There is a wonderful little old building in my town that was once a store, ‘way back in the logging-town days (back when Oregon’s economy was all about timber), and more recently refurbished and turned into a home. That home sold a while back and is now a most delightful bookshop. Handy as those chain…
Month: April 2008
Such a geek.
I was busy reading up on shibori yesterday when there was a knock at the door. We get a lot of door-to-door folks out here, mainly church people and vacuum cleaner sales people, neither of whom I really want to talk to, so when I opened the door to find a young man in a…
Random Shibori from the Stash
Some days I look around the studio and think “I don’t have enough fabric” which is probably what every fabric junkie thinks at some point or another. Then I have a nice cup of tea, sit down on the sofa and have a look around at the bags, shelves, boxes and piles of silk and…
Kids are the same the world over
My kids are staying home with me today and we’re all feeling poorly. Achy joints, low-grade fever, general ickyness. But since it’s one of my eBay listing days, I’m still here at the computer instead of sleeping like the children. Wheeee! And you know what I’ve noticed? This is no big revelation, of course, but…
Negative space
Sometimes that which is not there stands out more than that which is. In this case, I’m referring to a missing dot among an otherwise complete shibori motif. The shibori in question comes from a beautiful deep green cotton yukata with a peacock feather motif in my collection that I’ve had a few opportunities to…
We have a winner and next month’s giveaway
Plaidfuzz is the winner for the Tuesday Free Fabric Giveaway! She will be getting the fun indigo yukata cotton mentioned a few posts down. Be sure to check out her Etsy shop and see all the pretty paper goodies she makes. I’m sure some of you more regular readers were waiting to hear about the…
Faux shibori
Oh dear, I turned my one week vacation from work into a two week vacation from blogging, didn’t I? Naughty me. I promised to show some examples of shibori prints, so here we go! First we have a pair of indigo yukata cottons with shibori style prints and bright colors. Notice how the shibori circles…
A love for both the common fiber and the extraordinary textile @KimonoMomo 