tubes of cotton for the Lazy Summer Day kitchen towels Four-year-old Isabelle looks up from drawing a flower to ask Jessica, her teacher, a question. What’s your favorite color? My favorite color for what? Jessica notices the little girl’s furrowed brow and continues, I have a different favorite color for clothes than, say, for my […]
Making joy non-negotiable
I have a new towel design on the loom. I worked the design out on paper with the aid of my weaving software and did all the calculations. I chose a color combination I know I like, and spent a focused day getting the warp on the loom. As I weave a sample, checking for […]
The connecting power of a towel
Earlier this year, I shared two interviews – one with Caryn, about the Whimsy & Tea towel she has been using in her kitchen and one with Deirdre, who uses her Whimsy & Tea napkin at breakfast every morning. This month I have a third interview. Carol Chambers and I were in an online writing […]
Inside the studio
The other day my friend Faith came over with a friend of hers visiting from Germany. Faith had asked if she could show her friend my studio and I was delighted to welcome them in. I had such fun encouraging them to try weaving in the studio, then spreading my inventory of towels on the dining […]
Leaning into color
Weaving is pattern and color. Pattern is my comfort zone. I’m left-brained and enjoy logic, structure and order. Numbers, formulas and equations make me happy. On car trips as a child, while my sister was reading her novel, I was pestering Dad for math problems to solve. Now, I analyze the patterns in license plates. Color […]
