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  • More Twill Towels 🙂

    January 4, 2026 by

    Now that I’ve given all my end-of-year gifts, I can post my work over the past many months! This year I got into weaving and doing dish towels felt approachable and they’re a classic weaver’s project. I’ve posted some that I already worked on here, and then started getting ideas… First was to pull colors… Read more

  • Autumn Projects

    November 9, 2025 by

    I’ve mainly been working on New Years gifts recently, so here are some sneak peeks: I jumped at the chance to go to the Grand Tetons again with family and did some fun watercolor: I wove my first “log cabin” pattern using handspun accent yarn and yellow commercial cotton, bravely cut it into strips, and… Read more

  • Colorado River Art Retreat

    August 8, 2025 by

    This lil postcard features the Grand Ditch, a water diversion structure that takes water from the tops of the Never Summer Mountains on the *west* side of the Continental Divide and ports it to the Cache la Poudre River, leading to the South Platte River. Part of this trip was dedicated to feeling some civil-engineering-and-climate-change-related… Read more

  • Musical Table Runner

    July 6, 2025 by

    The yarns for this project were inspired by Sky Loom, a Native North American poem set to music by Jean Ford Belmont. Oh our Mother the Earth, weave for us.Oh our Father the Sky,Weave for us a garment of brightness;May the warp be the white light of morning,May the weft be the red light of… Read more

  • Crochet Bog Sweater

    June 18, 2025 by

    I started this project in the spring of 2023 as a way of using up scrap yarn and having a simple, easy hand-project for nights on the couch and zoom calls. I wanted to play with changing colors and having interesting color work while keeping the texture (crochet stitches) constant throughout. I did a simple… Read more

  • First Overshot Weaving

    March 29, 2025 by

    So my desk is under a window, and throughout the day, the sun blinds me. I have a bunch of plants in the window, so I don’t like lowering the entire window shade. I’ve been balancing an umbrella on my windowsill plants and computer monitor… But I needed something better. I decided to weave a… Read more

  • Rest Quilt

    March 21, 2025 by

    My front door is not completely airtight. I tried getting some foam strips to put inside the doorframe, but then I couldn’t close the door. I thought about, and started, a crochet tube that I could hang on the hinges to block the most air from getting in… But in the end, I decided a… Read more

  • Second Adventures in Table Loom Weaving

    March 18, 2025 by

    Twill towels Pillow It was very rhythmic, weaving the same pattern over and over again. I started using an eight-sided die to keep track of which line I was on, and just wove and wove and wove. And I used all the yarn I frogged! Projects completed early 2025.

  • Rocky Mountain Art Retreat

    February 6, 2025 by

    The Teewinot art retreat went so well, I decided to do another more local to me. And I think I’ll keep doing these. I stayed at the YMCA in Estes Park and spent a long weekend drawing, painting, doing crafts 🙂 The YMCA has a whole craft center and you can make glass items! I… Read more

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