Carole's doubleweave scarfElin's alpaca woven scarf, Barb's repweave and Elin's hand dyed yarn, Susan"s scarves, my rayon chenille shawl(sorry Susan for cutting off your head)Carole's doubleweave pillowtranquil pondloom with a viewElin's hand dyed yarn, Olga's recycled sweater hats, Barb's wool applique, Joyce's dyed silk scarvesDenise, bravely modeling the sheep hat portion of a costume that [...]
Many thanks to Nan for hosting this months (oh wait, it was last months) weavers gathering. Tells you how crazy busy I have been. We had Sharon join us for the first time with some of the many projects she has woven over the years. Great inspiration, I hope that she joins us often. Many [...]
I wanted to try this multi warp scarf for the recycled art show that we featured at VIVA Gallery recently. One of the warp threads is a recycled silk sari, handspun yarn from Nepal, beautiful and unpredictable, and probably not my wisest choice for a warp thread. In all its lovely loosely spun hairiness it [...]
These are the beautiful results we achieved with our assorted natural dyestuff on silk scarves. The second picture has silk samples using (bottom left, clockwise): rose petal, red beet, and tansy/ willow/ elderberries/ red cabbage/ yellow onions/ sumac/ and cranberries.The gray/ black scarf was dyed with willow leaves and cooper wire. The lines are where [...]
We had the good fortune of having Michelle Workowski of the Nature of Things, do a natural dye class at Kindred Threads during the Driftless Studio Tour in November. The surprise element of natural dyeing is half the fun, the results are pretty unpredictable.We used damp silk scarves and laid out an assortment to natural [...]
