by DesignerLynne | Nov 15, 2011 | Carders, Tools of the Trade, Uncategorized
The Fibre Arts Bootcamp drum carders are both receiving a new lease of life. They are being recovered with shiny new card clothing (that’s the strange name for the steel bristle covering). The electric carder is being equipped with a really fine 90 tpi (teeth...
by DesignerLynne | Nov 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
Dear Marjorie, should I be worried? I intended to write about the Topless Hat which I crocheted from the first yarns spun by our students on the ancient and peculiar spinning wheels we have. Did you know that weavers used to pay a lot of money for newbie spinners...
by DesignerLynne | Nov 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
Daddy or Chips? Many people in Great Britain will know what I mean when I ask ‘Daddy or chips? It was a charming television commercial. I have no idea what the product being marketed was but we saw two young sisters sitting at a table eating chips (real chips – not...
by DesignerLynne | Nov 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
Fibre Arts Bootcamp is the educational arm (or is it a leg?) of Llamas in the Raw, which produces and processes the fibre and raw materials for fibre artists. We’ve held a couple or workshops, which were very nice, but……. this is just the beginning...
by DesignerLynne | Nov 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
Hey! We’re up and running and with a little more tweaking and tweeting we will begin to feed this space with some of the huge volume of information and photos we’ve collected. On this site we will be discussing the Fibre Arts Bootcamp (FAB) workshops, both...
Calling All Fiber Artists - all proceeds from the FAB Fiber Arts Store go directly to help the Llama Sanctuary