Sorry it has been such a long time

I hope to be a better blogger... I have had a bit of a setback with my right arm, which put my weaving way behind. In case you do not remember I slipped on the ice at the end of December and wrecked my shoulder. Turned out to be a torn rotator cuff tear and bicep tear. I have had physical therapy which has gotten me to a much improved plateau. I can now move the arm with a minimal amount of pain most of the time. Weaving is still slow as well as caning. I did managed to get a couple chairs done over the past couple months and finish off my green warp as well. Been getting rug uploaded onto ETSY slowly but surely.

Now I really need to kick some weaving butt. Spoke to a surgeon on Wednesday the 25th and now have surgeon scheduled for the 21st of May. Now that a deadline is looming (pun intended) I feel the pressure of getting all the weaving, felting and caning I can get done in 6 weeks possible.

Wound on a brown warp last night and hope to get it sleyed today. A lady is bringing over three chairs to cane today so I need to fit that it as well.

oh Boy something Lucky

I just found out I won one of the Designstyleguide 12 days of Christmas giveaways.http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=35262541

I have a sister who has collected elephants ever since she was a little girl and now is a teacher who celebrates National Elephant day with her fourth grade students. I hope she will love this beautiful elephant as much as I do.

very nice to have this happen the day after my horrendous slip on the ice. typing is sort of hard for me today, but for this I will make the effort :)

thanks so much to all the artists who donated their wares.

Fiber Sculpture

I have been inspired to begin fiber sculpture again after a long long interval.


I first learned to crochet from my high school art teacher. He had just come back from a summer art studio and had learned free form crochet. It was very freeing to have learned to crochet free form objects rather than being held to the restrictions of a pattern for mittens or a scarf. Later I learned to do those as well, but I have always felt I could crochet a house with the right materials.

It feels good to be back in 3-D again after so many years of flat weaving, which has it's own challenges.

some of the new rugs just off the loom

I have been remiss in Blogging

I have been filleting a huge mass of bluejeans. My husband has graciously volunteered to cut them into usable strips while he stays up late watching and re-watching movies. It has taken almost the whole month to get them done. As I was taking them apart I got to thinking the zipper pulls looked very interesting. I have always saved all the labels from anything I took apart, but zipper pulls are new. I dug out the zippers from the bag I was tossing things into and clipped them out too.

My daughter and I are both of the opinion that one of something is rarely cool, but dozens of something are automatically awesome. I gave the pulls to her and she made three lovely necklaces out of them. I have convinced her to sell one on her ETSY site and I hope she can get some more done before she goes back to college soon.

I finished off the blue warp. Log cabin is a very strong warp and tends to overpower intricate patterns. It is great for playing with and I did get some nice checkerboard effects on a couple rugs. I will post pics when I get them photographed.

I got a nice long green warp wound onto the loom. I have enough rags to put on 55 yards of warp. I will be doing green for a long time I think. Most of my time now is spent cutting the rags. I sort of like to have them all in front of me when I design. I pull out this group and that group and ponder what will look best together.

I photographed half the new rugs and got the pictures squared away. My knees sort of gave out though so I will have to try to get the rest in tomorrow. I then have to get them uploaded into ETSY or Artfire.

Well back to work I guess

The summer is just flying by

I think I heard somewhere that this is supposed to be summer vacation. Ha! so far I have caned 5 chairs and one chair back and felted between 80 and 100 balls. I cannot seem to stop. Wound on 45 yards of blue and natural log cabin and with Maddie's help got it sleyed and tied on as well. Have woven three blue jean rugs and a couple flannels. I love how flannel packs down. One of the blue jean rugs I wove in a checkerboard pattern, which is very time consuming, but the result is quite lovely. That is the beauty of log cabin. Well I am off to fringe those rugs I took off the loom and maybe cut some more blue sheets.

Painted Bull

Check out Painted Bull on Artfire. She has such passion in her work and is a weaving goddess. I find her enthusiasm inspiring. I love the historian in her as well. Her weaving is certainly unique to her. I have never seen another weaver do what she does. She keeps this old weaver young :)

thanks Kid!