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Unintended design elements

I finished that warp of 3 scarves shown recently on the loom. I used an undyed ring-spun bamboo warp and 3 colors for weft. Above is my favorite, an olive tencel.

I had wanted to keep the scarves all bamboo, but don’t have much in my stash (and am not buying more yarns, remember?), […]

Who did this?

This hole appeared in my front garden. Jack didn’t do it. Squirrels live in trees so I they didn’t do it. I had millions of chipmunks in the country and I think their holes were smaller than this. So my guess is bunnies. That they see all the veggies and figured they’d live close […]

So soft and cozy

Why was rayon chenille calling to me during a warm spell in late May? There are, in fact, good reasons.

I’d purchased many cones of the luscious stuff over a year ago when it was on sale. I couldn’t do anything about it when I was weaving baby wraps pretty much full time. Almost all […]

Going public

Does the scarf in that spread look familiar? It’s my cityscape scarf, published in the new Handwoven magazine. This article was 11 months in the making, from me watching a webinar on how to submit to the magazine, to having the scarf accepted as a concept, to having it published. In between, the USPS […]

What I’ve been up to

I spent much of today on that little project. Went to the nursery as planned, and spent quite a bit of time looking for and then choosing the plants I wanted, thanks to the helpful greenhouse manager at Grossman’s Garden Center. I bought more tomato plants than I’d intended. Oh well. So I dug […]