Archive for the 'rug making' Category

Elipses

on Aug 22nd 2012

So I was here, and then I was visiting Asheville, and then I was here again, and then we went on vacation, and now I’m back, but drowning in projects.  And books.  But the book I really want is missing.  And Speedwell . . . . Speedwell has finally cracked.  I’ll try to catch you […]

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Red and black and ever blue

on Sep 29th 2010

I got myself the sort of (quite early) birthday present I always want, but would never ask for.  There’s just no way to send someone out to find the perfect handmade journal for me, you know? It was made by Kreativlink on Etsy. I got one of the larger format ones, since I like a […]

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Needles down

on Jan 12th 2009

A small locker-hooked rug finished: A bug new, hooked rug begun: I’m using leftover and recycled yarns  for this, which is great fun. And, finally, a huge linen scrap quilt top finished: Excuse the flash and stray threads and skewed seams . . . Hot damn, am I glad this is done.  It’s 103″ on […]

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Unspun

on Jan 4th 2009

Like many spinners, I have fiber I don’t intend to spin.  Some of it is stuff I used to like to spin but don’t anymore, some of it is felting fiber that I haven’t felt the need to felt, and some of it is raw wool that I only have little bits of here and […]

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