A week of very easily interrupted weaving has seen the next length of fabric finished.  I even managed to get it washed and dried, so once the recipients have chosen their lining fabric, I'll be in full sewing mode.

 It's actually a dark navy, both warp and weft, and is...

The warp featured in the last post has been woven off.  And yes, I did feel like an albatross weaving such a wide warp, but it went so smoothly that it wasn't too bad.

 It's a variable point twill, with a 1/3, 3/1 tie up and treadled as a five end advancing twill.  You...

I've been warping up the loom on and off all week.  It doesn't usually take me so long, but I've had a lot of meetings and other out of the studio things to do this week.  But I've got there and you can see how wide the warp is.  I'll be feeling like an albatross as I...

At the beginning of the year, the fabric weaving group that is a part of the Auckland Handweavers and Spinners Guild, (www.handweavers.org.nz) commissioned Agnes Hauptli, weaver extraordinaire, to write a course for us so that we learned more about using Fibreworks PCW...

I have been to Rotorua to attend the Creative Fibre Fesstival, which is an annual event hosted in different places in New Zealand each year.  This year the festival was Hosted by the Bay of Plenty area and held in Rotorua.

It was well attended and the Exhibition wa...

For a lot of weavers, colour is king.  I love colour, but I have also worked a lot with black and white, and in my most recent pieces, white on white.  I really enjoy this challenge as the structure of the fabric becomes more important.

I wove three diffr...

It's been a while since I've written a post. That's because I have been on a teaching road trip.  Firstly I went to Morrinsville and spent two days with 11 students teaching my Using drawing as a Springboard for Design course. 

We had a fantastic time and there wer...

A couple of weeks of sterling work has gone on and I have a studio I can bear to walk into.  It took a day to just file and sort all the paper and odds and ends that had been piled up.  Then it took another day to work through the rest of the accounts.  Dear Husband, w...

Welcome to my new blog on my updated, and much prettier website.  My last website somehow got swallowed up into the ether and just disappeared, so we've been working away since the end of last year to remodel the whole thing.  I'm really pleased with how it looks and j...