I haven’t dived into anything big since moving but I thought I would share the beginnings of the sampling methodology that I am developing for my spinning. It is a method derived from methods we learned during the Spinning Certificate at the Handweavers and Spinners Guild of Victoria, bits and pieces picked up from watching […]
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The Spinning Certificate I have been undertaking every month for the past 15 months is drawing to a close. The course is run by the Handweavers and Spinners Guild of Victoria and coordinated by the exceptionally experienced Carmel Hanna. As part of our assessment, we are required to produce a final project that demonstrates our […]
Hello again. I am still working towards recovery from this fatigue condition. Things are stable but life has had to be pared right back to basics. From this new beginning, I can very slowly build towards recovery. Everything takes so long now and I am still finding my voice and my sea legs, everything I […]
A couple of weeks ago, I attended Day One of the Spinning Certificate at the Handweavers and Spinners Guild of Victoria. The Certificate is a rigorous grounding in a broad range of spinning techniques in order to design and produce yarns for specific purposes. I was so excited the night before it started, I kept […]
The Riverwife whorls came with us when we went camping in Western Victoria recently. The spot we go is a special place encircled with towering Blue Gums Eucalyptus globulus and Messmates Eucalyptus obliqua. The trees bear the blackened trunks of past fires and bracken has taken over much of the understory. There are fallen trees […]
Ever since I read Elizabeth Wayland Barber’s extraordinary book Women’s Work: the first 20,000 years, I have been fascinated by spindle spinning. I have a couple of beautiful, wood turned ones, a cherry Maggie and a Bog Oak IST, both top whorl spindles. They are expensive and precious to me. I am careful with them. […]
A couple of years ago I made this for Australian Sheep and Wool Show with some of my handspun yarn. Baby Lottie won a prize and as part of the prize, I received this hand dyed merino top from Fibres Yarns and Threads. I wasn’t quite sure what I was going to do with this. […]
One of the most pleasurable aspects to writing a blog about making things is when people share special handmade items with you. A couple of weeks ago, a friend lent me this extraordinary woven bag. This bag is so tough and strong, I am sure it could deflect lightening or survive a sandstorm. Seth had bought […]
