Have you ever picked up an issue of Handwoven Magazine or looked at a photo of a woven item and thought, “I’d never weave that.” I remember receiving the May/June 2019 issue of Handwoven and looking at the cover photo of these dotted hand towels (Circles and Checks Towels in…
I’ve been wanting to make bath towels for a while now. I just haven’t found the right structure or pattern that worked. Well, that’d would be up until now. For the past two years I’ve been taking online weaving classes through Jane Stafford’s School of Weaving. The classes are amazing…
Sometimes you just need a little inspiration. I was in a creative lull when I walked past my neighbor’s beautiful garden with these cone flowers in full bloom. My neighbor, Mark, and his wife, Cathy, are master gardeners and their yard is often full of flowers that change with the…
I have a near total aversion to math. I have many childhood memories of sitting at the kitchen table doing my math homework with my dad in tears. I was definitely an English Language Arts student who loved to write poetry, and as I became older, gravitated more towards the…
Oh the ever popular Strickler 728. I’ve seen so many very cool projects using this pattern in the Facebook group Strickler In Color that I just couldn’t wait to give it a try. A Weaver’s Book of 8 Shaft Patterns edited by Carol Strickler contains patterns specifically for 8 shaft…
