Back in the Swing of Things

Thanks to everyone who left me well wishes in the past week or so! I haven’t been updating because I ventured home for Thanksgiving and left all my work at school, but now I have returned and am ready (almost) to face the next few weeks. Tomorrow is registration, and I think once that is [...]

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College Life, Take One

Here I am, procrastinating a paper and watching House, M.D. with my darling roommate. It’s nearing the end of the semester; that means finals, high stress, and a desire only for sleeping. I haven’t had a whole lot of time for fiber work this week besides the six hours I spent in class Monday night [...]

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Rewinding

I’ve been sick the past few days so even as I was telling people that I would definitely get my warp straightened out and threaded by Sunday, so I would totally be weaving on my loom by Sunday afternoon, I knew it wouldn’t happen like that. My body is just so exhausted, even though I’m [...]

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Double Cloth Sample and Intro to Final Project

And I just keep on falling more and more in love.
Yesterday we finished dressing our looms for the double cloth sample, the introduction to our next and final project. I spent a total of about eight hours on this sample including the time I worked on it outside of class. It’s a rough version, I [...]

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Greetings from Russia and the Land of Narnia

Three members at Sewing Circle- not bad for a first meeting. I hadn’t picked up any embroidery for awhile, so I took this with me:

In-progress panel inspired by Russian folk illustrations and design motifs. One in a series of probably three, so I have a lot of work to do. It’s part of my body [...]

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Being a Weaver on a Budget

I am relatively new to weaving. About two months new. To be truthful, I am new to fiber arts, having only declared my major last spring after really discovering the medium in the fall. There is no doubt in my mind that I need to be making fiber art right now, but I have to [...]

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Mini Tasks, Large Projects

Right now I’m in an in-between stage. The Ikat project is finished, and the double cloth project will start next week; first a sample, then the final for the class. Truthfully, I don’t have a lot of work going on in most of my classes, mostly essays and reading, and since I am impossibly quick when it [...]

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My Very Own Loom

Yesterday was my birthday- 20 years old, that sounds so strange- and my roomates and boyfriend did a pretty decent job at not giving away the fact that I was getting a surprise party. My friend Josh came to visit so Bryan (my boyfriend), Josh and I went out to dinner, which was apparently a [...]

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