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Nefertiti Wrap

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Back in January, I had the delight and pleasure of meeting Miriam Felton, designer of the lovely Icarus shawl from Interweave. She told me that after TNNA she was going to embark on turning her knit design endeavours into her full time livelihood. I was so inspired and encouraged to hear this and wished her well. So when I got back from TNNA, I pinged her on Ravelry and said that I’d like to send her some yarn… see if she’d like something to play with. I ended up sending her a few skeins of CashSilk Lace and she ended up making this…

It’s called the Nefertiti Wrap and takes about 2 skeins of CashSilk Lace. I do love the diagonal design to it… and also how it’s not a single lace pattern throughout. One lace patterns flows and melds into the next. Very very lovely.

Nefertiti Wrap

I’m thinking about Nefertiti this afternoon as I collect my things and thoughts, on my way to speaking tonight for the Coquitlam Weavers & Spinners Guild. Public speaking always makes me intensely nervous, so I hope I don’t lose my voice, insult anyone, or make any other major gaffs… I’ll be talking about natural dyeing among other things. We’re starting at about 7 pm at Place des Arts. Fingers crossed that everything goes well. Yay.

Tags: cashsilk lace, Coquitlam Guild, Miriam Felton, Nefertiti Wrap, place des arts
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Spinning round and round.

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

It’s another one of those oddly creative days again where I’m running between spinning these scrumptious silk and merino singles, natural dyeing in a zillion pots on the stove in the kitchen, and doing my accounting.

From left to right: Wensleydale, Merino + Silk… and more Merino + Silk. Almost ready for plying back on itself.

Then I look up and realize that there is a half-dressed loom staring at me. I’m also thinking about what to weave next and how to get the current projects off the looms so that we can begin the Weaving Workshop sessions in a weeks time (yikes!). And finally, I’m going to be speaking for the Coquitlam Spinners & Weavers Guild on Thursday, May 14th about what I have been doing here in the studio with natural dyes, naturally dyed yarns, and weaving. So over the next three months, I’m going to be taking all new photographs of the studio space and the daily work I am doing at the dye pot and loom. It’s exciting to have something to work towards.

Waaay further down the road, I’m hoping to attend Interweave’s SOAR fall retreat for the first time. It’s being held at Sunriver Resort in Oregon from October 25 to November 1st. Oregon is pretty close to Vancouver and I’m thinking about driving down… maybe a stop for a bit of surf along the way. Anybody else planning on going to SOAR this year?

Tags: Coquitlam Guild, SOAR
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