This blog relates my various adventures within the world of fibre, including my explorations of tapestry weaving, spinning, dyeing and knitting.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
ABOUT THIS BLOG
This blog is dedicated to all my fibre pursuits -- spinning, tapestry weaving, dyeing and knitting. It will show works in progress, finished pieces, fibre destined to become something as of now end unknown, and dreams of fibre art to be created sometime in the future.
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I’m delighted to be bringing Flaxen to R-Space Gallery, Lisburn, as part of
the Linen Biennale Northern Ireland. 27 September – 24 October Tue – Sat
11-5...
Hello, hello hello!
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Well, hello there! Fancy you dropping by after so long! This has been one
hell of a year and 5 months and i am so bloody exhausted by being exhausted
and n...
The gist of grist
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I was recently asked if I could share how I maintain grist, a consistent
thickness in my handspun. First, I think it is important for me to stress
that my ...
Natural Dyeing Course at Ditchling Museum 2024
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Natural Dyeing Course 2024 With Jacqui Symons and Jenny Dean At Ditchling
Museum of Art + Craft Application forms are now available for the next
Ditchlin...
release
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i woke this morning and again....that sense of Lost, of flat~ness, of not
knowing how i can go. i made the tea, did the Usuals and it clung....the
word was...
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wandercards
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goodness me.
I blinked, and now it is November.
It's been another extraordinary year.
I've had exhibitions in New Orleans, Scotland and England.
Taught in...
A Trial of Dyeing with Dock Leaves
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As I paused to collect an armful of dock leaves, my companion, Elinor
Gotland sighed.
"Why on earth bring home weeds when you've a whole garden full of dy...
More ink
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So here as promised is my update on inkmaking from my dye stash this winter
– and what a winter: over 100cm of snow so far. Nothing for it but to
huddle ov...
Thorn
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In between periods of working on the Wicken Fen project, over the last year
or so I made a group of small works called *Thorn*. The making was spread
o...
Buckeye and Hickory
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It’s cold here. Cold. Gray. Rainy. But suddenly—turning GREEN. Not the
dark homogenous green of summer. Spring green. Hundreds of shades of
green. ...
Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sale!
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It's that time of year, and I'm passing the blessings along to you! As a
special bonus I'm running this sale through November 30th! Like many of you
I g...
Flax Update – September
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Over the past few days, I’ve removed the seeds from my flax bundles (there
were 104 bundles this year!). As I do not have any actual flax tools, I
found a ...
Harvesting Colour
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I seized a rare sunny day with dryish plants to start harvesting my dye
plants
Gensita tinctoria - dyers green weed- this I am drying
Some of my gensita...
herding weeds
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A reasonably successful excursion was made into the wilds of Inglewood
today. I took the camera so i could record actual growth areas, a journal
so i could...
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