Here are my photos from Twist: The Art of Spinning by Hand (at the BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown, MD through Dec 17, 2016). I'm very honored to have my yarn and fiber in the exhibition.
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Are you thinking about buying a raw fleece? All the choices can be a little overwhelming at first. But don’t worry, I’ve put together some tips to help you pick a fleece with confidence and find one that you will love working with.
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Strauch has a nice post on Springtime colors on their blog. They are using a photo of my Mad Batt'r in the post.
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I'm honored to announce that my weaving entitled "Secret Garden in the Eye of the Storm" will be on exhibit at the Bellefonte Art Museum in October and was featured on the event page for the exhibit. This was the final project I completed for the Journey to the Golden Fleece Course I took last year and was selected along with 19 others to be on display as part of their fiber arts festival.
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I crocheted this scarf over Christmas holiday using ~ 2 skeins of my multi-color bulky wool blend yarn.
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I'm really excited because my photo from last year's Spinzilla competition is being featured on the event page and social media promos for Spinzilla 2015. I will be spinning again for Team Madwool and hopefully reach the mile mark this year.
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My photo was featured for the class "How to Choose a Fleece presented by Melissa Weaver Dunning" on the Shenandoah Valley Fiber Festival 2015 page. I'm really looking forward to this year's festival, which is one of the best in the area. Visit the SVFF website for more info.
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Here are answers to some of the frequently asked questions I get about spinning and yarn in general.
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My photo of my Mad Batt'r drum carder was used in Strauch's ad in Ply Magazine's Summer 2015 issue. I was a featured artist on their blog last September. I'm a huge fan of their fiber equipment so I was really excited that they selected my picture for the ad.
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The fiber arts world is very small. I really enjoy getting mail from Indie Untangled, a comprehensive site to bring together yarn lovers and amazing products from indie artisans. So I was gleeful when I saw my stock image of my handspun yarn and favorite blue bowl that was used in a Design Seed featured in Lisa's post about the color teal. After a little digging I discovered that it was also featured in Apartment Therapy's post on Design Seed's site relaunch.
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Taylor Chona handspun the yarn and knitted this cute beanie.
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This breed closeup is all about Shetlands.
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For Valentine's Day, I made a corespun yarn with some cute little crochet hearts using Solitude Wool roving.
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I really love these loop infinity scarves and cowls by Happiknits. They're great examples of what you can make with one skein of handspun yarn when combining it with another yarn.
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Taylor Chona handspun the yarn and knitted these lovely warm fingerless mitts from a 222 Handspun art batt. The free pattern is "Bulky Fingerless Gloves on 2 Straights" by Temple Croke.
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I purchased some amazing fleece samples from The Spinning Loft. I wanted to try some breeds I haven't spun before. Here are the breeds for this month that I sampled:
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My continuing exploration of sheep's wool from various breeds around the world following along with the Fleece and Fiber Sourcebook. I've been purchasing Breed Boxes from Namaste Farms and enjoy listening to Natalie's informative discussions of the featured breeds with Martin Dally on Namaste Farm's BlogTalkRadio cast.
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Michele spun some 222 Handspun hand dyed Organic Polwarth top into a lovely N-plied skein.
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