Men’s knitting retreat: an act of creativity
The idea of creativity invokes arts, crafts and design. We usually use it to describe an individual or small group of collaborators who…
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The first Men’s Knitting Retreat North unfolds
Something remarkable happens when men get together and play with fibre. The first Men’s Knitting Retreat North kicked off yesterday afternoon with an…
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Amy Tyler: the creative process
Amy Tyler’s talk on Sunday at Ontario Handweavers and Spinners biennial conference gave me pause to reassess my creative process. For a brief…
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Amy Tyler: connections through a Petoskey stone
Designer Amy Tyler invokes the Petoskey stone, an important symbol of creative thinking for many artists.
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Intensely unfocused: core spinning a gray treefrog
It was a big craft weekend. Dyeing fibre with mountain-ash leaves was not our only project. While Danny developed a new design for…
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Natural dye from mountain-ash leaves
American mountain-ash (Sorbus americana) leaves provide an excellent natural dye in coppery-gold colours. This plant does not often arise in discussions of natural…
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My hot autumn colour scarf
A few weeks ago I posted about handspinning outside the comfort zone. I set out to create some lively yarn concentrating on reds,…
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Lorraine Roy’s fabric art inspired this handspun hat
I made this hat for my friend, fabric artist Lorraine Roy, based on one of her works, “Tobermory sunset”. Her pieces are perhaps…
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Handspinning outside the comfort zone
Red is outside my comfort zone. I created these skeins of handspun yarn over the past week. I have been working from photographs,…
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Core spinning: painting with fibre
Now I am painting with fibre and having so much fun, it is probably illegal in Russia. In a recent workshop with Lisa…
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