Category: Magic in the Water
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Count Down
cover bathrobe project Linen placemat/table runner project There are now officially just 17 full sized copies of Magic in the Water; wet finishing handwovens left at the time of this writing (June 1, 2011). I usually sell a couple of copies when I travel to teach so by the time I get home on June 12…
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Latest Creation
This is the jacket pattern packet And here is the jacket on the dummy……….click photo to biggify The fabric was woven in 2001/2 and entered into the Convergence 2002 Carnegie Yardage Exhibit in Vancouver, BC. It was one of those occassions when I had a warp on the loom and decided to use some of…
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Fibre Fusion
There is a new fibre festival happening, this one in Grand Forks, BC. Grand Forks is a few minutes away from the WA border, several hours from Spokane, WA. The festival is being run in conjunction with a larger arts event happening in the area, so there are lots of events for everyone. 🙂 Fibre…
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Baby Steps?
the cover of Magic in the Water…. one of the project pages from Magic…. Does anyone not know what Magic in the Water is? It’s a 2 inch ring binder filled with information on what wet finishing is and how to do it. The ‘meat’ of the book is the project pages where you see…
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Organized
my 2011 calendar…. I really wish I were better organized than I am, but (you saw that ‘but’ coming a mile away, didn’t you?)……..but I’m not. People who are not organized always have a million reasons why not. I think we spend more time thinking up excuses than it would take to simply get organized!…
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Organized
my 2011 calendar…. I really wish I were better organized than I am, but (you saw that ‘but’ coming a mile away, didn’t you?)……..but I’m not. People who are not organized always have a million reasons why not. I think we spend more time thinking up excuses than it would take to simply get organized!…
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Organized
my 2011 calendar…. I really wish I were better organized than I am, but (you saw that ‘but’ coming a mile away, didn’t you?)……..but I’m not. People who are not organized always have a million reasons why not. I think we spend more time thinking up excuses than it would take to simply get organized!…
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Additional Thoughts on Samples
Realized that I had a few more thoughts on samples that I wanted to share. The photo above shows the issue of Hand Woven that the Harrisville yarn samples are in, and one of the several sets of samples I wove for it. I will have them with me at ABQ and the tour in…
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Collapse
Just finished cutting this off the loom. It’s the last of the samples I’m providing the participants of the Magic in the Water part II workshop in Albuquerque. The white yarn is a cotton with lycra in it. The pinks are Bambu 12 (about the same size as a 16/2 cotton). The cotton/lycra was set…
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Head’s Up
The current exchange rate between US and Canadian dollars is now more or less at par – in fact I lost money on the last bit I exchanged at the bank. 🙁 I will be changing the US $ price on my Artfire site in two days to reflect the new exchange rate which means…