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The 8 Truths About Creative Jobs

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I hear it all the time. "Oh how I wish I had a more creative job" It is usually coming from a fiberista who dreams of knitting all day instead of her accounting/administrative/nursing job. I get it. I used to dream about career knitting when I was in my former 9 to 5...

Art Weaving Part 1: Picking a rigid heddle loom

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If you have been following my Instagram feed or Pinterest boards, you may have seen I have been on a weaving kick. I m totally blaming Debra Lambert of Picasso Moon, who taught the so very inspiring weaving class in Taos. I had already had a couple of looms, and had...

5 myths you should know about shooting good craft photography

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It is now so much easier than ever before to become an amateur photographer. Instagram, the quality of the phone cameras, apps that make even the lousiest images look HOT! Everyone has access to tools to become somewhat of a photographer. Despite all of these tools...

Fiber Crush: Knitter’s Pride Needles

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I am kind of in a panic. I can't for the life of me find my interchangeable needles. I have seen them within the last 3 weeks. But as of this weekend, I have no clue. I have torn the house apart, torn the studio apart and I am feeling the sweat across my brow...

Why You Should Show Your Work

How to think like an artist, The Business of being an artist | 4 Comments

One of my goals for 2015 was to spend more time doing my own fiber art, to build my body of work. It is so easy for me to get stuck on the hamster wheel of being a dye monkey and not actually working with the yarns and fibers that are such a big part of my art. I have...

Fail Spectacularly in 4 Easy Steps

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As I mentioned a couple weeks ago, I'm doing a lot of planning for 2015. One of my favorite parts of this process is looking back on 2014 and taking inventory of what went right what went wrong. As I look back over the past 12 months, one goal that I failed...

5 Steps to Rocking Your Best Creative Year Ever

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This week I dove into a day of planning for 2015. Now granted as business owner, it is good important vital to do some serious planning for business. Setting goals, projects and checking in on my vision for my business as a whole. I absolutely love this part of what...

Fiber Crush: Freeform Crochet

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This past labor day weekend I spent a solid 3 days working my hand dyed and hand spun yarn using freeform crochet. Freeform crochet is a way of making a series of motifs created improvisationally and pieced together to create a fabric. Prudence Mapstone is known for...

Fiber Crush: Recycled Sari Silk Yarn

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It is easy to see why lots of people fall in love with sari silk yarn. I personally LOVE IT. Rustic and colorful, I get my yarn directly from a fair trade collectives in India and Nepal and is hand spun but village women for a fair wage that supports their families...