My blog hasn't gotten a
lot of attention during February through April of this
year because I was a participating artist at Studio 210 in
The Neville Public Museum in Green Bay! I demonstrated and
worked on fiber arts projects from spinning to weaving and
some mixed media applications. I shared studio space with
renown kinetic mobile and sculpture artist,
Steven Haas.
Please click on his name to see his magnificent mobiles
and sculptures.
Here are the pictures
with descriptions of everything I worked on at the
museum's Studio 210:
The first thing I
brought in to work on was an acrylic, wool and mohair
blanket shawl. I prewarped the loom and started weaving at
home to make it easier because the warp for the blanket
shawl had to be done on a warp board. I call it a blanket
shawl because you can use it as a lap blanket or you can
wear it as a shawl. It's very soft and warm.
All the scarf projects
that follow were direct warped using a table that was in
the studio. I took all of the finished items home to wet
finish them as there was no water source (other than from
the public restrooms) in the studio.
I direct warped the loom
for a scarf with all handspun yarn. It was done in brown
Merino, red Mohair, and white Suffolk. The weft was
tangerine Suffolk fleece and was woven in as I spun the
yarn for it. The scarf was deliciously soft after wet
finishing and sold very quickly!
I direct warped the loom
again with handspun yarns for a scarf in red Merino, brown
Merino, and white Suffolk. The weft was woven with
tangerine Suffolk, red Merino, and white Suffolk. This
finished up very soft and fuzzy with a tartan plaid look
to it.
The last thing I wove on
my loom was a bamboo and cotton scarf. I direct warped the
loom with blue grey/white cotton (10/2). The weft was made
with handspun pima cotton in white/pink, cabled bamboo
yarn and handspun mohair. I wove this in tabby blocks and
in a basket weave on one side with floating threads for
about an inch on the other side. I very much enjoyed
weaving with the bamboo. It was the first time I'd tried
it and I'm impressed with how it weaves up and the
finished feel of it. The finished scarf is still in my
home studio because I like looking at it. The final
picture of this scarf shows both sides of it.
I built a frame for
tapestry weaving and started a quadrilateral tapestry on
black. I used #20 cotton for the warp and I'm using
acrylics (black, orange, yellow peach), handspun mohair
(green, purple, violet), and fun fur (red, blue) in soumac
weave.
