fiber art is sacred work

Another scrap yarn spiral I had been working on this past while. This one is made of dark blues, black with gold, grey with white, and an earth-toned multicolour. ☾࿐༄࿔.

Haul from one of the annual big wool shows!

Lots of fibre braids! There's some nice wool blends, some green silk, some Hebridean and Manx laoghtan (new for me!).

Some 200gm wool and cotton balls from the local woollen mill, and skeins from local dyers and growers

Some crochet Critters

Trinkets include some more lace bobbins, some paper Crane stitch markers, a little 3D printed box with some free stitch markers pieces inside, and a case/cover for dpns

If you get into white work embroidery, you might discover cutwork. And when you start doing cutwork, you might get curious about incorporating detached elements. And before you know it the fabric is gone, you are making needle lace, and there goes the rest of your week.

Buttonhole stitch - not even once.

every once in a while you will come across a designer who really runs with it, makes it their mission to showcase exactly what one can do with knitting

Scalindra

Sun King

Fairly Squarely

Thrills with Frills

Da Vinci Wings

Tassel Dazzle

Helix Felicis

Batman & Robin

Wizard Lizard

Lindworm

That's not even all of them. I'm not a huge fan of the term fibre art but this really is it. Wearable art. Look at the geometry of it all! The structure, the chaos, the whimsy! God I love modular knitting

Diné Weaver Venancio Aragón

"From researching historic twill patterns in museum collections to dyeing wool with Kool-Aid, Diné (Navajo) weaver and instructor Venancio Aragón interlocks research and experimentation to expand the visual and technical vocabularies of Diné weaving. Working on the Diné upright loom, Aragón is part of a generation of Diné weavers who reinterpret ancestral knowledge through experimentation, carrying the medium forward on their own terms. As he stated in our interview with him, “I am not a purist.”

Based in Farmington, New Mexico, Aragón is trained in cultural anthropology and Native American and Indigenous studies, currently teaching at Diné College, the Navajo Nation’s tribal college. Before transitioning to full-time weaving and teaching, Aragón worked as an interpretive park ranger at the Mesa Verde, Aztec Ruins, Bandelier, and Petroglyph National Monuments, where he led tours and developed public education initiatives. He was born to the Tó’aheedlíinii (The Water Flow Together People) clan and born for the Naakaii (Mexican people). His maternal grandfather is of the Tsénahabiłnii (Sleeping Rock) clan, and his paternal grandfather is of the Naakaii (Mexican people)."

In 2017 I started learning how to dye raw fleeces. This was my first ever dye pot on a blue faced Leicester x wensleydale fleece.

Pattern: whitebark pine by Sylvia McFadden stillness of trees ebook