Blog: Weaving

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...

Plan your fall sweaters in 5 easy steps

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I've said it before and I will say it again....I am determined to get some new sweaters cranked out this year. Seriously it has been a while since I have had a new sweater that I made myself. We're talking years. I am totally ashamed to admit this, but it...

Weaving Hacks: Combining tapestry and rigid heddle loom techniques

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Today Fiberistas, I am eating my hat. I am guilty of talking smack about one of my looms. Let me just say one of you inspired me to dive deeper and I have just folded some crazy new techniques into what I have been weaving...so here is the back story.... When I first...

Family Stories: How They Shape Your Art

Creative Inspiration, everyday life, How to think like an artist, The Business of being an artist, What I am working on | 9 Comments

Fiberista, Can I be real with you for a minute? Maybe you guys could tell from my trend of encouraging posts about finding your visual language and how it relates to a greater life purpose. Something on my mind lately as I navigate these things for myself. This month...

Is this the best art you can make? 4 mindset questions to slay your doubts

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I listen to a lot of business audio books and lectures. I know its kind of crazy since usually artists are not naturally aligned with business theories. I had no formal business training when I started my art business. But lucky for me there are so many resources to...

Spinning Art Yarn from Ginormous Rolags

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Woohoo! I am feeling like a YouTube LIVE pro at this point...okay, not really, but you guys again, Sunday's stream was awesome and fun. I love connecting with y'all. Here is the replay: I am definitely going to do this again soon. I am...

What size rigid heddle loom should I get?

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Today, Fiberista, I am going to answer a question I get quite often...What size rigid heddle loom should I get? Now, I did write an entire blog post about how to select a rigid heddle loom for art weaving. That post is long overdue for an update. For this post, I am...

How to Go From Crafter to Artist in 7 Steps

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Ages ago in Birmingham, my friend Robin and I would do a weekly craft night at her house. I had just started to knit and was making a garter stitch scarf that was, of course, way too wide. She was a cross-stitcher who loved tackling large complex patterns. Others...

Advanced Art Weaving Techniques

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Check this out. I have a ridiculous number of artisan craft related books. I used to work for a craft book publisher. When they were purging their library of mostly fiber art books, I jumped at the chance to rescue them from the garbage bin/thrift store. Most of these...

UrbanGypZ’s Art Weaving Link-o-Rama

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Check this out. My prototype for a new art weaving header is finished. This is an idea I had festering in my head for a while and I finally put my nose to the grindstone and made her. This is really just a kind of test. I have a series of these ladies to make. Next...