enjoying Spring
April 16, 2013
not much weaving being done! the garden is calling, the sun is shining – and this weekend is my studio tour which means I’m in clean-up mode!
but the spinning goes on – finished all the cotton and plyed it with Bryan’s reeled silk, dyed with kakishibu
good guessing,there was only a couple metres of the silk remaining
next is a silk/yak blend – one of my students gave me as a “thank you” for teaching her to spin
it is like a cloud, incredibly soft and the colour of mist
I’ve been doing some sashiko stitching on a scrap of indigo dyed linen
it will make a small shifuku
now back to the sunshine
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to me spring is more stitching than weaving. besides gardening and lots of dyeing.
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Neki – cold Spring this year so when the sun shines I want to be outside.
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Every time I think I can’t be surprised… the sashiko is lovely.
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the cotton is subtle and lovely! did you spin the reeled silk at all or just plied it with the cotton as is? the shifu you spun earlier is making me drool; i’ll make time to practice spinning such finally cut paper one of these days. i’m still working on a bit of silk/camel i started awhile ago; you’ll enjoy the silk/yak immensely!
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Renee – I started stitching at the age of 3, hand stitching is meditative and very satisfying
Anastasia – don’t have to spin reeled silk, it is very smooth and strong. The shifu is 8 full sheets of paper, I have plans for it. The kiraku kozo paper is wonderful to work with.
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ALL of it is giddy-making!! the spring, the cleaning, the spinning, the gifts. i wish i could visit open studio!!
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Aimee – Spring makes me giddy and the sunshine and the flowers
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All those little balls of overspun cotton make me giddy. And the 2-ply with Bryan’s silk turned out gorgeous! What a lovely misty fuzz.
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Kristin – or fuzzy mist, a bit giddy myself!
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