by DesignerLynne | Nov 27, 2011 | Throw, Uncategorized, Workshops
Just a very brief note to let you know about the next workshop. The drum carders have both been recovered and they are fabulous! What a difference in the quality of fibre and the lack of time it takes to float off a beautiful silky batt. However, having spent too...
by DesignerLynne | Nov 27, 2011 | Throw, Uncategorized, Workshops
Just a very brief note to let you know about the next workshop. The drum carders have both been recovered and they are fabulous! What a difference in the quality of fibre and the lack of time it takes to float off a beautiful silky batt. However, having spent too...
by DesignerLynne | Nov 25, 2011 | Philosophy, Uncategorized
Call it soppiness or soft-in-the-head or an over-active imagination, but when I’m working with animal fibre, I feel the energy of the animal. Questions bubble to the surface, to the gentle clack and clatter of the spinning wheel; who was this animal? What kind of...
by DesignerLynne | Nov 22, 2011 | Projects, Throw
Sitting indoors smothered in a thick woollen blanket that’s growing bigger every minute is hot work, so I grabbed this very brief opportunity to sit outside and make the finishing rounds on the second ‘Granddaughter Project’. It’s one of those rare moments for this...
by DesignerLynne | Nov 17, 2011 | Cowl, Projects
I just wanted to squeeze in a quick post today to share the background to a project I’m working on. I’ve really wanted to make some things for my granddaughters this year. However, I’ve put it off and put it off and put it off. I tell myself that...
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...
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