Category: From the old site
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Buffalo plaid pillow
This is a pillow shows just how balanced a handwoven fabric can be made. This pillow’s fabric emphasizes a particular aspect of the weave structure, its balance. To form perfect squares in the plaid with the same number to threads in both directions requires a balanced weave. I made fabric for three pillows (gifts for…
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Cotton ripsmatta rugs
This is part of a set of rugs that I wove in two different colorways: rose and blue. I made these rugs as Christmas presents for my family. An additional rug was woven and donated to Maryland Community Kitchen (now known again as Moveable Feast) for auction at their “Fall into Elegance” event. The warp is…
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Natural dye blanket
This is the result of a natural dye workshop. My weaving guild had a natural dye workshop with Louise Wheatly. I had just received a large amount of yarn that I had spun for me by Taos Valley from Romney that I had bought from Triple R Farm. This is what I used this for…
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My first project on my first loom
This is the first blanket that I ever wove. I had just gotten my new loom and needed to make something. I had this yarn around to knit a sweater, but the yarn had been sitting around for a few years and still was not made. I did a few calculations and figured out that…
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Handspun Aran
This is my first attempt at spinning a three ply yarn. I had always wanted to knit an Aran sweater, and this one from Country Knits by Debbie Bliss and Fiona McTague caught my eye. After spinning a number of smaller projects, I thought that I would try spinning the yarn for it. To make…
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My first weaving project
This is the very first item that I ever wove, start to finish. I learned how to weave from Tom Knisely at The Mannings in Pennsylvania. if you are interested in learning how to weave, I highly recommend his 5 day class, which is the one that I took. The class starts out getting you familar with weaving by…