Pocahontas County Fare

I've finished the long-deferred quilt project at last! Here it is quilted but unbound. I hung it on the clothesline where I photographe...

I really enjoy dyeing fabric and fiber. This is a three-yard length of cotton/linen blend, dyed last summer. I can never resist tossing a f...

Here's my most recent knitting--socks from my crock-pot-dyed, hand-spun Rambouillet fleece. Several years ago, I decided that this nepp...

It's been a long time since I got out the fiber dyes...I'd like to get back to it. A new (to me) technique really caught my attentio...

Today is the anniversary of the 1863 Battle of Droop Mountain. The reenactors visited last month, when the weather is more likely to be pl...

Last weekend I made a new futon cover. It's hard to find fabric of any kind in these parts, so I ordered a length of cotton duck from D...

Here's a little more of that troublesome local fleece, dyed, carded, spun, and re-washed. It's interesting how much color differen...

I've been working on the Take It Further Challenge project for January, although I have no pictures to show my progress. I successfully...

The last few years, I've made an effort to make my fiber supplies more compact. I've sorted and used scrap fabrics in big projects...

In the spirit of something new for the new year, I've been experimenting with some unfamiliar sewing techniques. I've always been f...

I bought this Guatemalan wall hanging in Costa Rica in 1984, and recently, I decided it would be better used as a window quilt than folded ...

I've nearly finished NaBloPoMo 2007 , a group enterprise where members pledge to post at least one blog entry per day for the month of ...

This weekend's project has been dyeing some cotton jersey cut yardage. I wanted to duplicate the effects I got from "baggie dyeing...

You find fiber arts tutorials in the oddest places. This excellent tutorial, " How to Silkscreen Posters and Shirts " comes from N...

Last summer, in an attempt to "generate a new income stream," I decided to try dying silk velvet yardage and sew scarves from ...

Here's what I've been up to the last few days--dying some local (burdock-laden) fleece in the crockpot, carding, spinning and plyin...

In hat-knitting mode, I've been using up a small stash of Chelsea Silk (65% silk, 35% wool) in a sort of natural heathery brown-blue-r...