Tag: spinning
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Remember this lovely thing? It’s finally being spun, and by someone who knows what they’re about no less. That person is not Mouffette, though she is clearly instrumental in the process. It’s being worked up by the immensely talented Leslie Ordal, with an eye to keeping the different colour sections intact. It’s already looking pretty delicious…
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Inglenook Fibers is a hand dyed fiber studio located just outside of Boston, and it’s one of the many ways that the Sisters of the Holy Nativity Convent are totally self supporting through craft. A few weeks ago one of my pen pals there, Mother Macrina, wrote to me and asked if she could use…
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On Sunday, our awesome friends Johnathan and Bev took us treasure hunting at an antique market out in Milton. Places like this are fascinating… …filled with old books, old toys, furniture, art…. …even things that are creepy… …and then, SHAZAM! Here’s what I was able to find out about it – circa 1860 (we researched…
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Just a photo of my gorgeous new drop spindle, and the work I’ve started, and a quote from Elizabeth Zimmerman :) Feel free to click for a larger copy and save it!
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Leslie Ordal came over last night for some last minute photography of her spinning work for a piece she’s writing in Interweave Magazine. We didn’t have a lot of time to plan the shoot, and the material was all white. White fluff, spun into white yarn. With the challenge of coming up with something artistic…
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The photo is one I took of the 2 sisters roving I’m working on, and I found the quote online – feel free to click on it for a bigger version, enjoy! Here’s something else I learned from a friend, quoted from wikipedia: The charkha (etymologically related to Chakra) was both a tool and a symbol of the Indian…
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This weekend I got lots of spinning time in on the balcony, while relaxing in the sun. I swear it’s heaven. I finally decided to take a crack at this bad boy from a company called ‘Two Sisters”: … and I must say it’s coming along nicely. I’ve decided to treat myself this weekend to…
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There is a box with a spindle and some fluff sitting in a corner of the apartment that I’ve cast guilty looks at every evening for weeks. I thought ‘I’ve let it go so long I probably suck at it now, better to not open the box and find out!’. I’ve been travelling so much…
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Photo-Take-Outter Fridays have been thin lately… because I’ve been busy photo-take-outting. I’ve got a cool thing or two buried in the gigs and gigs of RAW files that are clogging up my mac. I’ve also been bouncing around on weird hours between the west coast and Toronto and let me tell you folks; When you…
The Blue Brick 