The Yellow Dress
Recently I was designing and sewing a dress for myself for my son’s wedding. (No, I did not weave the fabric.)
The fabrics I used were silk, cotton batiste, cotton voile, and silk organza. Silk as the fashion fabric with the cotto...
Part 3
This blog is hard for me to write. I so wanted to keep Covid and the word “Covid” out of my weaving life, but I can’t do that here.The tablecloth was finished with 12 matching napkins and mailed in time for my brother’s Easter Celebration meal with his family in 2020. Then Covid hit. My ...
If you read my blog "Why Weaving?", then you know how I started weaving, so I’d like to tell you how I started my weaving business. It all started because I wanted a picket fence around my garden. Now I’m not talking about a cute little fence (well, it is cute because it’s only three feet high with...
Part 2
“Never Give Up-part 1” ended with my client taking pictures of his dining room to help me come up with a design style for his custom handwoven tablecloth.In the process of all the emails and pictures being sent back and forth, my client sent me a picture of a handwoven tablecloth that was...
Part 1
This is a journal of the ins and outs—and the trials and errors—of designing and weaving process of a custom tablecloth I was commissioned to weave.It really starts with what the customer wants, and hopefully they have a pretty good idea of that! I wasn’t so lucky on that score with this ...
You might ask....
What I wrote in my opening blog, “Let the Blogging Begin” was mainly for me to vent about grammar, try to improve my writing skills, and how I started my blog. So now let me tell you how I got started weaving. No more venting. This is about weaving not writingI have a degree i...
So I want to write a weaving blog. And what do I do instead? I take an online English grammar class just to learn where to put a comma. Granted this is important but, OMG!What does parallel sentences, simple perfect progressive tenses and other English terminology have to do with writing a blog? I m...
