Shawl Pins

These are the shawl pins I've been making with brass, pearls and gem stones. The brass is hand wrought and sometimes colored with heat.  I then lacquer them to keep their color. A little wax now and then keeps them looking great.  I've sold many of them so it's time to make some more!~ hurray! You can see the one on my scarf and I've found that pointing the "pin" down helps to keep it in place best.  These are the only ones left, so I'll get busy! This is actually an ancient Celtic design...I had no idea when making them...of course I've added my own dangles and shapes.

Plain Copper Shawl Pin on Scarf
2 inches by 2 inches

S shaped shawl pin with pearls, silver and turquoise
3 inches with dangle X 2 inches

curled shawl pin with pearls and turquoise
2 inches X 2 inches

Copper Shawl Pin
2 inches X 2 inches

Twisted Copper Shawl Pin
2 inches X 2 inches

Copper Shawl Pin with square iridescent pearl hishi and silver

Copper Shawl Pin with brass square and turquoise

Copper with Copper wire wrap
1 1/2 inches X 1 1/2 inches

Snowflakes in Organic Colorgrown Cotton

These are the towels and shawls I'm weaving lately in the colorgrown cotton yarn.

Wool Rag Rugs

This is my latest rug attempt.  I'm finding the measurements are rather illusive...I think I've added enough to make them to size and I needed more!  I'm still happy with them.  My teacher Sarah Noggle showed me how to add the Shaker technique as an accent.  It's the chevron pattern bands.

New handwoven cotton blouse

These are handwoven from organic colorgrown cotton.  They are a simple style that is very flattering.

Wild with sunflowers

We have thousands of sunflowers greeting us as we come close to home...it makes us smile : )

Busy Week

Wow! It's been a busy week.  I've played in the garden, hanging herbs to dry, found some great new silk I can't wait to paint...

The Peaceful place to sit a minute

8/2 Mulberry Silk!!! nice for knitting or weaving

an interesting color wheel!!

I'm getting my weaving brain, hands and feet back together, spinning is not so tiring and I've begun some of my sewing projects!

New Website Up!!!

It's been an interesting journey, with the help of Susan Ottwell of  http://sottwell.com,  my website has a new look.  It isn't totally functional yet and I need to add some pages and shopping cart, but it is up!  Feel free to take a look and definitely give some constructive criticism where you see the need.  We'll have menu buttons soon!   http://chamomileconnection.com/