Many of my fellow weavers have been creating such beautiful fabric using the deflected double weave structure. To be honest, I’ve been a little intimidated with this structure. It took some time for me to wrap my head around that, with a certain tie up, you could actually weave two…
I’m so fortunate that both my daughters live near me and both have recently taken an interest in learning to weave. Both Kassie and Lizzie are married and just starting families of their own as well as many of their friends. So, of course, they want to weave baby blankets.…
I have so many sweet memories of Christmas as a child. I was so fortunate to have wonderful grandparents on both sides of my family who lived relatively close. My sister and I would spend time with my Grandma Bartosiewicz for a few days and then our family would spend…
It’s funny how an object can elicit so many memories. For me, one of those objects is this handwoven Christmas tree which my grandmother hung in her home during the holidays. My grandmother was a prolific weaver and then also a collector of fiber arts items. When my grandparents passed,…
I’ve been wanting to make myself bath towels for quite some time. Throughout the years I’ve experimented with different weave structures and different cottons to see what would work best. I really wanted the towel to have texture so I played a lot with waffle weave, but couldn’t come up…
Oh my goodness! I’m about to have a brand new grand baby in just a few weeks. Yes, we already know the gender and our little one has a name- Archie. Archie will be our second grandchild and the first child of our youngest daughter and her husband. We are…
Humm…why in the world would anyone weave burp cloths? That’s going to be one spoiled grandchild. It sounds a little crazy, but I decided the best way to sample an upcoming project would be, in fact, to weave burp cloths. At least I know the samples would be put to…
