quietly creating
Barbara Wanhill
Category: fibre
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Since December 1st, I’ve been participating in an Instagram driven maker challenge hosted by Drea Renee Knits, using spinning spindles. As I am prone to do with some things – especially in the winter and when the temperature drops to -34ºC – I have jumped right in. So much for promising myself I would spend…
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I sold my Ashford Joy this spring. For a variety of reasons, I believed I needed to move on from my interest in visually exploring spinning fibre. Previously, I had gifted one of my Turkish spindles to a lovely, masterful spinner in Europe. And, I bought more printmaking ink – which I will admit, has…
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I do love the smell of ink and was planning on some more printmaking over the holidays. Thanks to the extreme cold weather (-32ºC here in Calgary) and my determination to get some fresh air, another smell caught my attention. The smell of pure lanolin took me on a completely different tinkering session. I purchased…