 100 gram Frazzlebatts. I plyed them together and made two big balls of 3 ply yarn. Sparkly, purple and red and blue yarn. T...
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21 July 2013

Spinning at the Garden

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Today I was at the local Garden - it’s an old homestead that was made into a historical site: the old house is still there, and the guy who ...
19 July 2013

Ecoprinting, Canadian style

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I’ve been working on some test ecoprints, as there is a workshop coming up in August at the Pegg Garden and I need to have some examples to ...
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All plyed.

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I couldn’t stand it any longer, so I plyed it all up. Starting at the top left we have 2 balls of a very soft Frazzlebatt (there was som...
17 July 2013

Tour de Fleece: GOAL REACHED!

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Yes, I have spun a whole kilogram of Frazzlebatts. First, proof: 1059 grams. That’s just a wee smidgen over the one kilogram of Frazzl...
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16 July 2013

More than halfway to the TdF goal!

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My goal for the Tour de Fleece is to spin a kilogram of Frazzlebatts … as of today, I have completed 600 g! Here are today’s accomplishmen...
12 July 2013

Good Things: Tour de Fleece

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It’s always important to balance the hard discussions with some easier ones, so let’s talk about the Tour de Fleece! After all, fibre arts a...
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10 July 2013

Post Fibre Week

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Once home from Fibre Week, there was the unpacking to do – which necessitated reorganizing the upstairs fibre studio to make room for a perm...
16 June 2013

Ontario, Day 7

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Today was the final day of the Handspinning Seminar, which included Wheelwright’s keynote speech and demonstration of how to turn things on ...
15 June 2013

Ontario, Day 6

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I should be sleeping, but the adrenaline rush is still on full blast so I might as well post today’s update while the valerian/hops blend ki...
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