Don’t those pictures of the super chunky arm knitting blankets look cozy? They’re all over Facebook and Instagram. They have a great sales pitch about how fast and easy they are to make. All these pictures online are making people think about how great it would be to cuddle up in one with a cup of hot …
I’m delighted to present a guest blog written by Heather Wallace on her Sheep to Shawl journey. Like many of us in the fiber arts, she was first captivated by handspinning when she saw a public demonstration. Here is the story of her Sheep to Shawl project: How It Got Started Since you’re reading this …
When my daughter moved out of state, she couldn’t take everything with her. She talked me into keeping a box of silk garments she’d rescued from thrift stores over the years. (Twist my arm!) Although she has similar tastes to mine, meaning anything green, these garments were purchased solely for the natural fibers and not …
Let’s get up close with some wool, silk, and mohair Nuno felt fibers. Really, really close. I always wanted to see the difference between types of fiber under a microscope, and got a chance today. You see, I live with a science teacher and I decided a few weeks ago that he really needed a …
I was curious. How thin could I make a wet felted scarf and still have it be durable? I’ve been playing with Nuno felt, which has a woven silk fabric as the base of the project, with wool felted into the silk for texture, warmth, and softness. But wool makes a durable and soft fabric …
Nature printing, or eco printing, is the art of pressing leaves onto a fabric or paper surface and extracting the natural dyes from the leaf, leaving a perfect print of each leaf’s surface. Some leaves print more clearly than others, but every single time there are surprises when you unwrap your “bundle.” If you haven’t …
Eco-printing is a journey, more than a destination. It is a perfect project for the Infinitely Curious Person and a really frustrating project for The Perfectionist Person who wants standardized results every time. I’m the first one– the Infinitely Curious Person. It’s just that part of my curiosity involves wondering if I can standardize my results at least some …
I’ve had an obsession with knitted lace since I was nine years old and my mother told me I had to get stockinette stitch right before I could move on to fancy knitting. Carpal tunnel symptoms have been keeping me from knitting at all lately, but when I saw these colors in superwash lace weight …
People are always asking, “Where can I buy wool roving?” on posts in the fiber-related Facebook groups. One of them exclaimed a couple of weeks ago, “You mean, I can get fiber from AMAZON?!” Since I spend hours every day researching what’s new in the world of Fiber Art supplies and sales, it wasn’t news …
There is a gray-haired lady, graceful and attractive, sitting in the waiting room with her head bent down, unabashedly sporting a protruding magnification visor which gives her the incongruous air of a mad scientist. Her intense focus is on the small object in her hands. If you get close enough, you can see that her …