December 26, 2003 Friday I am knitting again. It feels like I never stopped; my hands don’t miss a stitch. How could I have not been doing this for so long? I have been a knitter as long as I can remember and got very serious in 1986 in an attempt, eventually successful, to reduce…
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Knitting Goddess
What a month! Knitting like a demon, finding the Knitting Goddess and Handpaint Country encouraging me to use even more color in my work. Writing a book about chainsaw carving that needs to be ready by the end of the month. Coming back to life after two month’s artistic hibernation and gestation. Fixing up my…
Nepalese Silk Yarn
I wasn’t particularly looking for a new knitting project when I wandered into the Diva Yarn store in Port Townsend, but when I saw the first display of recycled silk yarn from Nepal, I gasped. They had three more bins of it throughout the shop, priced to indulge. The yarn is spun from the tails…
Where the Rugs Began, part 2
We spent a few days at the Outer Banks with my family. While we were in Manteo on a grey and blustery beach afternoon, I stopped at the Endless Possibilities gallery, which I’d read about in Niche magazine. From their own promo: “Endless Possibilities is an innovative recycling project that utilizes castoff fabric from the…
Storing Textile Art Inventory
With the Tour done for another year and the house pretty much de-Toured, it’s time to move on to the next problem in my list. Rugs are becoming a volume problem: Where to store the finished product. I have scheduled a show at the Brewery in Pittsboro and will be able to display some 10-12…
Knitting Celtic Rugs
Whew! The surge of ideas has subsided just enough that I can start to get words all the way to the surface, but I have to stay out of the new drawing program or I’ll get lost in images all over again. Tried to write a few times earlier and couldn’t make it to paragraph…
I hate my stash
I’m feeling a bit knit-out… two on needles and one around the edges of being ready. Tons of wound-up fiber waiting and nothing I really wanted to knit. This is a dangerous situation. I kept looking at my “completed” page and thinking, “but I’ve don’t that already… I don’t want to do another one of…
draft keyword ideas
Spiral rug Excellent stuff–UK Handknitters Handwoven rugs from 2002 Info about rag rugs good site overall for keywords Oversize aran rug knit with rope fake knits, use of keyword only Etsy chair pad not profitable Carol’s rugs–handknit or crocheted, and boring Hand-knit rugs by Karen Tiede in Cary Feb 26, 2010 chainsaw carving rustic furniture…
Stash
Stash In between discussions of their Teeny Project Runway contest, Ann Shayne at Mason Dixon Knitting mentioned rag balls in her February 25, 2008 entry. At the same time, Stephanie Pearl McGhee posted a rumination about stash and how much was too much in her February 26, 2008 post at Yarn Harlot. It just may…
Stash-driven Design
Several weeks ago, one of the attendants at the swap shed that provides most of my rug fiber said she had heard the county was thinking of closing the swap sheds altogether; that they were too much work to maintain. My blood ran cold. There are other sources of clothing that can be upcycled into…