Life is good!
As demonstrated in the past year, I am not a great blogger. However, I can be found on Instagram, where I post about my fiber arts activities and important things in life, most of which circle back to fiber arts in one way or another. Here are a few highlights.
The single outstanding highlight of my year was that I became a granny! Friends have told me how life-changing this is. Now I know. Of course, I wove a blanket. Preparing for a Guild workshop on lace, I spent many hours playing with designs and sampling. In the end, I decided on a lace name draft in organic cotton. The number of lace blocks is the letter’s place in the alphabet: E had 5 blocks, L had 12, I had 9, S had 19, and then back to 5 for E. It was mirrored and then woven as drawn in. Of course Baby Elise is getting plenty of fiber exposure already!
On our trip to Scotland last fall, we visited The Weaver’s Cottage in Kilbarchan, and I had the pleasure of meeting two weaving friends. I had pre-arranged to visit Cally Booker in her studio in Dundee – we had tea and talked (of course) about weaving! Plus, in a totally random encounter, I bumped into tapestry weaver Louise Abbott (who lives two towns away from me!) on the street in Edinburgh – such an unexpected highlight of our trip!
On a roadtrip to my dad’s house in Colorado, I hemmed a bunch of towels I’d woven in the spring. Plus, I found several textiles that I had woven over the years and gave to my dad. I think it’s so awesome that my parents still keep things that I make for them! While there, we stumbled into a gallery exhibit that was a knitted life-size replica of the room in the children’s book “Goodnight, Moon”. To help with the scale, the rocking chair is big enough for a human to sit in!
