Category: Making

Fantastic robes

I want to make a robe – a robe of fantasy. This story could turn into something overly complicated. But I’ll make a start here anyway. I have a small collection of old books...

Finished concertina

This has seemed like a long project, but looking back I found I started it in mid-February. That’s only two and a half months, but months with lots of stitching time. The name of...

Landscape quilt – my large cloth

I never posted final photos of this project that I named the “landscape quilt” so here it is! I hastily assembled it in strips a winter ago, and to my surprise, it worked out....

Amulet

My second weaving project. I have wanted to make this amulet since I bought this loom and book, The Art of Weaving a Life, by Susan Barrett Merrill. I bought it at Fiber College,...

Crafting

A friend posted this on Facebook and I shared it. I don’t usually share this type of thing, but this just really hit home. Anyone looking at this blog would think I’m a victim...

A large cloth

I’m excited to be starting another journey with Jude Hill’s Patchwork in Perspective series. She’s hosting this third part, which relates to scale, including Large Cloth, at her spiritcloth blog directly, not in a...

Joining stitches 11 – 14

The joins are complete for now. 21 squares, seven strips of three. This has been a really worthwhile project. The sampler concept helped me overcome my anxiety about starting a new unknown stitch. I...