'The Darkside' Bag Creation Part 3 - Warped and Woven

Bag Making, Raw Fleece ProcessingTiff Reid5 July 2022hand spun, hand woven, rigid heddle weaving, JacobComment

'The Darkside' Bag Creation Part 2 - Making Yarn

This is the long part. Not sure if you realize how long it takes to make a skein of yarn, but it’s long. And making this gradient yarn didn’t include the skirting and washing parts (search earlier blog posts for details on those steps).

Tiff Reid11 June 2022Jacob, Alpaca, hand spunComment

'The Darkside' Bag Creation Part 1 - The Vision

I don’t know how everyone else works, but my creative process starts pretty slow. I mull things around in my brain for a while, then procrastinate, then do some minor prep work, then procrastinate some more… and then finally start making.