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Cap class.
A long story with an alternate ending.
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In which I live life struggling to address emergent creativity amidst the constant demands of everyday requirements.
Love Your Inner Llama!
Cap class.
Stepping where I want to be
Maggie's Scarf
A long story with an alternate ending.
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A little bit about me
My mother was a painter. She exhibited on Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard for a few years. I grew up with palette knives, tubes of paint, and an easel always there. I was always enamored of my mother's alizarin crimson oil paint. Both my middle sister and I painted for awhile. My middle sister is an amazing painter, but chose a different path to make the world a better place. My youngest sister is a writer and thinker/philosopher.
My other mediums are photography and sculpture. I used to do all my own b&w work and worked in a number of formats. So I have always loved the flow of medium. I sculpted in stone a bit and loved it. Stone is as alive and flowing as fiber. I also love lampwork. Liquid flowing glass. Painting with glass. I love it (and who doesn't like playing with fire).
Fibers are like paint, they flow and move together. Whatever they are doing in any preparation they are presenting an image and a texture. I used to quilt about 20 yrs ago. ;) I started spinning about 18 yrs ago. Since then it has truly been the creation of me. It has formed my life, my direction, and part of my soul. Fiber and textiles gives to me in ways I cannot express. Life without art and creativity is not an option for me.
I love to spin. I adore and ... hoard?.... collect spindles of all kinds. I weave in multiple ways (tablet, tapestry, harness loom). I tried to stay focused and stay away from dyeing... but I failed utterly and now well... I love that too. I love to teach, I love to learn, I love to study and synthesize what I take in. I am still in the process of growing up.
Ahhhh, Silk + Color
Favorite Blogs to Visit (a lot, but the spirit is out there)
- A winding Thread
- Abby's Yarns
- American Tapestry Alliance
- Archie Brennan / Susan Martin Maffei
- Ask The Bell Wether
- Bead Lizard
- Bee Bonnet
- Bjo's Dyery
- Carol's Blog
- Charlene Anderson: Unravelings
- ChocolateTrudi's arty-crafty blog
- Complex Weavers
- Constance Rose
- Curious Weaver
- Cyber Fiber Scriber
- Deborah Bee
- Devon Fine Fibres
- Dyeing To....
- Evil Auntie Leslie
- Eweniquelyewe
- FiberEwetopia
- FiberGal
- Fibres of Being
- Fun with Fiber
- Gloria Ross Ctr Tapestry Studies
- Habetrot
- Hand Weaving Today
- HandWeavers Guild of America
- Hawley Street Studio
- Hawthorne Works (brilliant frugal guy)
- Hey Dawn Hows the Studio Coming
- Honeysuckle loom
- http://www.hawthorneworks.com/wordpress/
- I make fish and other things
- Ibolya Hegyi
- Indigo Muse
- Insanity Looms
- Jeanne B's Tapestry Links
- Lady of the Loom
- Leighs Fiber Journal
- Life Looms Large
- MacFiberFall Studio
- Magic of Light, Mystery of Shadows (dyer)
- Melange: A medly of Life
- Melissa Rambles On
- Mountain Spun Farm
- Mountain Weaver
- My Life is But a Tapestry
- Nuncle Duchamp's intellectual Bridge
- Palouse Works
- Persimmon Tree Farm
- River City Weaves
- River Rim
- Sandy Webster
- Sarah Swett
- Sarah Swett (2)
- Scarf a Day
- Sheep in the City
- Sheepwreck
- Singing Weaver
- Six Swans Flying (Amy Clarke)
- Sleeping Dog Weaving
- Sock Lady Spins
- Spin Off Blog
- Spindlicity!
- Spinners, Weavers, & Knitters Housecleaning Pages
- Spinning Lizzy
- Spinning my Life Away
- Spinning Spider Jenny (Janine B)
- Spunky Eclectic
- Starcrossdesigns
- Sunrise Lodge Fiber Studio
- Tabby Tree Weaver
- Talking about Weaving
- Tangleweave
- Tapestry 2008
- The Cashmere Kid
- The Independent Stitch
- The Open Shed
- The Panopticon
- The Spinning Wheel Sleuth
- The Textile Society of America
- Three Sheeps To the Wind (The Spinning Loft)
- Thrums
- tsocktsarina
- Weave 4 Fun
- Weaver in Paradise
- Weavezine
- Weaving A Life
- Weaving Spirit
- Weft to my own Devices
- Wool Dancer
- Works in Progress
- Wormspit
- Woven Thoughts (Sara Lamb)
- Yarn Harlot
Blog Archive
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May
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- Fields of Fiber -- A Sea of Color .... Griffin...
- SIT AND SPIN!!!
- Hippo Birdie two Ewes...
- Medieval Image of the Day
- When I get old , I want to be like this... :)
- Drawer Pull Drop Spindle -- By Abby Franquemont
- Sheep, Goats, ALPACA
- Frantically working and doing everything else
- Purely for absolute FUN!!!
- Medieval Image of the Day
- SOAR Registration and other activities
- Medieval Image of the Day
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May
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Just a word...
I do have a little thing for all these widgets. The word is inviting. So yes, I do have a few counters and they all have different numbers depending on when they were installed. I just like them. They're fun. Nothing more, just fun. ;)
One of their idiosyncrasies is that they do not ever have the same numbers on the same days. It seems like, from a guess, that they each have their own recognition system of various websites or even various countries. Interesting... therefore I must concede that I actually have no real idea of how many people visit me. Leave me a comment ;) Just a thought.
One of their idiosyncrasies is that they do not ever have the same numbers on the same days. It seems like, from a guess, that they each have their own recognition system of various websites or even various countries. Interesting... therefore I must concede that I actually have no real idea of how many people visit me. Leave me a comment ;) Just a thought.
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