From the monthly archives:
A marketing worker-bee by day, a dancer/weaver/botanist at 5 pm – that’s how I would have described myself a few months ago. I think I’ve been bitten by the birding bug, though, so I might have to revise this description.
It’s hard to avoid being at least a casual birder at the Folk School – the [...]
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Last week, It was good to have William Rogers here at the Blacksmith shop to teach. This year his choice was “Repoussé”. Pronounced reh-poo-say, the French word meaning “pushed up”, the technique includes working a malleable metal such as copper from both the front and back sides to raise very detailed designs into the sheet [...]
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What I didn’t get to photograph was Paul’s Plant hanger that he made for his garden. My camera died the moment I was about to snap the shutter. It was a longer take on the rest of our plant hangers and had a neat decorative twist in the “leg.” At the base, for stability, he [...]
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Storey Publishing has just released Folk School instructor Margaret Radcliffe’s latest book, The Essential Guide to Color Knitting Techniques (hardcover, $29.95), which is an absolute brilliant combination of yarns, textures, colors and stitches. The winning ingredient is the enormous amount of inspiration for knitters of all levels. A stroll through the hundreds of beautifully rendered [...]
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