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YouTube Live Cast Today: Weaving and Planning

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Today, fiberista, I am going to finish working on that circular weaving AND... talk about plans for next year. Not just my plans, lets talk about your plans, too. Around this time of year, I look at what I want for the coming year and really, really think about how to...

Live Cast: How to be and artist if you didn’t go to art school

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In this YouTube live cast, Fiberista, I am answered a question that I got on Instagram. This fiberista did not go to art school, but was curious how one became an artist without formal training. Since this subject is close to my heart, I shared some of what I know....

Live Cast: How I use my knitting stash for art weaving

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I think most of us art weavers started as a way to use up some of our languishing knitting stash. I know I did. especially when it came to figuring out what to do with my large handspun stash. But I tell you not all knitting yarn works up in art weaving the...

Live Cast: How to calculate how much yarn you will need for art weaving

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Today, Fiberista, I am answering one of your questions: How to calculate how much yarn you will need for your art weaving. Even more specifically, how to calculate your warp. So, if you caught this live, you know that I rambled on for 4:09 minutes before...

Art Weaving Demo

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Alright Fiberista. Today I am inviting you to weave with me. I will be working on the weaving for one of my wall pieces. Join me at 3pm EDT. If you can't make it, no worries. Bookmark this page.the replay will be here. To participate in the live chat, follow this link...

Livecast Replay: Things I wove and what I learned along the way

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One of these weeks I will be able to do a live cast without tech glitches. Once we finally got started, in last Sunday's live cast I shared with you my new ceramic loom piece(eeee! more of these are definitely in the kiln) offer some tips on weaving in the...

Weaving Art Without A Loom

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I almost bought a big floor loom last week. No lie, I have been stalking the used fiber equipment pages here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. A $150 loom popped up in Raleigh and I was ready to go get it. But my studio was not as ready. This thing...

clay + fiber = ART

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I know I have shared a little bit about some of the ceramic stuff I have been making. Like lots of mugs (I have a thing for a really good hand thrown mug). An I have even shared a bit about how I have been incorporating ceramics with my fiber art. In Sunday's You Tube...

Recap of my weaving workshop and how I am using it to make art

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Last week I FINALLY took the weaving class I have been wanting to take fore -freaking-ever. A basic how to weave traditionally on a 4 shaft loom. Mainly, I wanted the skinny on how to warp a loom, because I have had an old 4 shaft table loom that I got for...

Live Cast Replay: Weird stuff in my art weaving stash

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Egad! it was a technical disaster! But I stuck with it and got my live cast on track and the glitches worked out. Well most of them...sorry about the crappy picture. So yeah last week's Live cast had its share of glitches. I swear next week's will be better. In this...

Join me for some YouTube LIVE in the Studio

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I am not going to lie. I have kind of hit a blogging rut. But I have been in the studio quite a bit. Lots of spinning for now, with a bunch of weaving ready to be made. And....actually.....some sweater progress!! I have always prided myself with being able...

The 3 Sweaters I Am Determined To Complete This Year

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Okay fiberista's as I promised in last week's post, here are my sweater WIPs. I am limiting them to 3 for now because I personally work better when I don't have too many choices. Don't get me wrong, after last week's purge, i have another 5...