So while I was at the Carolina FiberFest, I spent some time with Carol Leigh Brack-Kaiser. I first met her last year at SAFF and saw her demo the continuous strand weaving method. I've been noodling on it ever since, trying hard to resist weaving, as yet another thing to be obsessed with ... but on seeing her again and having the same extreme MUST sort of response, I splurged on a travel-size triangle loom. Carol Leigh and her husband Denny were so generous with their time and knowledge. Here is the result of my first weaving, all with handspun I had lying around... I was so surprised how little yarn it took and how quickly it worked up.
**Narcissa among the hydrangeas.
In some ways it seems random to get into weaving right now, but also inevitable. And it is fitting in so well with some of the issues raised in Jude's Boro 2 class on clothing construction. To actually make cloth and with my own handspun in this new way, it feels like it's filling some huge gap in my fibery repertoire and understanding...
