Custom Handwoven Shawl

Unlike some of the weavers I know, I’m happy to take orders for custom weaving. Usually the order is for something I’ve made before or something close to it.

For instance, I’ve had special orders for a solid black rayon chenille scarf of a particular size, a solid white one without fringe, a cotton [...]

Quite the wait

This is not the way I wanted to start a new year – by having 10 days between blog posts. Writing a blog post has been on my list of things to do for over a week, and somehow, other things kept taking precedence. There’s nothing I can do about that now; I can [...]

Custom Weaving Scarves

Unlike most weavers that I know, I am happy to do custom weaving for people. Last year I made a very bulky organic cotton scarf for a woman with multiple chemical sensitivities. This year she wanted to order a few more scarves, but in a lighter weight for when it’s cold, but not [...]

Rayon Chenille Colors

Last night I finished weaving the solid black rayon chenille scarf, the last of my custom weaving orders. This morning I wet finished it, and I’ve just finished the hand hemming.

Now I can get back to weaving with the colors, fibers, and patterns that move me.

At the end of December, Tammy, the talented [...]

Alpaca Houndstooth

Continuing my custom weaving orders, I wove this handsome alpaca scarf. My customer has a forest green coat with brown trim, and wanted these colors in the pattern I’d woven earlier in the red, gray & black. Since both of the colors in the new scarf are a similar value, the houndstooth pattern doesn’t [...]