Past Projects that Spark Weaver Joy

Seaglass Shawl

I selected the colors based on a seaglass motif. I’d been talking with my Grandmother (well, cousin twice removed, but she’s effectively Grandma) more lately. She’s one of those family matriarchs where you’re not sure if the family land is her, or if she’s the family land, but either way there’s SOMETHING metaphysically symbiotic going on, you don’t question it, you just happily accept it. She's inspired several pieces, including this one that reminded me of searching for seaglass with her.

Cashmere Courage

Selling a scarf that had personal meaning to me as I was weaving it is quickly becoming one of my favorite things ever. Selling it to someone who appreciated its story, and clearly knew that it wasn't a sales ploy is even better.
This scarf was my first time working with thrifted cashmere. Several small disparate balls of worn cashmere just when I needed them. I had fully internalized at that point that I had Hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (a genetic collagen disorder), and what that meant for my past, and future. I felt like tattered scraps of cashmere.
But this cashmere was valuable even in its tattered state. But I had to be gentle with it as I coaxed it into a new form, a new life. But it's no less beautiful in its new life than it might have been if it wasn't tattered and sparkling new. It just needed some gentleness.
And now it's gone off into the world, adorning the neck of a person who appreciated the value, but also the wonderfulness of something tattered and scrappy finding a new path.

Persephone's Embrace

Sometimes yarn comes into your life and DEMANDS to be made into a specific project. The yarn for Persephone's Embrace came from a thrift store, in several skeins and a partly knit project.

The shawl came together in pieces, first woven in a frenzy during the beginning autumn months, then sewn together in a more sedate manner, with the genuine garnet beads being sewn on, as is appropriate, in spring when a strand of the pomegranate like beads were found at a thrift store.

My wonderful partner Hannah Holmberg (@swordsoprano) modeled this wonderful shawl and eventually it was purchased by a family member of hers.