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Heart Like a Wheel: Spinning and Fibre Arts as Meditation Practice: Badlands: Continuous Strand Tapestry Weaving
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Heart Like a Wheel: Spinning and Fibre Arts as Meditation Practice. THE RAMBLINGS OF A DEVOTED FIBRE FANATIC. Study for Meditation Mat. Saturday, 1 August 2015. Badlands: Continuous Strand Tapestry Weaving. I finished weaving my Badlands sample last night. I'm pretty pleased with it at the moment. The colours are lovely and the spontaneous design worked out nicely. I can see things I wish I'd done differently and areas which could use improvement, but that's always the case, is it not? NololHowever, I do...
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Heart Like a Wheel: Spinning and Fibre Arts as Meditation Practice: Somewhere Over the Rainbow 2015
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Heart Like a Wheel: Spinning and Fibre Arts as Meditation Practice. THE RAMBLINGS OF A DEVOTED FIBRE FANATIC. Study for Meditation Mat. Wednesday, 15 July 2015. Somewhere Over the Rainbow 2015. Once the fibre is cleaned, I separate it into batches of locks and fibres to be carded, then into colour groups. Here's the current batch ready to be sorted:. Here are the locks sorted into colour groups:. What doesn't sort into locks will be spun as is for textured yarns or carded and spun into colour blends:.
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Heart Like a Wheel: Spinning and Fibre Arts as Meditation Practice: August 2015
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Heart Like a Wheel: Spinning and Fibre Arts as Meditation Practice. THE RAMBLINGS OF A DEVOTED FIBRE FANATIC. Study for Meditation Mat. Sunday, 30 August 2015. Smoke From a Distant Fire: Sea of Joy Continues. I've spent the last two days hiding from the smoke, heat, humidity and mosquitoes, which means full days of working on "Sea of Joy." She's coming along - there has been some unweaving, but only a bit, and I'm past the quarter mark of the piece. Here she is after Day One:. So, "Off with his head!
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Heart Like a Wheel: Spinning and Fibre Arts as Meditation Practice: May 2015
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Heart Like a Wheel: Spinning and Fibre Arts as Meditation Practice. THE RAMBLINGS OF A DEVOTED FIBRE FANATIC. Study for Meditation Mat. Saturday, 23 May 2015. Sanctuary: Kasugai Gardens, Kelowna. Links to this post. Friday, 22 May 2015. A few posts back, I talked about choosing this road trip project. Said the Knitting Goddesses. The problem is that the piece should be twice as long. When I'd knitted about 25 cm, I discovered two things: a mistake in the stitch count which misaligned the columns and ...
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Heart Like a Wheel: Spinning and Fibre Arts as Meditation Practice: December 2014
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Heart Like a Wheel: Spinning and Fibre Arts as Meditation Practice. THE RAMBLINGS OF A DEVOTED FIBRE FANATIC. Study for Meditation Mat. Monday, 29 December 2014. The Long and Winding Road: Looking Forward to the Tapestry of a New Year. I'm not sure where I first heard this advice. Perhaps I read it or perhaps it was said to me, but wherever it came from, it stuck and since the idea was planted in my head, I've done my best to follow it. Links to this post. Wednesday, 24 December 2014. The energy level in...
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Heart Like a Wheel: Spinning and Fibre Arts as Meditation Practice: January 2015
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Heart Like a Wheel: Spinning and Fibre Arts as Meditation Practice. THE RAMBLINGS OF A DEVOTED FIBRE FANATIC. Study for Meditation Mat. Friday, 23 January 2015. Lyin' Eyes: Of Sticks and Snakes and What the Mind Sees. By the time I was called into the doctor's office, my mind was racing. "What will be wrong this time? Shit More appointments." "What will it be like to be totally blind? While my loss of vision could have been caused by medication I'm taking, the most likely cause was stress. Despite my...
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Heart Like a Wheel: Spinning and Fibre Arts as Meditation Practice: Somewhere Over the Rainbow 2015: Spinning Yarns
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Heart Like a Wheel: Spinning and Fibre Arts as Meditation Practice. THE RAMBLINGS OF A DEVOTED FIBRE FANATIC. Study for Meditation Mat. Wednesday, 22 July 2015. Somewhere Over the Rainbow 2015: Spinning Yarns. Weft-faced weave or am I weaving rugs? I’m not a purist and tend to go with whatever works best for me.). There you have it – step two in the long, but rewarding process of weaving tapestry from hand spun singles. 22 July 2015 at 21:07. Beautiful yarn, Deb! Cant wait to see the next step!
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Heart Like a Wheel: Spinning and Fibre Arts as Meditation Practice: June 2015
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Heart Like a Wheel: Spinning and Fibre Arts as Meditation Practice. THE RAMBLINGS OF A DEVOTED FIBRE FANATIC. Study for Meditation Mat. Sunday, 28 June 2015. Wasn't That a Party? Stop in a yarn? As we gather round and watch YouTube videos of Peacock Spiders doing their mating dance. Teaching Level 4 was a new experience for me. I teach beginners. That's my thing. Jennifer with some of her skeins. We were fortunate this year to have two renowned silk reeling experts on campus - Michael Cook aka Wormspit.
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Heart Like a Wheel: Spinning and Fibre Arts as Meditation Practice: Sea of Joy: A Small Study, a Big Change and a Glimpse into the Process of Designing
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Heart Like a Wheel: Spinning and Fibre Arts as Meditation Practice. THE RAMBLINGS OF A DEVOTED FIBRE FANATIC. Study for Meditation Mat. Saturday, 8 August 2015. Sea of Joy: A Small Study, a Big Change and a Glimpse into the Process of Designing. Commercial wool singles warp, commercial mixed wefts, hand spun and dyed wool wefts. Approximately 24 x 36 inches. That's 8 ounces of Icelandic singles spun up, along with a bin full of other weft yarns, from black to white. There's another 36 ounces of Welsh...