Studio Systems (How I work) 153.35

Tools for cutting textiles

When I see "how tos" that show people recycling t shirts into yarn by cutting with scissors, I cringe. It's simply not possible to …

(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 …

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 …

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

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 …

Newcomb Studio Art Rug looms shipped with a sectional warp beam that will hold at least 100, if not 200, yards of 8/4 carpet warp. Given …

My routine is to do an hour of prep work in my studio, slicing incoming fabric, assembling colors for a new rug, sewing up bottom and sleeve …

Say THAT three times quickly! Newly sharpened shears newly sharpened shears newly sharpened shears! Oh, the joy of finding a new …