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Let’s start with the loudest, and the cutest.

I was working at the Macomber late this afternoon, when all of a sudden there at my porch door was someone looking in at me and saying, “Hi! Let me in, please.” After a double-take, I realized I had a visitor.

I opened the door […]

Showing more shawls

I got the 5 shawls fringed, wet finished, pressed & labelled, ready for the show this weekend. If this show goes like my last 2, I’ll return home with fewer shawls than I left with, so here’s what may be your only view of them.

In order of weaving….first up is a silk shawl in […]

Working Hard

A few years ago my sister gave me this mug. In fact, she had it made special just for me.

In case you can’t read what it says, here’s a close up.

That’s what my life is like at the moment.

I got the 3 silk shawls woven and I now have the […]

Shawl Heaven

My show last weekend at Chautauqua Institution was great! The weather was perfect, the location is marvelous, the crowds come and are respectful and pleasant.

And interested in buying. Clearly this is the year of shawls. At the Roycroft show in June I sold 4 shawls – 1 rayon, 1 rayon chenille, and 2 […]

Silk Shawl News

You already saw the falling leaves shawls. Well, I decided to dress one of them up with some beaded fringe.

I decided that the colors in the shawl lent themselves well to the use of some of my little gemstone beads, so used garnets, carnelians, and citrine. Plus some glass seed beads that mimic […]