As a member of the Spokane Handweavers Guild, one of our missions is to bring awareness of handweaving to the public. It’s strongly encouraged to support and enter items into the fair, and I believe it’s important to do so. When people don’t participate, the fair committee may remove entire classes of items. Handweaving has…
I’ve been working on a new weaving draft during the cooler hours in the studio. It’s a 6-harness huck lace design I created using my Fiberworks software. I knew I wanted some variation in the warp and weft so the crossing of threads would stand out a bit more. I had two cones of 8/2…
The wait is finally over! Honestly, it wasn’t that long since these are custom-made. In anticipation of this event, I cleaned under my loom—and even steam-cleaned the carpet! Actually, I ended up cleaning the entire studio because summer dust tends to settle everywhere. The box was smaller and lighter than I expected, but once I…