Today’s Ragtag Daily Prompt is Yarn. At my house, we’ve got yarn. I’m not a weaver, but my partner BA is. Yarn, or thread, or fiber in some form is the basic raw material for a weaving project.
Yarn. It can be made of cotton, rayon/Tencel, wool, polyester, linen, silk or some combination of all of the above, and all manner of animal fibers: the aforementioned wool, along with angora, alpaca, camel hair, you catch my drift. And there’s always another possibility. What if you add sparkles, little mirrors to loopy ribbons?
And then there is size: from the thinnest of hairs to what appears to be a small rope.
Color, oh my goodness, the colors. For me, that’s the magic. All hues and shades of a given color, and with some hand dyed skeins, variations within colors and combinations. As I mentioned, I don’t weave, or knit or crochet, or embroider. I can sew, but I don’t do much of it. All those colors and possible combinations. Design madness. I get how one could end up needing a warehouse to house their stash. Its all I can do not to buy out a shop sometimes, and I know I won’t use it.
But I gotta look, and imagine.
Here’s a small gallery, both of the stash, and a few of BA’s finished projects.
Curious Steph 
I’ve always been fond of fibers and fiber arts…. so is Purrseidon, which is why I keep my yarn locked up.
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It was surprising to us how much the cats ignored weaving and the yarns. Quite likely because they were already 10 when it arrived in the house.
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Ah, Purrseidon was 4 weeks old when she arrived in the household … the yarn was already there. The rascal likes needles and crochet hooks, too…. I’m been missing a Tunisian hook for a few weeks….
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Hmmmmm
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The scarves are lovely. I occasionally wish I’d gotten into weaving sometime during my life, but I fear it would be like knitting – I’d end up with too much product with nothing to do with it.
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She’s really good. Down here I think every second female does some kind of fiber art. I respect it a lot and am glad I don’t do it. My neighbor, Elizabeth is very very talented, too. Another friend, Perla, is a felter who sells work in Taos and Santa Fe. http://fiberspaceart.com/neckwear/
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very cool stuff, that felting! Perla appears to be a master artist.
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She’s amazing (and maddening but I love her). There is not another one of her in the world. 😀
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I have a stash, much smaller than this one, but sadly, am not doing much with it right now. Your partner is very gifted. Lovely.
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Thanks. You can restart anytime. And it does take a lot of time and effort
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Watching BA, I’m amazed at how much detail is involved in weaving, even something that appears “simple”. Definitely a fiddly sort of craft!
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Love BA’s work. “Fiddly” yes but also meditative, I imagine.
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Thanks. I’ll pass the compliment on
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So neat and so well organized, too!
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And forever in need of reorganization, like many projects
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Wow. Even the stacks draw the eye with the multitude of colours.
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Oh my! That is some very fancy and luxurious weaving. I have always admired the art of it, though never had any aptitude for doing it. Probably that’s why I admire it so much 🙂
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I’m a weaver, too, and always like getting a peek at someone else’s stash!
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OK. What is the drawdown on that beautiful shawl!!! BA does beautiful work! I think I will clean out the storage shed and put some of my stash in there! Loved this piece. LOVED IT!
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BA took her inspiration from one of Bonnie Inoye’s, doing a takedown from something she found online. She doesn’t have an exact link, but Bonnie is a master weaver who loves undulating twills, and you can find a lot of her stuff on the web.
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