At a recent fiber show, I met the most beautiful, creative woman who introduced me to the concept of using hand spun yarn for doll hair. Now we’re not talking just any dolls or just any hand spun. These dolls are exquisite, and their “hair” is elaborate, art yarn. Wow!
I had to take these pictures [...]
Learning to spin yarn has not been an easy pursuit for me. But after several classes and a good bit of practice, I’m starting to see some progress. It has helped me to use colorful fiber that I liked working with. The natural browns and off-whites looked so much like kitty hairballs that it was [...]
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about yurts on an alpaca farm in the Green Alpaca video. I just learned about Kate Pokorny’s mission to crochet a yurt. Her plan is to create a functional yurt out of a continuous strand of felted wool to create a lovely self-supporting housing structure, like a wooly [...]
What’s not to love with this precious reindeer pattern from Fuzzy Mitten? You can purchase the pattern here. The minute I saw it my Christmas spirit soared! Be sure to visit all the Black Friday Fiber Arts Participants’ shops and think handmade this holiday season.
What have you been up to this week? Share it with [...]
Hand Dyed Alpaca Yarn on Etsy
This week on Fiber Arts Friday we want to highlight our Fiber Arts Friday participants’ shops. You can link your blog if you want, but you are welcome to use this week as an opportunity to promote your Etsy (or independent) shop.
Buy Handmade this Christmas and shop with our Fiber [...]
Quick Announcement: On Black Friday (next week) – we will be having you link your store, Etsy or otherwise, to Fiber Arts Friday. While I love promoting blogs, this will give fiber artists who don’t blog a chance to participate in Fiber Arts Friday, and for us to be able to promote buying handmade for [...]
Announcement: On Black Friday (the Friday after Thanksgiving) – we will be having you link your store, Etsy or otherwise, to Fiber Arts Friday. While I love promoting your blogs, I know there are many fiber artists who don’t blog. This will give them a chance to participate in Fiber Arts Friday, and for us [...]
One thing I know my readers love is drum carders. (If you don’t love you some drum carding – click here for a baby alpaca being cute). When I saw this video from my friend Mary from Acres Wild Alpacas I knew I had to share it with you. Here Mary shows you how to [...]
This week I’ve been dyeing alpaca yarn and fiber using Fall colors. Since we live in the South, summers are our most challenging season on the farm. This makes Autumn my favorite season. It brings such a welcome relief from the seemingly endless hot, humid days.
What better way to revel in the season than creating [...]
Have you seen this? This beautiful tapestry was made from spider silk. It took four years and over a million spiders to make. They had to recruit “spider wranglers” to “harness” the spiders to capture their silk. Odd, but fascinating! Read more about it and listen to the NPR story. The tapestry is in New [...]
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