Tag: showcase
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Process over Product
I’ve always loved lace. I think it’s beautiful, I love the delicate intricacies and variations. I love lace clothes, lace curtains, lace tablecloths. For my wedding I queered up my outfit by wearing a cathedral length lace veil over my butch tailored pants and vest. However, I’ve never been much into doilies. They’re pretty, but…
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Protests & Layoffs
Caitlin and I have a joke that I am cursed to never be able to make her a hat that fits– to be fair, she has a really big head! I made her this hat a couple years ago and, alas, it is too small, so I’ve donated it to a fundraising auction at a…
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It Takes a Village
What should I write while the world is descends further into fascism? Our fragile and imperfect democracy is on the verge of collapse and the tenuous progress of the last few decades is swiftly unravelling. I’m scared, and angry, and tired, and lonely. I’ve spent a lot of time dissociating into my art in the…
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My Weapons of Choice
I know, this is a fiber arts blog, but I just love my new tattoo so much that I had to share! All credit for this amazing artwork goes to the talented Dr. Z at CryBaby Studio. Bear with me, and I promise I’ll tie this post back into my fiber arts theme! All of…
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Hope, Fear, and Witchcraft
My wife once described my knitting as “weird, indecipherable magic that involves cursing as an incantation”. And she’s not wrong! I’m happy to say my most recent project was a fun and easy knit that involved very little cursing, but it was definitely still a weird and indecipherable magic and it made a profound impact…
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Kumihimo
My best friend Skot made me a Marudai loom! Don’t feel bad if you’ve never heard of a Marudai loom, because I hadn’t either. It took some googling for me to actually figure out what it is and how to use it! It’s a little round piece of wood that is used to create decorative…
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Island Weaver
Do you have someplace that you consider your heart-home? A destination or a community or even a region, that isn’t where you live your day-to-day life, isn’t even necessarily someplace you’ve ever actually lived long term, but is nonetheless “home”? I’ve got a few of those places; Camp Celo is one (where I spent my…
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Magic Bracelet of +1 Calm
Today I’m going to show you a finished product that didn’t turn out at all the way I’d hoped. I’m showcasing it even though it’s not up to my usual standards because I really want to share with you all that I’m learning something new and it’s far from perfect and I’m still proud that…
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Getting my flow back
I think you all know by now that it’s been a bit of a rough year for me. I haven’t done much crafting at all. I hit a wall on a few of my ongoing projects and just couldn’t get into the right mindset to start something new. I really needed a relatively quick and…
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Merry Christmas & Happy (Christian) New Years!
Did you know that this New Years holiday is originally a commemoration of Jesus’ bris? That’s why it’s 8 days after Christmas. There is no secular reasoning to celebrate a New Years on this date; it’s a Christian feast day deeply rooted in Christian theology. But mainstream US culture is so enmeshed in Cristian hegemony…
The Owl Weaver 