Deanne Fitzpatrick » Entries tagged with "wool"
Does wool do this to you?
This post got lost last week when I transferred servers so here it is again…too good too loose I work with Brenda. She is serious and kind and lovely and she can turn her hand at anything. I am jealous of her that way…..the way she can do everything…but still I love her cause she shares her talent..She looks like this sometimes… Then last week when I came back to the studio with a pile of wool she  changed … Read entire article »
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Five Bags of Wool
Dear Diary, My friend Delia came to visit for an impromptu visit this week while blog reader Betty Heath was visiting the studio. I think Delia gives new meaning to the term” five bags full” from the nursery rhyme. She dyed me some beautiful wool as she always did. She was on a road trip so I jumped in with her for the ride. Remember those pictures of Brenda, well they got lost when I … Read entire article »
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Fleece Artist feathers my nest
Dear Diary, some people do things so well. For years I have sold yarns from the fleece wrist. Today I visited her website and saw this beautiful image that I thought you might enjoy. I have really enjoyed watching people do interesting things with yarn in photography. At Christmas the fleece wrist sent out a card with yarn in martini glasses. It was playful, then Brenda and I spotted this image on their website of … Read entire article »
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5 skeins of slub yarn
Dear Diary, I have the list for the online rug hooking course compiled. Yipppee..yippee ..yippee. One yippee just was not enough. Since January first I have been adding names like crazy, making texture packets like a mad woman, and tormenting Brenda, Norma, Katherine, and Lorna to work extra hours. God bless them, Â they did. I would have been lost with out such flexible organized people to work with. We all need a treat, an outing … Read entire article »
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clearing
final stages…a wall to hang a rug on so long dark cupboards. I loved you once. my good man and I did this in about two hours, our first diy project in twenty years. We’re not that handy. Welcome skinny white shelves… Thank you Ronnie, you are such a good neighbor, and you’re so handy Dear Diary, After the past few days of reorganizing the studio, thanks to Ronnie who built my shelves, and Robert who helped mea tear out … Read entire article »
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wool dying
Dear Diary, My sister in law Jeanette is traveling and it seems she thought of me when she saw these women dying wool for their weaving. They were so beautiful I thought I would share them here with you. … Read entire article »
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beauty reminds me…..
Dear Diary,here is a recent peek at the studio. Brenda does a lot of the “making pretty” . I do some. I think that when you walk in here it is our job to make you want to create, and so we go with that. Everything should be beautiful, whether it is just a jar of pencils on the table, or cakes of soap in the bath. The details of everyday life require beauty even more … Read entire article »
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summer bucket method for dying wool
Dear Diary, someone asked me today about the summer method that we use for dying. Well it is simple really, here’s the steps… get some large five gallon ice cream buckets with covers 1/4 fill them with hot water, add a kettle full of boiling water add your dye, using instructions for the particular dye you are using add your fleece, or wool cloth to water with dye in it cover your container and leave it in the sun for … Read entire article »
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