This week I am in the dye room. Last week it was hard to stay inside and cut kits with temperatures in the 70s,
so when it snowed over the weekend I thought I wouldn’t be tempted to head outside. However,
this morning the snow was gone. It was tough – but I stuck to it and headed to the studio. Read more
Coming home from the Association of Michigan Basketmakers Convention marked the end of my 2016 travels. I am home for a few months – it really is a wonderful thought! I have so many pictures in my head to weave!
Unfortunately, I started my season of home with a severe case of laryngitis – imagine ten days of me with no voice. 🙂 Now that the fever and chills are past and my voice has returned, I am back to having more things I want to do, then time to do them in! I already have three new baskets in process and … but yesterday was a glorious autumn day and I just couldn’t stay inside. So I moved my ‘studio’ to the deck.
I brought some freshly dyed reed outside to play with Read more
Clean!
Yes, that is just a picture of the floor. The floor in my studio. Please note that it is clean. It is reed free. I even dusted! I actually just stood here and took it all in – it looks kind of impressive. This week our children come home and this will become living space – this week it won’t be reed strewn, but it may be covered in craft supplies and toys and little bodies. It will be a special kind of messy 🙂 Read more
warning – this post will be as scattered and messy as my studio
My studio is a mess, this is what awaited me this morning…
and that’s just one corner. This will be another week of cutting and counting and bundling and packing basket kits – three thousand or so stakes, pounds and pounds of round reed, and thousands of yards of cane – by the end of the week I should have several hundred kits ready for my March and April basket classes. Read more
