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Spinning

I bought a little spinning wheel. It’s about the size of an SLR camera and weighs a fraction as much. It came from a Kickstarter campaign I backed. I paid about $50 and like my other favourite Kickstarter reward, it

Miranda July 18, 2018July 31, 2018 Fibre arts, Main 2 Comments

Temari

I’d never heard of them until a couple of weeks ago when a booklet of college extension courses and workshops showed up and mentioned a weekend class teaching this “beautiful Japanese art of decorative embroidered thread balls.” I was curious, so

Miranda January 21, 2015February 3, 2016 Creativity, Fibre arts, Main No Comments

Shibori

Inspired by the introduction to shibori that Fiona got at her homeschoolers’ art class, I began sewing and tying a couple of dozen squares of cotton fabric to do my own experiment with the technique. I started this in July

Miranda March 16, 2014February 3, 2016 Creativity, Fibre arts, Main 2 Comments

Fall bits

Where has October gone? Where has my blogging mojo gone? My additional teaching load, and all the juggling of travel and activities by Noah and Sophie, is taking a toll. Fall was amazing until the rain finally caught up with

Miranda November 3, 2012February 3, 2016 Creativity, Fibre arts, Homeschooling, Main, Mathematics, Running, The Natural World

Shibori

I’ve decided that the time has come to make a quilt. I made quilts for each of my children, around the time they graduated to big beds of their own. Erin got my first quilt ever: appliquéd jungle animals in

Miranda July 2, 2012February 3, 2016 Creativity, Fibre arts, Main

Festivus Owls

Fiona’s sick. Getting better today, but we decided we needed to bail on running the taxi service for all those teenagers going to Corazón rehearsal in Nelson. Instead we had an unexpected day at home together. And thanks to my

Miranda December 13, 2011February 3, 2016 Creativity, Family Matters, Fibre arts, Main

Brioche knitting

Simple two-colour brioche (top) and Hosta leaf pattern (bottom) I had never heard of brioche knitting, but the first couple of examples I saw looked so nifty that I had to figure it out. I started trying to learn while

Miranda October 16, 2011February 3, 2016 Creativity, Fibre arts, Main

Tie-dye, family reunion edition

Noah’s, Evie’s and my shirts. The sunshine and clear skies have been made to order for our reunion time. Sophie risked using a “dangerous colour combination” on her shirt: dark green, purple and yellow. It looked like a moldy cabbage

Miranda August 29, 2011February 3, 2016 Creativity, Family Matters, Fibre arts, Main

Part way to a squillion

Many of the SVI students and parents took up knitting squares for the Knit-a-Squillion project. We ended up with a few dozen, some still needing completion. We’ll continue to work away at this into the fall and then arrange to

Miranda August 11, 2011February 3, 2016 Community, Fibre arts, Main

Needle bouquet

This makes me happy. 

Miranda July 24, 2011February 3, 2016 Creativity, Fibre arts, Main

Knit a squillion

We found out about the Knit-a-squillion challenge yesterday and Sophie, Fiona and I are nearing completion of our first three squares. The challenge is to contribute knitted or crocheted 8″ (-ish) squares to as aid for AIDS orphans in South

Miranda July 21, 2011February 3, 2016 Fibre arts, Main

The dress II

Sophie has set to work with the fabric for her dress. After tracing pattern pieces the other afternoon she had to wait for me to get out of town and purchase thread. Fortunately Erin’s departure for Calgary was well-timed, the

Miranda March 12, 2010February 3, 2016 Creativity, Fibre arts, Living simply, Main

Genesis of a cardinal

Some readers were interested in more details about how we’re making these birds. We’re less than a week into this experiment with needle felting and are totally self-taught, but for what it’s worth, here’s how we’re doing it. We start

Miranda January 6, 2010February 3, 2016 Creativity, Fibre arts, Main

More avian friends

Today’s birdies are a red-breasted nuthatch, more than a little on the obese side, and a tree swallow. We didn’t have these colours available to us in wool roving, so we dissected several bits of multicoloured wool yarn to get

Miranda January 3, 2010February 3, 2016 Creativity, Fibre arts, Main

Felted birds

  Sophie and I have been needle-felting today. We decided these guys might make nice Christmas tree decorations for next year. We still need to buy some little beads or bead-end push pins for eyes, and some pipe cleaners for

Miranda January 3, 2010February 3, 2016 Creativity, Fibre arts, Main
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