Arts 700

Experimenting with recycled t shirt scrap

A month ago, I brought home a truckload of t shirt scrap from TS Designs in Burlington. It's sorted by color, and I've started sorting each …

Last week, I went to TS Designs in Burlington and came home with a truckload of t shirt scrap fabric. I sorted my load into piles by major …

I tried to make a rug using the Log Cabin pattern from Mason Dixon Knitting, and I got as far as one square, and I quit. I like to knit. I …

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 …

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

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 latest spiral, Colors of India, was inspired by a picture of a spice market in an old National Geographic magazine. The rug is almost …

WIP = work in progress This is a quick post to show how a Nautilus rug is assembled. I will post a similar picture of a traditional …

When I bought the 100-yard warp that's now wound onto the Newcomb, I experimented with a 10# bag of short selvage pieces. The saleperson …