Attack of the Frogs!

After spending thirty minutes at Sav-A-Lot standing in line trying to buy pancake mix, syrup, and two cans of spaghettios (seriously, half an hour), I knew I didn’t have the strength to start putting together the mock-up for next week’s costume right away. I am damn terrified of that project (having never made human-sized clothes [...]

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Pretty Pretty Rag Rug

I’m back from the dead/ MICA pre-college! So as my first fiber duty coming back from the dead, I decided I needed to finish this rug today. I am pleased; it’s a good size, nice and comfy for the feet, and the colors are bright and cheery. I needed to finish it off quickly because [...]

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Sweet (Sweet!) Hair Piece

So, I don’t want to beat the rosette to death, but this was just a small weekend project of mine, making sweet, vintage-y, wearable hair pieces. Easy to make and looks great with full skirts and 50s hair.

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Rosettes Are The Way To Go

I’ve had this afghan for about two million years, the fringe is falling apart and there’s a solid rectangle of fabric that has disintegrated in one corner.  But I absolutely love it, with its alphabet farming theme that I will never quite understand. And the falling apart didn’t bother me, but the paint stains sure [...]

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Weaving: Finished Product, No Sewing

This is a small change purse I wove for my grandmother’s birthday. The really neat thing about it? There was no sewing involved. The entire purse was woven in doublecloth: for the main body of the piece, the cloth was woven with two seams, one on the right and one on the left, creating a [...]

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Hello, Summer!

Finished with sophomore year, and now that I’m home, it’s time to start thinking about my summer projects before I go back off to Baltimore to work at MICA’s summer pre-college program for high school students.  My plans include perusing my 1919 copy of Dress Making Made Easy for a little garment design, getting some [...]

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Weaving for Practicality and Wearable Art!

At the end of my last project (the double cloth pick-up narrative) I had a lot of warp left over (that’s something to be said for calculating too much waste) and I really didn’t want to waste the beauty of the bamboo and tencel deliciousness. Seeing as I had the yarn and the time, I [...]

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Spinning Progress

I decided to pick up my merino wool again- this time with some real conviction! Much like knitting, I don’t find spinning to be a very interesting or satisfying a process, but the results are probably worth it. I plan on using whatever yarn I spin to revist some small “tapestry” panels I started months [...]

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Picture Frame Loom

I have studied for hours memorizing everything from Paul Cezanne’s Five Bathers (1885) to Moholy-Nagy’s Light-Space Modulator (1930), I made a giant (giant!) piece of cloth, and sent in my HGA scholarship with days to spare!- it sounds like time for Spring Break! A well deserved rest, for sure, but there are a few little [...]

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For Listening/ Reading

Astronautalis, Carl Sandburg, Margaret Atwood, Sappho I’ve decided that I’m going to let these fine folks help guide the creation of my final project for poetry. It will be excellent, I can already tell.

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