Several weavers took advantage of a field trip today, so there was only the skeleton crew at the Center today. Alice is busy threading her loom today. Kris is weaving steadily, Carol is keeping a look out for anyone needing help. Karin is taking advantage of the quietness of the room by working on the library, and Marilyn has a commitee helping her add some heddles to her loom, and Rhonda is weaving fabric for more Christmas bowl cozies. We didn't have any show and tell today but I do have 2 special orders that need to get done. One special order is a scaled down version of our Ellen's p ..read more

I got some pictures of weavers and their work to show you today. Roxy, our newest weaving student is weaving on her own Dorothy loom, and it is the cloth and pattern that the was already on the loom. Whe she brought it in we were puzzling over how to get the fabric with the threading that was on the loom. Roxy remembered that there was a piece of paper on the loom that she had left at home! We were thrilled when her husband sent her a picture of the treadling! Kathy another student has cut off her latest project on her loom. Rhonda, another one of our newish students has been loom hopping ..read more

It was another busy day in the Studio this week! Karin and I were putting the finishing touches on her new loom, and Mark and Judith were working on their respective projects, and Pat wasn't with us this week, so I took a picture of her latest rug on the Barn Frame Loom. Liz came to the end of her towel warp and Susan #3 is winding more weft for her "Ellen's Pattern" placemats. Carol (our fearless leader!) is modeling one of the many ways she has found to work with the textured and many colored fabric we have been weaving in the studio recently. Carol and Patty have been winding warps h ..read more

Karin and I worked on getting her Ashford table loom together today. We had some help along the way but we didn't quite get it finished! We still have to put the beater assembly together, but by 3pm we were beat! We will finish up next week and post more photos! (Oh, and we basically took over the kitchen area!) I was very much occupied with the above project and some really nice weavers took my phone and got a few pictures of Jenny taking her project off of the loom. While all that was happening there was a Bowl Cozie sewing bonanza going on, of which I got absolutely no pictures! (Sorr ..read more

We had a great show this past weekend! I was heading home after we took the booth down and realized what a bad blogger I was! I didn't get a single picture of the booth even though I thought about it as I was working on Sunday!!! I hoped that someone had taken some pictures and wouldn't you know it, Mark came to the rescue once again! Here are a couple of pictures of the booth right after set up and a picture of the bowl cozy warp that was on the demonstration loom. Sunday, while several of us were working the booth, we got the idea to do a bowl cozy warp using Christmas colors. I volunte ..read more

I got some pictures of some of the shawls being modeled and a couple of pictures of the bottle Gift Wrap Towels. First Judith and Jenny are giving us a great look at the Shawls that came from the fabric woven over the last month or so. Then Betsy wound some cord for her Gift Wrap Towels. This morning it was time to take inventory of the Tuesday Weavers items for the show this weekend! Marie was sick this morning so we all scrambled to make up the difference! Get better Marie! The first picture is of Patty and I entering the tag numbers onto a spreadsheet so that I could send it to Marie ..read more

(I wasn't in town last week and Mark sent me photos from last week as well as a couple from this week that happend before I arrived. So I thought I would mix them up in a way that seems right to me, I make no claim that it will make sense to anyone else as Jet Lag still has a strong influence on me today!) Last week there was the fabric that I had woven off and that Patty had woven and there was a third piece that I don't remember who had woven it.. This week we have finished or almost finished garments! Oh and Carol is showing us a pink scarf this week that Karin was twisting the fringe on ..read more

We had reason to celebrate on Tuesday this week! Our dear Karin has retired from her day job! I have talked to her since Tuesday and she has been enjoying her first week of freedom! Patty was busy all morning rinsing hand dyed warps and skeins from Dye Day. Having the spin dryer really helps! I caught several people doing weaving related things this morning. Laura was checking her towels for errors, Erin, one of the students has moved up to the direct tie wolf pup and Pat was busy at the Barn Frame Loom, oh, and Rhonda cut her first project off of the loom!!!!! Last week Carol wound a warp ..read more

While I wait for my computer to recognize the photos from Tuesday, I thought I would post some pictures from last weeks Dye Day. There was quite the crew that took part of all the fun, Carol, Jenny, Judith, Rhonda (I think), Patty, Kris and Charlotte were all there. (I hope I got everybody!) Thursday was a bigger crew than Friday, but they got a lot done! Now for Fridays fun! That is it for last weeks Dye Day, I'll try to get a post about Tuesday tomorrow, til then this is Tina for all ..read more

We were full to bursting this week in the Weaving Studio that is at the Appalachian Arts Craft Center, located in Norris, TN. Every Tuesday we have a busness meeting after lunch, so I thought I would insert here a few pictures of the crew today. As soon as I got to the weaving studio, I saw Phyllis and Shirely hard at work getting this lovely warp on Shirley's loom! Irene is working on some bags using a boundweave technique. She loves that you can do so many things with the same threading! Patty is weaving some fabric with a colorful warp and a nubbly weft. Judith and Mark are back wit ..read more