Somehow or another I have managed to actually start a very small, itty bitty business!  And the Christmas rush has been driving me nuts!  Th...

I've been fairly busy the last couple of weeks working on things for my fledgling business, trying to get stock made up, filling or...

What a miserable week.  I went to California for a jewelry show last week, something totally outside the scope of this particular blog but I...

Maybe anyway... The stiffening issue for my truncated hennin style hat has been really bothering me.  I was trolling around the forums on ...

I need a new dress form.  I have one.  She is lovely.  She is about 100 years old (literally, we can roughly date her to 1910 or so), which ...

Petrus Christus, after 1460, Portrait of a Young Girl So I've been poking around at all the Burgundian hat pages I can find (not too...

I was reward to checking on all the blogs I like to follow today by finding out that Edyth at The Completely Dressed Anachronist nominated ...

I've spent the better part of the weekend being productive for the first time in what feels like a hundred years.  It was wonderful.  I ...

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has launched a very cool digital exhibition called Accessorize .  It's in flash and sort of a bandwidth hog...

So as you may have gathered I had surgery on my right hip about a month ago (late August, the day before Hurricane Irene came to town to be ...

Things have been a bit quiet around here for the past couple of weeks, partly because I've not been doing a whole lot of anything produc...

Tabby, also called plain weave, is the most basic of weave structures and a great place to start for new weavers.   For my first weavi...

For my second-ever tablet weaving project I decided to be ambitious (as usual) and challenge myself a bit by weaving tubular cords for sm...

I actually have the first edition of Wild Color , by Jenny Dean , and was quite pleased this morning to find out that there is a new, revi...

My Greenland hood project and the finished lattice bag were picked up this morning and should be on their way to 30 Year where they will be ...

I will be off-line, or at least not able to post much, for a bit as I am having my hip fixed this afternoon.  It's a very good thing, an...

It's done!!  (picture me running/hobbling in circles flailing madly like Kermit and you will get a pretty good idea of my joy at typing ...

It's actually getting done, and I'm actually going to make it by the 30 year dead line!  Hurray!  I've got the lining put togeth...

I've been mulling over how to finish my lattice bag for the last few days.  The embroidery itself took such a long time, I really don...

I've been quite busy and productive this weekend, though not with anything textile or fiber related.  Yesterday the husband was at a mar...