Originally published at WormSpit. You can comment here or there. My silk demo will be on display at the Crow Collection of Asian Art for their Lantern Festival. The event runs from 10 AM to 2 PM; I’m going to be there from 11 to 1. There will be lion dancers, lanterns to craft and […]
Originally published at WormSpit. You can comment here or there. Every once in a while, I get this neat synchronicity on my journal reading list. This time, one of my LiveJournal textiles buddies, Not Just a Girl wrote a post about dyeing with cochineal, and just a page down from it, I found Bug Girl’s […]
Although I’m good at what I do, weaving-wise, there have always been some areas in tablet weaving that have been difficult for me to grasp. Three-color doubleface has always been one of those. Thanks to Guntram‘s exquisite work, I’ve been obsessed with it lately. Tonight, I decided I just had to sit down and plug […]
Originally published at WormSpit. You can comment here or there. I’ve been experimenting with making a THICK filament silk, appropriate for knitting. This is a two-ply, using fifteen filaments (at about 40 – 45 denier per filament) per ply – so the finished yarn is something like 750 filaments thick. The main thing that I […]
SOAR was a total blast. My brain is still staggering under the weight of information received. I met SO many cool people. More info here.
Originally published at WormSpit. You can comment here or there. The Spin Off Annual Retreat was a blast. I had an amazing time, learned a LOT, met fantastic people… and took only a tiny number of photos. It was like going to the yarn store, and pulling a couple dozen of the best books and […]
We had feral cat kittens last year. We did all the Right Things – we handled the kittens, we took the mommas to KittiCo to get fixed, we placed ten of the eleven kittens, and we kept one. We started leaving food out on the back porch for the momma kitties – because it didn’t […]
This is a bit of an in-joke… there are a few people who will understand it. I made this as a gift for one of my online mentors. I based the graph on a photo of a red salamander that I found on Dartfrog. The ribbon is woven of 50-weight sewing thread; I bought it […]
The Fall issue of is up! I’ve got an article on Silk Reeling and one on Tussah Silk! Y’all check it out!
I finally finished up the name tag pieces! More details here