Mental Processes (153)

How to recycle a polo shirt into fiber for knitting or weaving

(Click here for a pinnable image that shows all of these steps.) This tutorial is one of a series about slicing old clothes into fiber …

Was it in The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, or one of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, where it was a family tragedy that one of the …

Several months ago, a fiber-artist friend told me she'd worked with recycled t shirt factory scrap from TS Designs, in Burlington, NC. I …

Stash is the glory and the bane of the productive fiber artist. There's never enough stash on hand, and there's even less room to keep it …

I had a grand time at the Carolina FiberFest last weekend, held annually at the NC State Fairgrounds in Raleigh. Wandering around booths …

As I've been slicing fabric for weaving, I've processed a lot of fabric in the "November" color story, which is mostly men's clothing, and …

I am still developing the process I follow to turn old clothes into rugs and wall hangings. When I first started processing fiber for …

Color. Nothing but color. (And a Chihuahua.) Not sure how anyone slept on these, but it sure is fine to sit and inhale the color as …

I'd heard horror stories about combing out long fringes after the washing machine got hold of them. I also had a sternly worded suggestion …

People who see my rugs in a show sometimes ask where I get my ideas for colors. "Everywhere." Simply everywhere. Admittedly, I read (or …