Category: Craftsy
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Mastery
GCW Master Weaver Certificate holders and their monograph topics: 1955 Mary Black: Tartans and Mary Sandin: Linen 1958 Nell Steedsman: Two Frame weaving 1959 Grace McDowell: Box Loom Weaving 1973 Adrienne Whitelaw: Ceinture Fleché 1975 Mary Andrews: Fundamentals of Weaving 1976 Sandra Feenstra: Double Weaves and Dini Moes: …
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Craftsy Blog
The latest Craftsy blog I wrote has been published here This weekend Cindy and I (and 10 other guild members) are attending a workshop being presented by Kim McKenna, learning about the new regenerated fibres. It’s been a while since I had done any spinning so I’m fumbling my way through the samples, mostly slippery…
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A Good Yarn
This morning I spent a lovely time at the Tacoma Weavers Guild talking about yarn. It was a gorgeous day and what can be better than discussing yarn and cloth with like minded individuals? When we got back to the house I had an email from Craftsy saying that my first blog post had gone…
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Here We Go Again
There are 4 days left until I leave and a stack of stuff to do before I go. Instead of doing them, I’m getting another painted warp ready to weave. Well, that’s not quite true – I have managed to whittle away at the stack of paperwork and we put more lipstick on the pig…
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Blue April Spools
Meg started a tradition of showing your spools/bobbins on April 1. Just finished winding off these lovely blue bobbins to go onto the next painted warp for scarves in shades of dark royal/Bristol blue. I mentioned last week that I had closed the door on vending at fibre festivals and lo and behold, a window…