New scarves

I've finally finished the crazy lace shaw/scarf in the handpainted variegated blue lace weight silk and other silk scarves/shawls.  Here is a little view into what has been completed.

Crazy Lace knitted Shawl/scarf from handpainted 15/3 (Maharaja) Silk

silk scarf/shawl from handpainted 20/2 Silk

detail of the 20/2 handpainted silk scarf/shawl

Same 20/2 handpainted silk warp with a hand dyed weft in blue...it looks purple!

detail of the above scarf/shawl

Views, Weaving and Copper Cold Connections Workshop

We have some great skies in New Mexico.  This is a view from our front porch.



I'm weaving a waffle weave on my Baby Wolf loom.  It's looking pretty good!



 At the beginning of February I enjoyed the gem and mineral show in Tucson, Art Festival in Tubac and a workshop with Mary Hetts in Tucson. It was a great time. Here are some of the pieces I made at the workshop.

Organic Cotton Yarn, dyed yarns and fiber

 

 

Hello Everyone...sorry to be so slow to post. I suppose you could say I'm keeping busy!! I've been working on getting established in a new region and getting over health issues for the past 2 years!! What I wanted to tell you is with the cotton industry and crop failures around the world cotton prices have risen higher than my parent company can absorb, so they are passing the price increase down to us. I will have to raise all my cotton prices 15%. I'm running very low on the green and caramel colorgrown cotton, so will be pulling most of my stock and the foxfibre for personal use. I've noticed Sally's prices have far exceeded mine..so I need to rethink what I have in stock.

The organic cotton blankets I have are superior quality. I had company coming this past summer, and thought "I have to get a new blanket"...duh...there are blankets in the shop! So, I've put them on the beds and wow...what a pleasure they are. They wash well and feel wonderful. I'm mostly using the chenille cotton blankets, but do have a few more summer weights. The point is, I don't have much of a mark up on these blankets, basically cost + a very little. I will be raising all these prices by at least 15% also.

Thanks for all your support over the years. I really value you as friends!

Warmly,
Lynnae in NM
http://chamomileconnection.com/

Scarves Scarves Scarves!!!

I've been working with an 8/4 Rayon yarn.  It's such a lovely drapey yarn.  Also put a space dyed painted silk yarn warp and plain dyed weft for a lovely twill scarf.  This is the lighter version.  I just washed the purple version, and I'm finishing a window scarf which I will post soon.

 This is a 4 harness draft from Davidson and the variations:

Rayon and wool fulled

 This is an 8 harness twill from Handwoven's Scarves:

 

 
Rayon Diamonds in purple

 Rayon and wool twill

New projects on the loom

I've had to bring looms inside near the fire, and I am weaving a lot! We haven't gotten my studio heated as yet (my engineer is working on it).  50 degrees sounds warm, until you try to work in it.  Last spring Kathy, from Unique Design's by Kathy, and I traded some yarn.  It's  been a challenge to think of a way to use her coils and keeping the integrity of the yarn.  I've been experimenting with "window scarves" and this is what I came up with.  Sorry for the blurrrrrr.... It's fun the way it fulls after washing and fills in all the holes.  I sort of like the holes!

Organic Cotton Cloths and Towels

The sets are Banana paper bags, reusable, with 3 10 x 10 cloths....

The towels vary in size and types of fabric...all 100% organic fabric and thread!

Tucson Wool Festival

We had a great time at Kathy's Unique Designs.  It's taken me a while to post...I have another festival coming up this weekend!  Yikes!...Kathy introduced me to Crazy Lace and I thought I'd post the scarf I made with this design.  Also some pictures of the festival and a handspun, handwoven ruana.

 Crazy Lace knit scarf...in silk
                                              

The booth! 

 Mindy's handspun yarn and fiber

 My Friend Mindy

 Handspun and doubleweave ruana front

ruana back

                                                        
          smaller windows silk scarf

Silk windowpane scarf