Random thoughts of a fiber enthusiast – mostly fiber related, sometimes coherent.
Wednesday * February 8th 2012
Jul23
Here’s the view from my spinning wheel. Needless to say, I’ve been a little distracted. Aside from looking out at the water, watching the sunset, planting herbs, putting in some shrubs, I’ve also been busy picking berries and making jam. Posting might be a little sporadic as I get back into the groove of island [...]
Jul06
Barb called to see if I was interested in joining her on a little field trip on the 4th instead of doing the usual thing with the throngs. I jumped at the idea as soon as she uttered “Artfibers.” I hadn’t been to Artfibers since they moved out of San Francisco, so this was my [...]
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Jul03
Straight edges. 90° corners (T-Square provided as proof). Tidy attachments. This is probably the 3rd iteration of this attempt because I wasn’t satisified with variations of attaching the live knitting to the knitted piece. The one I finally settled on is: sl last stitch as if to purl, pickup edge stitch from the back, purl [...]
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Jul01
I’ve been looking at the pile of little tiny skeins of plied yarn from my two workshops with Deb Menz (SOAR 2008 and Spring 2009). They are a pretty lot. I wrapped them onto old business cards*… Then I took the leftover bits and started a project… Pretty, isn’t it? Too bad it’s on hold [...]