Michelle

Knit red cabled sweater

Knitting cables and watching knives out 🧶🔪

Had my first show for my fiber work yesterday - more photos to come but for now, here’s this morning’s pack up because who doesn’t love a timelapse - #fiberart #wool #naturaldye #residency #artshow

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A flax hackle (or hetchel)

A tape loom

A price tag for the hetchel (or hackle)

Spotted these fiber goodies at an antique store (before getting into a fight with the shop keeper who kept correcting me when I said hackle … saying it was a hetchel… apparently it’s just two names for the same thing) #fibercrafts #flax #weaving

A light purple skein of yarn on the left and a lighter greyer skein on the right

The dye is both lighter and purpler than I expected! 🧶🐑#naturaldye

Dyeing with oak galls and iron yields some gorgeous purpley blacks #naturaldye 🧶🐑

Messy studio space

I’m living the absolute fiber dream at a 2-week residency in upstate NY. Foraging, spinning, dyeing and researching all day everyday! Check out my messy studio space: #artistresidency #fiberart #spinning #naturaldye 🧶🐑

Reddish yarn being held out of a dye pot

A closeup of bedstraw

I’m so excited!!!!! 😆😜 Just successfully got a nice red from bedstraw! A New England native plant whose roots can be used for #naturaldye #fiberart 🧶🐑

Rosepath woven rug

It’s done! Just have to work in all those ends #weave #wool 🧶🐑

Lady posing in front of sheep 🐑

Bags of fleeces

Spinning class

Got to visit our neighbors to the east at yesterdays New Hampshire sheep and wool festival! Took an excellent spinning workshop from master spinner Donna Kay! 🧶🐑 #spinning #wool #fiber

This is 6 shaft, I want to try 8 but I read the fabric curls

Me tooooo

Sheep woven on a loom

Sheep’s 🐑🐑🐑🧶
Ok rosepath is way more fun than tapestry #weaving - it’s official

Trees woven on a loom

Treeeeeees! I finally got to use my rosemary dyed wool! #wool #naturaldye #weave #handspun 🧶🐑🎄

Above view of a weaving with subtle browns, greys and beiges

The underside of the rug showing many many threads

Omg it feels so good to be back to regular weaving - though this weft-faced stuff moves so slow (there are 6 strands for each line as opposed to 1 strand in plain weave). It makes for a squishy rug but it EATS yarn. 🧶🐑 #weave #wool #handspun #rosepath #weftfaced

It begins again! This time I’m planning a rosepath bound weave #weaving #learning 🧶🐑

Crocheted granny stitch in red purple and blue

Working on a project for pride!!! 🧶❤️💜💙 #crochet #pride

Update: I hate tapestry weaving Crocheting in the Spanish sun wasn’t too bad of a way to spend February! Phew, it’s been a few very busy and tumultuous months. But I made it through the holidays, a trip to Spain, help…

The beast is done #tapestryweaving #neveragain
#weaving #handspun #craft 🧶🐑🤷‍♀️
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YouTube video by mywoollyphd My Woolly PhD: Episode #1 - all about sheep

Just came across Liz Scarfe's My Woolly PhD youtube series. I have just learned that sheep are matriarchal, pretty gay, and love group sex. So you know... do with that information what you will. #lgbt #wool #sheep #craft 🧶🏳️‍🌈
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Great! ***puts my over eager seeds back away***

Knit for Food Knit-a-Thon 2025 Join us on April 5th, 2025 for the 5th annual Knit for Food Knit-a-thon. This 12-hour knitting marathon raises funds and awareness to combat hunger and food insecurity!

@betternews.bsky.social check it out - knitters raise over half a million dollars for Meals on Wheels, Team No Kid Hungry, World Central Kitchen and Feeding America - sounds like #goodnews to me!
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Group of hard working, smiling knitters

Group of hard working, smiling knitters

Close up of spinning

Close up of knitting

#knitathon 2025 was so special this year! 🧶 We raised over $528k for 4 special food equity nonprofits! Want to join us next year, or get in on some of the other fibercraft activities we're planning for this year, join our new discord: discord.gg/enbAAykG2r
#craftivism #knitting #knitforfood #Vermont

Screen grab from a fundraising site showing $505,538 in fundraising for feeding america, world central kitchen, meals on wheels, team no kid hungry

We've raised OVER HALF A MILLION DOLLARS! There are still 40 minutes to raise even more for these four food equity nonprofits! Help us write these folks BIG FAT CHECKS by donating here: givebutter.com/knitforfood2...
#craftivism #knitting #foodequity #knitforfood #knitathon 🧶

#knitathon 2025 is happening!!! We’ve raised $457k and counting ❤️ it’s not too late to donate and help knitters across America fund 4 food equity nonprofits givebutter.com/knitforfood2...

When are you planting your flax this year?

Muddy socks and sneakers

Very muddy after a trail run - spring has sprung #run #5k #vermont #timetogocraft

A finished parasol mounted on its frame is held high above my head w one hand while I take the pic w the other hand. This pastel gay pride crochet mandala features pineapples and fans of various types. The rainbow begins with purple t the center and fades slowly through blue, green, yellow, orange, to red at the outer edge. The yarn is by Hobbii Sultan Kings 100% corton OEKO-TEX certified for sustainable practices. This pattern is about half of one by Ira Rott.

I finished the Gay Pride 30” parasol without you, but not because I don’t like you, I’m just bad at making content.

I put it on a frame with red details: handle, arm ends, & cap bc I had less red at the edge than I wanted. This is about half of a pattern by Ira Rott. 🧶

#crochet #fiberart #mandala

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A dog snuggled up in a blanket with the caption "Want to feel warm and fuzzy? Donate $10 and help feed your community: knit-a-thon"

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Alternatively if you're more motivate by competition, our team is just $125 behind some dorks from North Carolina - so donate today and help us cream them! #govermontgo #thetruespiritofphilanthropy

#craftivism #knitting #crafting #goodnews #Vermont 🧶 #signalboost