Blog: Behind the Scenes

My Creative Emergency Toolkit

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I have been avoiding my weaving. Really. I have scheduled so many weaving days in the last month and just don't do them. It is not that I am losing the weaving love...in fact I am really excited about the stuff I have made so far. It is really more like I am feeling a...

Getting back to the art journals

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Confession time....I have fallen hard off the art journaling. While I would like to be able to say I am one of those people who can not live without her paper brain, lately that just has not been the case. I have always admired the sketchbooks of artists who are...

Friday 5: Random Pre-Valentine’s Day Love

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Alright Fiberistas. it is Friday, and after a LONG hiatus, I am once again bringing you 5 random things rocking my world right now. No. 1: The Produce Box I was pretty spoiled by Asheville's killer network of tailgate markets, and was skeptical that any thing as...

Other art I do

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I suppose you could say I have always had a thing for art. Most of us creative types generally do. Once we are introduces to crayons and the ability to make marks to express what is in our noggin, we are hooked. I have always been an advocate for having some creative...

When fiber becomes your obsession

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I woke up this morning with art on my mind...I was obsessed with potholder looms Yep...Potholder. Looms. You know the kind you use to make those girl scout craft potholder, that uses loops of knit fabric. I imagine for many of us it was the first kind of weaving we...

Studio Awesome Challenge Day 31: Finis…for now

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Alright fiberista's Day 31!! woo hoo a month of biz and studio reorganization has come to a close. And while I am so freaking excited to have a newly rehabbed space to start my 2017 strong, there is still quite a bit I would like to still do. But the big news is I can...

Studio Awesome Challenge Day 30: what did and did not get done

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One more day to go y'all. It is hard to believe I have been at this for a month. And I am not gonna lie, I don't feel like I will be finished. At least not in the sense of a perfectly organized studio space and business. It is something I am coming to terms with. For...

Studio Awesome Challenge Day29: the home stretch

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3 more days y'all At this point I am down to the Plowing through to make a deadline phase. When I started this challenge 29 days ago the intention was to get my shit together so I could start the new year with focus and boundless creatively. And to blog daily... Aside...

Studio Awesome Challenge Day 28: The other art I do

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I have more than just fiber in the studio, I have all kinds of other art supplies that help me make art. And they too are a hot mess!!! Part of what keeps me creatively productive has to do with other mediums I use to make art. What I mean is, sometimes I get...

Studio Awesome Challenge Day 27: Weaving and other fibery WIPs

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Like my spinning WIPs, the weaving WIPs for the most part are just a freeform, on going kind of thing. I do however have a couple of projects. As I mentioned in yesterday's post this is my current working bin. By no means is this the only yarn I am using on my current...

Studio Awesome Challenge Day 26: My Spinning WIPs

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My spinning WIPs are really closer to a perpetual WIP kind of thing because I usually finish a yarn in one sitting. But there are a handful of specific unfinished spinning projects that I have come across. For the most part my spinning project stash is this: Yep that...

Studio Awesome Challenge Day 25: My Perpetual WIPs

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Merry Christmas Y'all! Today I am going to share with you just 3 projects. But these projects are what I consider the heart of my creative mojo. Is I had to point to the three projects that embody UrbanGypZ and where I am going with my work, this would the three. They...