Monday, Sept 9, is the deadline for entries in the Topsfield Fair. You can enter your articles online but the process is a little confusing, so here is the path I followed to enter my piece. Hope this makes it…
Liz Sorenson is going to be selling these beautiful skeins of North Ronaldsay yarn in her shop but wanted to give NOBO weavers the first crack at them. I bought the darker and lighter grays and they are SO soft…
Only two spots left in this beginner-level workshop at Antrim Handweaving Studio & Study. Sept. 13-14, 2013. Imagine learning to weave with merino, alpaca, silk or cashmere! Contact Margaret Russell at Antrim Handweaving, antrimhandweaving@comcast.net, or Betsy Martin at A Loom…
Okay, so I guess the natural dye bug bit me good on Saturday. And I don’t mean those little cochineal critters… I’ve been trawling the different Ravelry groups and really like this one: http://www.ravelry.com/groups/plants-to-dye-for Lots of sharing, as Ravelry does…
Not quite but I had someone contact me about a barn frame loom at the Historical Society in Kingston, NH. The heddles are disintegrating and the treadles (2) need retying. They were hoping a weaver or weavers might be willing…
“Mystery Dye” (St. John’s Wort), indigo, osage orange, lichen, cutch, onion skins, cochineal, black walnuts, tansy, goldenrod, logwood. Assorted wools, silk, alpaca, dog hair, a handwoven hankerchief, and t-shirts.
A perfect summer day…pondering the mystery dye…smiles and hugs and laughs…my special wooden tags…a riot of color on the fence…onion skins doing their magic…spinning in the shade…Peg’s beautiful walking stick…mixing it up with tansy then indigo…frogs in the dyepot…”I didn’t…