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Lemon Chiffon Handwoven Scarves

Like most weavers, I have quite a stash of yarns.

When I’m at a show (not very common for me) and I see yarn I like at a good price, I buy it. Then I come home and have to put it away, and sometimes forget about it. Months later I’m looking in one […]

A little of this, a little of that

Laura Fry, a talented weaver who’s happy to share her expertise, just put out another publication — A Good Yarn: Cotton. Complete with actual weaving samples, 10 each in both pre- and post-finishing states, A Good Yarn is a wealth of information, predominantly information that isn’t available elsewhere. No one denies that. Some people, however […]

I Have A Valet

I hear what you’re thinking…”Peg has a VALET? I thought she lived ‘the simple life’.”

But it’s true. I have a valet. Built it myself. No, it’s not a robot that responds to my beck and call, it’s a warping valet.

What, you may ask, is a warping valet? It’s a tool that’s designed […]

Neck warmers

Trust me, I know it’s important to be consistent with my blogging. Important to my readers, important to my business, important to my structured-ness.

I try to be. I really do. Then I get so busy I barely have time to go to the bathroom, much less blog. And if that’s not bad enough, […]

Fixing Silver Bells

About a year ago a woman purchased one of my handwoven shawls. It was a hand painted relatively heavy rayon in a colorway called Silver Bells.

In May she brought it to one of my shows asking if I could fix a hole that happened in the shawl. She had no idea what caused the […]