November's weavers gathering was at good friend Nan and Jim's home. They and their young son, Ethan had recently been to Japan and had lots of books, pictures and tales of their travels to share. They all got to experience indigo dyeing, sumo wrestling, drumming and kayaking. A highlight of our gathering, as always is [...]
With our lovely fall colors comes a plethora of artist studio tours to tempt me from getting back to weaving. This year hubby and I did the Fresh Art Tour in west central WI. I had so much fun talking with two weavers in Alma, WI that I almost didn't make it to the actual [...]
Our fiber group had the pleasure of having our meeting at Sonya and Cecil's wonderful sustainalbe super energy efficient solar home. Her business Newenhouses has several house plans, all under 1000 sq ft. Check out this article about her business with lots of great pictures. It is always fun to see where creative friends live [...]
Just to share some of the breathtaking fall scenes from a recent trip to Door County. There is nothing that calls to my heart more than the sound of waves crashing onto the shore. Cave Point Park Sentinels of the Lake . . . [...]
So during my recent yarn dyeing marathon my chief yarn color namer had the audacity to leave for college. She and her sisters, over the years have heard frequent pleas, for inspiration on naming yarn colors, after I have reached the brain dead state of too much color decision making. Therefor explaining my colorways named [...]
Our fiber group was fortunate to recently have spent a lovely summer day, sharing our fiber projects, surrounded by Olga's lavish flower gardens. Her poppies were definitely the stars of the show. So much so that it made me wish I was a painter, especially seeing Judith putting some of that beauty to paper wth [...]
Well not much of a tale. Just a treasure trove of unique shops that I discovered on the way home from the Midwest Weavers Convention in St Paul last month. What mostly had me yell STOP to my poor hubby, was seeing an assortment of rugs hanging outside a shop called Cultural Cloth In Maiden [...]
St. Thomas University in St Paul, MN, hosted this year's Midwest Weavers Conference. With tours to places like The American Swedish Institute, The Minneapolis Art Institute, and Fairbault Woolen Mill and many classes with some of the weaving worlds' biggest rock stars. Classes like; Doublewave with Jennifer Moore, Crimp Cloth with Dianne Totten, and sigh...Designing [...]
Summer is truly here and I can't think of a better way to spend a day than getting together a car full of friends, for a road trip through the rolling hills of southwestern Wisconsin. Even better to have the destination of our newest fiber friend Barb's lovely country home. We enjoyed seeing her flock [...]
Our May weavers gathering at Carole's couldn't have had a prettier setting. Her property is smack dab in the middle of an old apple orchard that was in full bloom. We spent so much time laughing and chatting, eating so much great food, and oohing and ahhhing over show and tell projects; that I didn't [...]
