I bought some spectacular fabric that was a border print. I automatically thought of making a lovely gathered skirt with the border at the hem and I was very happy with how it turned out. A little casual. Going out. You can see that it\’s beautiful and versatile. The fabric is a linen cotton blend […]
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Today is March 26th. I\’m headed to PlyAway today where I will take some classes and also teach some classes. I\’ve been packing for days and then I spent another 2 hours this morning with the last minute stuff and I just remembered a couple more things to pack. Anyway, I was getting myself ready
Last Tuesday I finished weaving the never-ending towels. We had a contest to guess how many towels were on the beam and I said that I would put all the correct guesses together and choose one person to get one of the towels. Well, there were only two correct guesses. The number of towels on
Today\’s look back is taken from a newsletter I sent out in early January of 2010. That year I had scheduled Sara Lamb, Maggie Casey, Galina Khmeleva, Deb Robson, Michael Cook, Denny McMillan, Abby Franquemont and Amy King. Many of them were my first time meeting them and I was nervous every single time. And
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I\’ve been thinking about classes a lot recently. Not about teaching them as much as taking some. I think the last time I personally took a real class it may have been 2013… I love taking classes. Really, I love being in a class. I\’ve taken a ton of classes about spinning techniques that I
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This morning I gathered all the names and emails of everyone who commented on the Giveaway blog post. I went to Instagram, Twitter and Facebook to add the entries for people who shared the post with the hash tag #spinandweavealongwithbeth. I put it all into an excel spreadsheet so everyone had a number (77 in
So I got home from North Carolina a week ago. It has taken me this long to begin to feel normal. I\’m always a little extra tired and want to be a little extra quiet when I get home from a teaching. This week was a little different because I had decided to take part
I was fortunate to have the opportunity to meet Deb Robson about 10 years ago. It mostly came about because I was contacted while she was writing the Fleece and Fiber Sourcebook to see if I could provide a few of the samples for the book. At the time I owned the Spinning Loft and
All the things are swirling around in my head. I sat and looked at the blank pages in my November planner and felt a little stuck because even though I have a ton of things to accomplish in the next six months I felt a little stuck about how exactly to proceed and then how
Today I teach my first class of 5 total at The Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair or SAFF for short. Today\’s class is a breeds study that I started teaching a couple of years ago called Who\’s the Fairest: A Princess Breeds study. We all wear tiaras and there is some talk about princesses and how
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