Blast from the Past

Here's Will and me demonstrating spinning at the Antelope Valley Fair in 1990. Will is seven here. He's spinning on my turkish spindle -- actually winding up the wool he's spun. He also carded for me. We're dressed in SCA garb. 8-]

Tree & Moon

This is a piece of digital art, a distortion of a photograph of a rock. ;- j I love doing this. And trees and moons are a recurring theme of mine.

I think this one would make a particularly striking tapestry. 8-]

I wonder how difficult it would be to duplicate the metalic fluid effect?

Fiber Retreat 09

Joey hard at work. ;-]




Courney and Cora and a pal.






A couple tent city pics.







I remembered to pull out my camera during my classes this time. ;- j














A happy weaver. ;-] Glad you liked the class, Dawn.





Some more tapestries at the show & tell. I thought I was having deja vu seeing "my" tapestry all over the place. ;-b












Eowyn really took to the mud dyeing. I liked her indigo over-dye. Kewl idea.








Mud dye amongst the show & tell.




Just can't get away from that paleo-theme. ;- j




Baskets and more mud dye. 8-]



Here's my brazilwood and kamala offerings. Meager things, but mine own.




Tent city and the exhausted dye station.




Astra's Bjo tapestry project in the process.







Tie dye! Looks like a fun class Ercil. ;-]










This was just too much fun. I'm pooped. Wish I'd taken more pics. But I was just too busy having fun!

Other photo sites:
Lauri:
www.flickr.com/photos/25463531@N06/sets/72157619331093737/
Carol:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/carolspinner/sets/72157619389674566/
Jennifer Tan:
http://www.syrendell.blogspot.com/
Jennifer Kemp:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lady.ianuk/2009GriffinDyeWorksFiberAndDyeRetreat?feat=directlink , or http://tinyurl.com/mvocul
Terri:
http://tenderlovingwork.com/Site/Griffin_Dyeworks_Fiber_Retreat.html
Eowyn:
http://eowynsartifacts.livejournal.com/
Melissa:
http://lissamc.livejournal.com/275345.html#cutid1.
Ercil:
http://mixed-upmelange.blogspot.com/2009_05_01_archive.html
Catherine:
http://picasaweb.google.com/CatherinedeWinter
Eilidh:
http://gallery.griffindyeworks.com/v/2009-retreat/

Spin, Ply & Dye

Eilidh showed me how to spin and ply from a single drop spindle at the Fiber Retreat this weekend. W00t! That's a kewl trick.

I bought a wool/bamboo blend from Camelion Colorworks to play with. After a spun and plied a small hank, I dropped it in the kamala pot to dye it. I'll send it along to Astra via Bruce at work for her Tapestry project.

I was really pressed for time at the end -- I dunked it in the only pot I could find on Sun. morning. ;- j Otherwise I might have overdyed it with indigo to make a more useful green.