Just off the loom

I've been weaving yardage of the colorgrown organic cotton and took 7 yards off the loom this weekend.   It's in an M and O's woven pattern and the colors really look great after washing....if you go to the December 25th blog you can see this before washing.

This is a doubleweave project I learned from Suzanne Halvorson.  I made a scarf like this but the photos didn't come out, so this is the wall hanging.  It's cool because you can put pencils or knitting needles in the "pocket" areas.  This is rayon chenille and I need to get it ready to hang.

Flame Painting on Copper...just learning

I just thought I'd share some of the current copper painting I've been doing.  This is all in the learning process.  I can't reproduce anything yet.  But they are really cool and I'm going to use them in different ways.

This will become a pendant

This is one of the first.  It's framed in copper from an old roof in Silver City

Just practice pieces to become earrings or small necklaces

these will be earrings, they are tiny really maybe 1/2 inch

earrings to be...do they have to match?

Almost earrings...I framed the painting with a pounded edge

It's hard to see but the flame is beginning to be controlled

Just another "stock" piece to do something with it

Julia Louet Spinning Wheel for sale

This is a rarely used wheel since I have others.  I had thought it would be good for teaching and it is, I just feel like it's time to find a new home.  $500 plus shipping.  It comes apart nicely and can fit into a carry case if you have one or make one.

Great wheel with 4 bobbins and the lazy kate

I have the little piece that fits in the orifice...just afraid I'd lose it and don't really need it.

Organic Cotton on the Loom

This is an M and O's pattern on the Baby Wolf. It will hopefully be wide enough for fabric to make a blouse or two.  This is using mostly Fox Fibre, some Lunatic Fringe and some Thantax in the colorgrown organic cotton yarns.  It will darken and get more beautiful after washing sort of like the bottom picture.

Funky colors

Sometimes the colors I paint on the top is because I want a certain effect...like forest or flower garden.  Here is what Forest looked like as a yarn.  The fine Aussie roving has sold.

And this is Sunset in Fine Australian top (a medium fine like corriedale) and yarn:

This one is a fairly unusual color combination for me in untreated Merino top

This is a fairly bright combination I would never think I'd like to spin, and yet the yarn looks like a fun project!

this is a technique taught by Kathy Withers at Unique Designs by Kathy.  It's using elastic as a core

One of my favorite spinning fiber, SeaCell Merino blend in some blues and hybiscus

And finally the current challenge:

The yarn is on the wheel.....

Snow in the Mimbres!!!

With 8 inches or more of snow we are snowed in.  No traffic on the road and my little low to the ground car is in the carport...no chance of getting out right now!  Who would have thought?

Where is my studio?

A display of what I do

This was a bit of a display of what my studio holds. I handpaint yarn and fiber for fiber artists, weave and sell cones of yarn.