I finished my apron, and it is folksy femme-tacular! It's made of muslin, with a drawstring tie. It has two pockets, each with a pencil-size side compartment. I crocheted the lace with some cotton thread, and the faux embroidery is drawn with fabric markers. I got the designs from an old communist-printed manual on Hungarian folk embroidery ( Read more... )

For the last several months I've been itching to own, and wear, an apron. Not a modern, functional apron, like you might wear while cooking in a bistro, doing leatherwork, or weeding the garden. No, I want a frilly, embroidered, ultra-femme Donna-Reed-meets-Romanian-folkdancer apron. With pockets. I want a kötényI prefer wearing skirts, but I'd ( Read more... )

I'm making another triptych for the God Box at Gaia Community, for this year's patron deity, Lugh.

Mmmm, linky.

The last triptych I made was backed with blue velvet and I tried multiple ways of connecting the three boards (hand-cut pressboard), all of which categorically failed and left me with a 'permanently unhinged' triptych. Grr ( Read more... )

While cleaning today, I wanted to go through a stack of mail and sort it into file folders. This first required unearthing and emptying the file box, which was not filled with files, but was instead filled with the unsold items from last year's Winter Bazaar ( Read more... )

I have figured out how to do pick-up patterns on the inkle loom. It does not match any of the four systems described in Helene Bress' book, and I have no doubt that my mother, the consummate fiber artist, would shudder in horror at what I've done to make it work. But, it works, and the pattern does in fact bear a passing resemblance to Celtic ( Read more... )

I had a weird dream/fantasy about weaving last night, so I pulled out the loom zylch made me and decided to break it in. It is strong and lovely, and took the warp like a champ. I then went to spool my shuttle...

shuttle?

Was there a shuttle? Uh-oh... did I put it somewhere stupid safe?Oh well, I'm sure I can make one. Let's see... what can I make ( Read more... )