Wovenflame

There are obsessive sock knitters, but I'm not one of them. Sock projects tend to languish in the small knitting bag that I only take to...

I have a special fondness for dragonflies. When I am in a calm and peaceful mood I can gently reach out and pick them up. It's like they...

I've been working away on Kenzie's stocking, a bit at a time, but I wanted to complete this cute little face before showing you the ...

Work on the Aeolian Shawl continues. I've knit nupps, I've ripped nupps (and over a dozen other rows with them!) and I've re kni...

Winning ribbons at the local exhibition was great, but I must say I'm even more proud of my daughters. Kristy won two firsts, two second...

I won, I won! In fact, I won quite a lot. In an effort to support our local exhibition I decided to enter anything I could possibly think of...

It's done! I have a new, handwoven, huck-lace valance for the window in my wee Loom Room. I wove it on my 4 shaft floor loom using th...

I have been going through a tremendous amount of life turbulence lately, all of it out of my own direct control, and therefore causing me gr...

I searched and searched through the pile of felt looking for "piece #3, snow" which was to be decorated with sequins and beads and...

My daughter's custom guitar strap is complete! I had to deconstruct an inexpensive guitar strap to get the findings to finish off the h...

It's time. Not Christmas time. Not time for snow flurries. It's time that I started working on granddaughter Kenzie 's Christmas...

Inspired by Andrea's example I wanted to write a list of MY natural anti-depressants too. Once I got rolling I found that it would be e...

Work on the Aeolian Shawl continues. It's been a while since I've knit lace and even at this early stage the rows seem very long. It...

My daughter has a beautiful new guitar and has started lessons. She asked if I would make her an inkle band guitar strap. I just happened to...

I've given up on the flax cotton blend yarn. I found it was showing signs of wear and fuzzing even while I was knitting it. I was afrai...

I'm planning on placing an order for yarn to weave the huck-lace valance, but in the meantime I have thrown on a fun warp made from odds...

The 50/50 flax/cotton blend was just too pretty and unusual to give up on when it didn't work for weaving. (click for bigger) I've...

I guess I’ll call this “finished”. It was an experiment that I wasn’t sure would work, but I put a warp on the full length anyway just in ca...

I can see that this new loom is going to be a problem. She likes to be dressed at all times! I let her sit naked for less than a week while ...

This little mound of cream puffs is on it's way to the guild's closing Potluck dinner. Want my recipe? Buy 4 boxes of mini cream puf...