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Back mend

Back mend


Cowboy quilt mend

Cowboy quilt mend


Top side fish

Top side fish


Rainbow fish

Rainbow fish


Brown fish

Brown fish


Black mend

Black mend


Heart flag

Heart flag

Woven paper and a woven heart merged in photo shop elements.


Silk close up

Silk close up

Purple in front is silk gauze, multi-colored silk is gauze like, light blue is a silk/hemp mix, bright blue is probably something like silk charmeuse, the plaid is a silk/cotton blend.


Silk sampler

Silk sampler

A variety of silks from my stash, woven into a cotton base.


Knit weave

Knit weave

Knit salvaged from a t-shirt. A bit of cotton and silk woven in.


Crochet weave

Crochet weave

Crocheting a woven pattern on top of a knit sweater.


Weave into sleeve

Weave into sleeve

weaving a strip or two into the sleeve of a sweater.


blanket in progress

blanket in progress

Two wool blankets that had seen better days...a third for the base.


Denim seat cover

Denim seat cover

Weaving a seat cover with denim scraps leftover from a skirt and the legs of a pair of jeans.


wool weaving #2

wool weaving #2

I knit a square from wool, wove roving into a square pattern, did some needle stitching and stitching with wool yarn to secure and then tossed in the wash.


wool weaving #1

wool weaving #1

I pre-felted a checkerboard pattern with roving and then stitched to a square that I had knit and felted/fulled. The whole thing was tossed in the washing machine.


weaving with hand dyed velvet

weaving with hand dyed velvet


sample for sewing

sample for sewing

I wanted to see how this would wash up. It's a denim base, the blue is linen/rayon, the green linen, and the print a rayon. The print was cut twice the width I wanted, sewn wrong side to wrong side and then stitched down with the seam to the bottom. It washed up without any fray.


playing ball

playing ball

Working on mending a quilt that my mother made me when I was a child. I've added a woven ball for the dolls.


creating patterns.

creating patterns.

I'd say it's for Jude (Spirit Cloth) to share how this is done...I'm going to make a quilt with little squares like this some day...


black and white

black and white

Woven with hand dyed raw silk


spring weaving

spring weaving

White on white sample (slightly tinged white) is raw silk and wool.

Leaf is cotton and silk gauze. I used a crewel needle to pull the silk through. The nine patch is less than an inch in size.


the sock pillow

the sock pillow

Pillow woven from socks that I'd worn holes in. Strips were cut from everything but the toe and heel. The socks were all run through the washing machine to shrink (felt/full).


a woven patch for many moons

a woven patch for many moons


woven patch for many moons #2

woven patch for many moons #2


fish and woven sea grass

fish and woven sea grass

I can visualize an entire pillow down of little fish in a repeating pattern of some sort...


In a circle

In a circle

Flower? Starfish? Fabric cut into shapes before being woven.


weaving the fringe

weaving the fringe

I cut a fringe into the bottom of this piece of knit fabric and then wove strips of chambray in.


hand dye and denim

hand dye and denim

I tore strips of raw silk, rolled them into a coil and then placed them in a low dye bath so that they weren't completely submerged.


wool and silk

wool and silk

One of my first weaving experiments...hand dyed wool and a few pieces of silk gauze.


inspired by spring

inspired by spring

linen (blue), purchased hand dyed (green) and my hand dye (brown).


stitches as weaving

stitches as weaving

I wove silk gauze through the holes of a wash cloth knit from hemp.