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June 21, 2020

I make a number of different tools for spinners and weavers including spindles, heddles, shuttles, niddy noddies, nostepinnes and tiny looms.

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Spinning Wheel Repair

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I love to fix old spinning wheels and get them running again.

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Finger Weaving

Posted on March 6, 2019March 6, 2019 by Judy

Finger weaving is a technique used to create belts, sashes, straps, and other similar items through a non-loom braiding process. It is especially popular among the Québecois, Métis and North Read More …

Posted in weaving

Card Weaving

Posted on February 9, 2019March 15, 2019 by Judy

Card weaving (also called tablet weaving) is a very ancient technique for weaving bands. It was used in Iron Age Europe as well as by the Vikings to weave headers Read More …

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Bandweaving

Posted on January 31, 2019October 30, 2019 by Judy

I’ve recently become fascinated with weaving narrow bands using a special band heddle. This technique uses supplementary warp threads to form the pattern by floating on top of or underneath Read More …

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Spinning with a belt distaff

Posted on May 13, 2018May 17, 2018 by Judy

Last summer I taught myself to spin using a spindle and belt distaff. This method was used in Europe during the Middle Ages and can still be found in Eastern Read More …

Posted in spindle spinning, spinning, spinning with a distaff

The story of a rug

Posted on November 4, 2015February 27, 2017 by Judy

This rug began as wool straight off the sheep – white Scottish Blackface from Alberta, white North Country Cheviot from Ontario, black Canadian wool from the Canadian Cooperative Wool Growers Read More …

Posted in spinning, weavingTagged rug, weaving

Dyeing with woad

Posted on September 24, 2014February 25, 2017 by Judy

Today I dyed with the woad I grew this summer. It had grown happily in a recycling bin, munched on by some cabbage butterfly caterpillars. To start I put a Read More …

Posted in UncategorizedTagged dye, dyeing, indigo, natural dyeing, woad

A dye garden

Posted on June 10, 2014February 25, 2017 by Judy

Last year I planted seeds of woad, weld and dyer’s coreopsis but none of them germinated. I have no idea why. This year I decided to try again with last Read More …

Posted in dyeing, natural dyeingTagged coreopsis, dye, dyeing, indigo, Japanese indigo, natral dyeing, weld, woad

Dogs and Cats

Posted on June 8, 2014February 25, 2017 by Judy

Over the winter I did a couple of custom spinning orders. The first job was spinning the fur of a lovely Sheltie called Maggie. I had the honour of meeting Maggie Read More …

Posted in cats, spinningTagged cat, dog, fur, hair, pet, spinning

Natural dyeing

Posted on June 8, 2014February 25, 2017 by Judy

Summer is the time for natural dyeing. This is dyeing, not with commercial dyes, but with materials I can find around where I live such as flowers or lichen. It’s always Read More …

Posted in dyeing, UncategorizedTagged dye, dyeing, natural dye
Robin's animals

Shearing day

Posted on April 12, 2014February 25, 2017 by Judy

Today was shearing day at my friend Robin’s farm, Elderberry Farm. She has an assortment of sheep: Polwarth, Shetland, Jacob, Shropshire (and crosses) and two guard llamas Hamish and Joy. Read More …

Posted in breeds, buying wool, fleece, llama, sheepTagged llama, shearing, sheep, skirting, vm

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