Starting to Weave

Yep, I'm taking Intro to Weaving :]

It's actually a lot of fun and I quite like it...however, I quickly discovered that I have a tendency to like a lot of the hand manipulated designs and that I'm rather slow at it...so it takes me a bit of time to complete my pieces....

This is often what my station/loom looks like while I'm working...

Here is the first weaving we did which was really just to get us used to using a loom...

This pattern with these colors remind me of watermelons...

This is our newest project that we've been working on...

First our sample/experimental section (1 yard long):

And the actual piece (28 inches long):

yes, I stitched in two doe...

buttons! hand stitching! :D

The stitching still needs to be done on the other end of the piece so expect some -complete- photos of this project to appear soon...

Publicity and Goodbye to NYC Dirndl Ambassadors

My hat got featured on the Austria Travel Info website!! :D

Check out the article here!

I'm so glad that everyone liked it and that I had the opportunity to make it this summer!

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The Dirdle Ambassador group for NYC has now come to an end. Since the sweepstakes has ended and summer is over there are no more events for us to participate in so we held a last get together the other week to celebrate a successful run. I made a lot of great friends with my fellow Ambassadors this summer and had a lot of wonderful experiences. I only wish the best for everyone at the Austria Travel office and to the other Ambassadors! I'm sure we'll run into each other again!