I have been knitting for about 12 years and I have played around with weaving and natural dying. I studied photography for many years, and I love how fiber arts compliments photography as one is much about seeing, and the other is about touch and feeling. I was strongly influenced in the fiber arts by doing a work-study program at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC and by working at the Green Mountain Spinnery in Putney, VT. I deepened my appreciation for learning the art of crafts that are both creatively expansive and wonderfully practical and warm. I used to be a sweatshirt kind of person, and I loved to knit so I made sweaters and they sat in drawers unworn. After a few seasons in Vermont, I have grown to love the sweaters I have made, how warm they are and how colorful I feel even in a gray February day. I love knowing that the clothes I wear come straight from the sheep, and I strongly support yarn companies that use as little processing as possible, local and organic wools, and environmentally-conscious practices. I will occasionally think about custom orders - but I warn you, fair isle sweaters in sport-weight yarn aren't really my cup of tea! I prefer worsted weights in nice wooly yarns that still smell like sheep.
Fiber Places I support:
Peace Fleece :
http://peacefleece.com
Green Mountain Spinnery :
http://spinnery.com
Hope Spinnery :
http://www.hopespinnery.com/
Mountain Fiber Folk :
http://mtfiberfolk.com/index.html
Harrisville Designs :
http://www.harrisville.com/
John C. Campbell Folk School :
https://www.folkschool.org/
Vermont Sheep and Wool Festival :
http://vtsheepandwoolfest.org/index.html
Beanies and more Beanies - You can't have too many
My favorite fingerless gloves - Noro Yarn
The simplest fingerless gloves - Hope Spinnery Yarn
Peace Fleece's "Old Friend" Sweater - I could knit dozens of these, and probably will, two more in the works now. They are the most comfortable and basic sweater, and I simply love the smell of wooly Peace Fleece yarn.
The Spinnery Jacket designed by Claire at the Green Mountain Spinnery.
Woven beginnings on a table loom - weft-facing pattern sampler
