Sea Change

The ocean warms, absorbing the heat of our folly. Ice melts, fish die, sea rises, coastlines change.  Sea Change is a four panel tapestry woven as a reflection of the inevitable sea level rise brought about by climate change and the swell of inevitable grief that change will bring in its wake. 

This tapestry piece is woven of handspun gradient wool on a wool warp. The weft is spun from superwash domestic wool that fades from browns and greys to blues and greens and into turquoise. It was woven in 2019 and is currently available in the shop.

Halloween Roundup!

Some year, I will find myself approaching the night when the veil between the worlds is at its thinnest and I will be pulling scarves and bags off of my loom in colorways dedicated to the three witches in Macbeth or to the legendary medieval flying salves as a celebration of this particularly witchy time of year.

Alas, that year is not this year. The studio is deep in the midst of transition and my timing in seasonal projects is as abjectly off kilter as it ever was.

However, I do have a seasonal thing or three floating around the shop so if seasonal crafting is your happy place, click through and take a look.

There’s one single solitary candy corn stitch marker left. I adore candy corn, and now that I’m having to avoid commercial chocolate due to dairy intolerances, I’m even more fond of it. I know, them’s fighting words apparently.

Halloween Spice on Snowy Day Sock Yarn

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This is a one of a kind skein on an eco processed organic merino sport weight yarn

Hallowe’en is a catch-all collection of one of a kind skeins intuitively dyed in shades of purple, black, and orange.

Samhain on Snowy Day Sock

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Potions inspired one of a kind braid of superwash merino/tencel

One of a kind braid of superwash merino/tencel inspired by cauldrons full of bubbling potions.

The Potions collection is inspired by bubbling cauldrons and dyed intuitively in shades of green of purple for one of a kind results.

Wishing you a Blessed Samhain and a Happy Halloween.

Ombre as weft element: a cowl on Surfacing

This was a super fun cowl to weave.  I'd been saving up a very special yarn remnant to use as weft on it for months....

You may remember, way back last summer, I dyed the warp for Unconditional.  It was my entry for the Great Competition of Weavers at IBC Atlanta: the themed competition required an ombre and/or monochrome element in the submission.  Well, the structure I used required what is known as parallel threading - every other warp thread being color A and every other warp thread being color B.  One color was a deep maroon of mother's love, and the other warp color was an ombre grad from mostly blues to mostly greens.  The cakes of yarn are pictured above.  As I wound the warp, I wound the leftover bits onto a pirn to save for this project.  So the ombre that goes warp wise on Unconditional became an ombre that goes weft-wise on this cowl on Surfacing.

I love that the shift from blues to greens speaks to the heart of Surfacing, to that liminal space between the depths of the sea and the verdant hills above.  

This cowl is 100% long staple Egyptian cotton that is super soft and soapy.  It is one of the only pieces that will be publicly available in the shop off of the full Surfacing warp, although I may sneak in a scarf-only warp in the Surfacing colorways because there is just so much I want to play with!