tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3476590916401021752024-02-20T02:30:24.150-08:00Etsy WeaversEtsy Weavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15470888493665773034noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347659091640102175.post-64427698679527036362012-07-10T18:39:00.000-07:002012-07-11T07:44:11.918-07:00Darlene Carman interviews Annie MacHaleHello World!<br />
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Wouldn't you want to learn more about our team members? Would could be better than watching a video with one? Well, of course, meeting in-person would be the best... But for now - this media would do just fine - <br />
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we have a rare occasion to see an interview with our very best - Annie MacHale, the owner of the ASpinnerWeaver store on Etsy.<br />
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Annie has been taking care of our Facebook page and blog updates. And now we get to really learn about her, the art of inkle-weaving and broaden our horizons in the world of weaving (and happiness!)<br />
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Enjoy the video! <br />
Thank you, Annie, for sharing!<br />
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Alvant<br />
Captain of Etsy Weavers team<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Sherry Bingaman</b></span> </div>
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Sherry has joined our team not a long time ago, but she is a
great addition to our team, both for her weaving experience and also for other
techniques and designs that make her creations so interesting and unique!</div>
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Read on and make a new friend!</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Sherry Bingaman</b></span> with Etsy store <span style="font-size: small;"><b>Nueva Vida</b></span> <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/sherrybingaman"><b>http://www.etsy.com/shop/sherrybingaman</b></a> </div>
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Here is her story: </div>
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My love of making and selling my textile work goes back to
my childhood. When I was nine years old, my mom received eight free sewing
lessons with the purchase of her new sewing machine. Since Mom was already an
expert seamstress, she let me take the lessons. Aprons were the first things I
learned to make. A little nine year old going around our neighborhood selling
her gingham aprons must have been hard to resist, because I sold as many as I
could make! I trace my passion for making and selling to these first sales.</div>
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My parents were artists and I grew up surrounded by the
materials and inspirations involved in their paintings and commercial art. I
was especially fascinated with the paper doll books they made and I designed
dresses for my own paper dolls.</div>
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My love of fabrics continued to grow, and in 1967 I entered
Iowa State University as a textile major. When I took my first weaving class, I
went nuts! The excitement of actually designing my own fabrics was an explosion
of fun for me. I changed my major to applied art with an emphasis in weaving
and have ever since been obsessed with everything woven. I always enjoyed
selling what I made, and parting with my treasures was easy – I was in love
with the process, and the more I wove, the more ideas that came to me for the
next project.</div>
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After graduating from ISU and my husband’s 3-year stint in
the Navy we returned to my home town of Kenosha, Wisconsin, where I started
participating in art fairs in the communities between Milwaukee and Chicago.
This area was rich with shows, and I had some great initial success. My
husband, Jim, encouraged me and soon quit his job to work with me. We continued
to make our living as designer/weavers for 15 years, having two daughters along
the way. We moved to rural Missouri to be centrally located and more accessible
to shows all over the country and to experience “country living”. Our older
daughter, Kate, went to many of the shows with us, and our younger one, Kory,
still regrets she didn’t get to go to as many shows as her sister. They both
loved the excitement of meeting artists and their work and grew up to become
successful artists themselves (<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_760133107">http://</a><a href="http://katebingamanburt.com/obsess" target="_blank">katebingamanburt.com/obsess</a> , <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_760133103">http://</a><a href="http://www.korybing.com/about" target="_blank">www.korybing.com/about</a>
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Eventually, to add more stability to our income (college costs were lurking in
the near future) I got my art education certification and began teaching at
K-12 at the local school and also continued with our weaving business. Working
with students of all ages was a lot of fun and also added to my design
inspiration resources (kids have a unique creative perspective!). Jim continued
doing shows on his own for several more years while his interest in computers
developed into a passion and new career.</div>
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I taught for 15 years while continuing with shows in the
summer. I always kept my love of weaving alive and expanded into dyeing, both
my yarns and now fabrics. Creating my own colorways became another obsession.
My weave structures are pretty basic and nothing fancy, and my one-of-a-kind
colors are my signature. Silk is my favorite material, both silk yarns and silk
fabric for my scarves. Dyeing silk yields wonderful subtle color blendings very
reminiscent of a watercolor painting. I love the unpredictability of my dye
process. No two pieces are ever the same.</div>
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My main sources of inspiration are ethnic textiles,
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many times and treasure the rugs and embroidered textiles I collected there.
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I have been an elementary principal for the past five years
and continue to do shows and sell my work through my ETSY shop that I opened in
2006. ETSY has been great for me both as a sales outlet and a resource for
materials. I am inspired by the work of other artists here and am so pleased
with the growth and effectiveness of ETSY. My work can be seen at <a href="http://www.sherrybingaman.etsy.com/" target="_blank">www.sherrybingaman.etsy.com</a>
and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nueva-Vida/267437229990162?ref=ts" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/pages/Nueva-Vida/267437229990162?ref=ts</a></div>
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persistent. It can be difficult to find the time to list often, but when I do
the effort is always reflected in my sales. The search ads have been great for
boosting my sales, too. I include my ETSY website on my business cards. At
shows, I notice more and more customers are familiar with ETSY and do much of
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<br /></div>Etsy Weavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15470888493665773034noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347659091640102175.post-81657308492711913692011-12-24T08:35:00.000-08:002011-12-24T08:35:47.666-08:00Celebration Treasuries!Today would be the perfect day to announce the winners of the Celebration treasuries contest for Etsy Weavers team.<br />
The air is full of happiness and joy - Christmas is here, Hanukkah is here! New Year is almost here! <br />
And our Etsy Weavers team is over the 200 mark!<br />
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We had many amazing treasuries created by our team members, celebrating the works of our team and colorful creations of others. It was a pure joy to see them:<br />
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<a href="http://www.etsy.com/teams/7451/etsy-weavers/discuss/9462149/page/1">http://www.etsy.com/teams/7451/etsy-weavers/discuss/9462149/page/1</a><br />
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Today we announce three winners who have collected the most amount of views, clicks and admirerers!<br />
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#1 is unbeatable <strong>Patt</strong>, representing <strong>AllMyCreations</strong> store, with remarkable Celebration treasury<br />
<a href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/NTc5NzE2N3wxNTIyMDgwNzQw/celebration" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0192b5;">www.etsy.com/treasury/NTc5NzE2N3wxNTIyMDgwNzQw/celebration</span></a> <br />
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#2 treasury belongs to <strong>Elizabeth</strong>, our <strong>GreenwoodWoman</strong>! Here is the link to her treasury<br />
<a href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/MTU2NjkyOTd8MTUzMDg4NDM0MA/celebrating-weaving-and-the-love-of">http://www.etsy.com/treasury/MTU2NjkyOTd8MTUzMDg4NDM0MA/celebrating-weaving-and-the-love-of</a><br />
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</div># 3 proudly goes to <strong>Bridget</strong> representing <strong>Biggie</strong> store - Another amazing collection<br />
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</div>But the right thing to say would be this - we all win because we're together in this CELEBRATION!<br />
Congratulations to all of you! Happy Holidays! Happy Weaving!<br />
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Alvant<br />
Captain of Etsy Weavers teamEtsy Weavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15470888493665773034noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347659091640102175.post-48033022876452686512011-11-27T18:58:00.000-08:002011-11-27T18:58:50.622-08:00Interview with Sayward 'Say' Johnson<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Welcome, welcome, welcome back!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What got you started weaving? </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I actually started out as a knitter. I taught myself to knit when I was in my mid-20s. It was not my first attempt but it was the first time I had buckled down and forced myself to do more than knit and purl. At first, I was obsessed with sock-knitting, but eventually I decided that I wanted to learn how to weave. That desire drew me to textiles program at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD). My first warp was white, green and purple 8/2 cotton. The first time I threw my shuttle through the weft I had a wonderful moment of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">aha! </i>I pulled my beater and then I stopped and looked at my warp because I knew I would never forget that moment. <span style="background: white;"><br />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Any particular technique(s) that you enjoy the most? </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When I am working with copper, I love undulating twills, modified overshot patterns and satin weaves. I also love to hammer and dap woven copper. I remember a metalsmithing instructor saying that the reason copper moves beautifully beneath a hammer is that it is porous; my weavings are simply more porous. I also love patinas - to me copper is most beautiful with a patina. When it comes to embroidery, I am currently obsessed with French knots and cross stitch. Last but not least, I am addicted to knitting small sculptures out of copper wire. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" id="_x0000_m1027" o:spt="1" path="m,l,21600r21600,l21600,xe" u1:spt="202"><stroke joinstyle="miter"></stroke><path gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="segments" u1:connecttype="rect"></path></shapetype><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What part the process makes you the most passionate? </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I enjoy the planning and brainstorming phase but I always have about a dozen projects on the go because I find it impossible to work in a linear fashion. Often pieces need to go away and 'rest' for a while before I can finish them. Many of my patinas take several weeks to develop. When I'm working, I'll have pieces patinating, pieces resting, and pieces beside me at various stages of completion.<br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I most enjoy moments of rediscovery, where I pick up an unfinished piece and suddenly know how to finish it. I love when something becomes its own work, not at all what I had envisioned at the start.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><shape id="_x0000_s1032" o:spt="1" path="m,l,21600r21600,l21600,xe" stroked="f" style="height: 32.25pt; margin-left: 109.5pt; margin-top: 300.55pt; position: absolute; width: 211.75pt; z-index: 251665408;" type="#_x0000_m1027"><stroke joinstyle="miter"></stroke><path gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="segments"></path><textbox inset="0,0,0,0" style="mso-fit-shape-to-text: t;"></textbox></shape><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What is your source of inspiration? </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At the moment I am obsessed with lichens, old, crumbling walls, rust and boreal forests. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Where do you sell? </i></b></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At Etsy, at locals shows, through my website and in person. <br />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Apart from creating things, what do you do? </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am mom to a nearly three year old who already knows how to help full scarves and happily narrates while I warp my loom; "you take a thread and put it through the heddle, then you slide it over. You take another thread and take another heddle...."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><shape id="_x0000_s1030" o:spt="1" path="m,l,21600r21600,l21600,xe" stroked="f" style="height: 21pt; margin-left: 102pt; margin-top: 306.05pt; position: absolute; width: 238.95pt; z-index: 251667456;" type="#_x0000_m1027"><stroke joinstyle="miter"></stroke><path gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="segments"></path><textbox inset="0,0,0,0" style="mso-fit-shape-to-text: t;"></textbox></shape><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What first made you want to become an artist? </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Honestly, growing up I never thought I would be an artist. In my mind, art equalled representational drawing and painting and I didn't have the 'drawing' gene. When I attended NSCAD, in order to go through their textiles program, I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">had</i> to learn how to draw and paint and open myself to all kinds of new ideas. I loved it. Attending NSCAD was truly life-altering for me. I felt as though I was exactly where I was meant to be and doing what I was meant to be doing. Art-wise, I feel like I am only at the beginning of a long and wonderful journey. It is both exciting and daunting, but mostly exciting. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Please describe your creative process </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Usually I will weave a long copper warp and then cut it into sections. Out of one warp I may wind up with four or five different pieces. For my copper pieces, the weaving is just the beginning – it's like making my canvas<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I try to soak up new techniques whenever I can and try them, so all of my work is part of a constant, fluctuating process. I weave with copper, patina it, embroider it. Sometimes I embed copper in wax. At the moment I'm taking an introductory paper-making class at the Ottawa School of Art so I've been pressing weavings into hand-made paper. Everything I do or try bleeds over into a different technique. I would describe my creative process as experimental and happily chaotic. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A Raku style coffee mug from my cousin. She studied pottery for two years and then decided to become a lawyer. She graduated from Yale with honours – she would have made an amazing studio potter! <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What advice would you give to artists who are new to Etsy? </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Be open-minded, explore and take good photographs. <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What do you like about Etsy? </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It's flexible, I can edit anything instantly and it's easy to connect with people. <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How do you promote your work?</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What weaving activities or guilds to you participate in? </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I'm a member of the Ontario Craft Council and plan on joining the Ottawa Weaver's Guild this year. <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do you have a website, blog, Facebook page, or other online endeavours?</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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And today is such a day - with Bobbie!</em></strong></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><strong><em>See for yourself!</em></strong></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">----------------------------------------</span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> - "My greatest source of inspiration comes from Indian and Hindu art and culture"</span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6wLGQok6l5JqIduslzHCrFz81hbe9HShjb8GJ-4mKV0YH0X3ZQlrAmrc6LlbEpLBKa-kEFg-xg0otITEM4I2kfIGSnMctFrjMkbozjuCH9TC2JBKp_a52CoHOmk7pH_bTPOEeo-9S3R0/s1600/etsyweavers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6wLGQok6l5JqIduslzHCrFz81hbe9HShjb8GJ-4mKV0YH0X3ZQlrAmrc6LlbEpLBKa-kEFg-xg0otITEM4I2kfIGSnMctFrjMkbozjuCH9TC2JBKp_a52CoHOmk7pH_bTPOEeo-9S3R0/s320/etsyweavers.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">How long ago did you start weaving and what got you started? </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I started weaving during my senior year of high school. I was set to take independent study in fine art that year but due to class funding they cut the freelance course. I had taken all of the other offered classes in art at the school except one. I admit I wasn't looking forward to it. It was Fiber Arts. At the time, I had considered it below other fine arts like painting and sculpting but I set out to do my best and enjoy it! Little did I know that in that class I would find a few passions of mine, sewing and weaving. My first woven piece was an awful rendition of a peacock with cheap department store yarn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Any particular technique(s) that you enjoy the most? </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I love to hand embroider. My favorite stitch has got to be the French knot! I put those puppies on everything! When it comes to weaving I enjoy a simple lap heddle loom. There is something magical about using a technique that humans have been crafting with for centuries. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What part the process makes you the most passionate? </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am addicted to hand spun yarns. Etsy has helped fueled that habit. How did I ever get by on commercial yarn?? The best yarn out there has got to be made by the amazing moonrover.etsy.com. She has made the most awesome custom colored yarns for me. I often keep yarns around for months before I actually use them. *Hoards hoards hoards!* I have the same problem with buttons and stones, I keep them around in overflowing boxes and baskets. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What is your source of inspiration? </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">My greatest source of inspiration comes from Indian and Hindu art and culture. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6U1S_XGzPaQf6erlk2aHA59Arj-15tWiZp6WtPGAc1DsAAro1e18D_yD4AG1iEtgXSxJUs7vMuuXFpFzHlz4bVnwSRbJaCX6wgt5dM8Y5Ef12jg2GR55ZyhiRxWyHbvI58bm-OLIkdsI/s1600/RAINBOW.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6U1S_XGzPaQf6erlk2aHA59Arj-15tWiZp6WtPGAc1DsAAro1e18D_yD4AG1iEtgXSxJUs7vMuuXFpFzHlz4bVnwSRbJaCX6wgt5dM8Y5Ef12jg2GR55ZyhiRxWyHbvI58bm-OLIkdsI/s320/RAINBOW.JPG" width="261" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I can sit around for hours drawing paisley and henna designs. The majority of my paintings are inspired by the vibrant colors and patterns. I also take a lot of creative energy from nature. I grew up in the Midwest surrounded by miles of corn fields and flat scenery. How bland and dull! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">About 6 years ago I relocated to the West coast and fell in love with the ocean and mountains. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibpXxY_uiqMnPAO0y0-DWC03-sl0H6FV1rUWRZTEUXNecNbjdq_M5HrLAsi5GOHiC2_6b_ariJbbSwKplwPsO3VAGNmpGWt6t7zmx094XVd623QzH1LzW7_DBnInbIOtWxteaQjhglqf4/s1600/oceancliffs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibpXxY_uiqMnPAO0y0-DWC03-sl0H6FV1rUWRZTEUXNecNbjdq_M5HrLAsi5GOHiC2_6b_ariJbbSwKplwPsO3VAGNmpGWt6t7zmx094XVd623QzH1LzW7_DBnInbIOtWxteaQjhglqf4/s320/oceancliffs.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The terrain in California can vary so greatly in just the span of a few miles that it boggles the mind. To the east, there are dry brush hills. To the south, there are towering majestic redwoods. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYMX0d3tSJEQoB7uqlG8aGFQDQ4-WQXb46454Z6udIRnEMP3S0DnLg5awgeTSA3wtAefHPSMOCUGQtPOaceKl0gPdXdUB0UwKVo-JpwZgg5QwWDBye4x-V49FwxklbLZkA7QLmjPDmz9Q/s1600/redwoods.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYMX0d3tSJEQoB7uqlG8aGFQDQ4-WQXb46454Z6udIRnEMP3S0DnLg5awgeTSA3wtAefHPSMOCUGQtPOaceKl0gPdXdUB0UwKVo-JpwZgg5QwWDBye4x-V49FwxklbLZkA7QLmjPDmz9Q/s320/redwoods.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">To the west, the endlessly blue Pacific Ocean. One cannot help but being empowered by the daily scenery. When I am finding myself in a creative slump I will turn to my zen gardens. I have a table set up in my third floor studio next to the window dedicated to my ever changing zen garden collection. Most of the items that dwell in the sands are ones that I have scavenged on beach combing expeditions: beach glass, skipping stones, shells, sand dollars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHp1_j9-qdSukppAhBhS0f_S6dNYYTVrEgjSkJOlXZ27wMItq8hEKMA9sckTkiY_1jCTsM1RwE2hTTRLEsKJNMtxc0lZ_3B4s9fuP5Toeuoqi8tVXchvOwhIaCzTU4rK77U5HOpv-Mudg/s1600/zengarden2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="224" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHp1_j9-qdSukppAhBhS0f_S6dNYYTVrEgjSkJOlXZ27wMItq8hEKMA9sckTkiY_1jCTsM1RwE2hTTRLEsKJNMtxc0lZ_3B4s9fuP5Toeuoqi8tVXchvOwhIaCzTU4rK77U5HOpv-Mudg/s320/zengarden2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Apart from creating things, what do you do? </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As my day job, I work as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic. I have loved working with animals since I was a child. I got started in the veterinary profession at the bottom of the ladder doing down and dirty kennel work. Thank goodness I don't have to do that anymore! Hah! Though I do like working with dogs, I have always been a cat person. They just seem to gravitate to me. Maybe they can sense a sucker when they see one hmm?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have accepted that one day I will be a crazy cat lady!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My collection has started with our rotten black domestic short hair named Vincent. Another hobby of mine is gaming. I have wasted lord knows how many hours of my life sitting at my computer playing video games. I was turned into a gamer at a young age. My father and grandmother were always playing video games and it rubbed off on me early. I can still remember how mad my mother was when my father brought home our first computer, an old Tandy, when I was in elementary school. My love of sewing and weaving has even leaked over into my gaming! My mage troll character in World of Warcraft is a tailor! RAWR!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the Horde!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What first made you want to become an artist? </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I don't think there was ever a conscious decision to BECOME an artist. You just are an artist! Since I was old enough to hold a pen I have been drawing or painting or otherwise filling my space creatively. I still have My Little Ponies that I decided were too plain and doodled on from when I was a little girl. All of my poor toys ended up with a new paint job or hair cut.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's been downhill from there!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Please describe your creative process</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The creative process for me is spectacularly random and fractured. I often start and finish pieces months apart. Nothing is ever completely finished either. I can weave a scarf and a few months later it will be deconstructed into something else. A water color painting can end up being stitched onto the cover of a journal. Weeks can go by where I don't touch anything and then I suddenly have a spurt of productivity. I hate to measure and cannot cut a straight line to save my life. Many thinks that I sew never start with a predefined set of measurements in mind. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What handmade possession do you most cherish?</span></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I first moved away from home and into my own apartment I was pretty poor. To pass the time my friends and I came up with some pretty creative ways to entertain ourselves. One of those ways included covering my boring wooden paneled kitchen in scads of coloring book pages. We would use everything from the basic crayon and markers to puffy paint and nail polish to color outside the lines and make one of a kind masterpieces. By the time I moved out the entire room was filled floor to ceiling with them. I took them all down and bound them into a keepsake book. There are many of those friends who are now gone and I feel like I have a little piece of their imagination still alive with me.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What do you like about Etsy? </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Buying things. I admit it. There are so many original artists on Etsy that it can boggle the mind. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Do you have a website, blog, Facebook page, or other online endeavors? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I have a Facebook fan site </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/San-Jose-CA/Panthapyre/186951301321623"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">http://www.facebook.com/pages/San-Jose-CA/Panthapyre/186951301321623</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiindY5FehQ5J51-qul01r0z5g2CiKMiPjOVW3oXUbckqf0YlizK2OlThlo4YMgw06S1wd-PLVtf5JDCrkS67fFv_KQERXSLVY8tRM2eurhFONzvnO4GIbJQ_G-mdDj63imYtv3nPKFdIE/s1600/weavestonepink.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="274" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiindY5FehQ5J51-qul01r0z5g2CiKMiPjOVW3oXUbckqf0YlizK2OlThlo4YMgw06S1wd-PLVtf5JDCrkS67fFv_KQERXSLVY8tRM2eurhFONzvnO4GIbJQ_G-mdDj63imYtv3nPKFdIE/s320/weavestonepink.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Etsy Weavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15470888493665773034noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347659091640102175.post-83016981840148152702011-06-25T19:35:00.000-07:002011-06-25T19:35:46.457-07:00"Weaving sort of found me..." - inside of skiingweaver store...<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hello all!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Today I wanted to share the story of a talented weaver from New England, US - </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Kristin Kelley-Munoz</span></strong>, the owner of the Store </span><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/skiingweaver?ref=si_shop"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><strong>skiingweaver</strong></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I hope you enjoy our interview with Kristin as much as we did!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4BwDBN6I1LT25M8ZFSQBfpOUQjO3J3NpwMbSs20uqYSzjh9jiATFvhdeKbppcyKGeU_uVcQwCszcCon7UXEjiAUu4vyyr7oA3IYcS69LlloJWkbzWdUvQbxrrWUNQhSGRlHP4mhCNpeg/s1600/IMG_1681.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4BwDBN6I1LT25M8ZFSQBfpOUQjO3J3NpwMbSs20uqYSzjh9jiATFvhdeKbppcyKGeU_uVcQwCszcCon7UXEjiAUu4vyyr7oA3IYcS69LlloJWkbzWdUvQbxrrWUNQhSGRlHP4mhCNpeg/s320/IMG_1681.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Kristin </span>threading her little Harrisville loom at home </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">(picture taken by her daughter)</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> ------------------------------------------------</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong><em>Your location</em></strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I live in Chelmsford, MA (about 30 NW of Boston) and my studio is at Western Avenue Studios in Lowell, MA (http://www.westernavenuestudios.com/) - the building used to be a textile mill and it's on a canal!).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Random Facts about You?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I'm a former lawyer (IP litigation, but please don't ask me about copyright issues). I'm much happier now. :) I found out *after* I learned to weave that my Quebequois maternal grandmother was a mill-girl weaver here in Massachusetts in the early 1900s! I really am a fanatic skier - Stowe, VT and Alta, UT are two of my favorite places to ski (hubby and I downhill, cross-country, snowboard and telemark - and the kids are following in our tracks...). I envy my daughter's gorgeous red hair. And my hubby, Carlos, is my best friend in the world.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">How long ago did you start weaving?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I taught myself to weave in 2001 - I bought a little 4-harness loom form Harrisville Designs and built it over a weekend with much swearing and banged thumbs. (Harrisville, BTW, is a really pretty town in NH, and their intensive workshops are supposed to be huge amounts of fun.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What got you started weaving?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I just knew I'd like it... A college friend taught me to knit and I enjoyed that, but I picked up a book about weaving one day and knew I had to get my hands on a loom. I bought that first Harrisville loom when I was still working as an attorney and I'd never woven before then - I'd never even seen a loom in person at that point!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Any particular technique(s) that you enjoy the most?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hard to choose... When I was learning to weave, I was a structure person. Now I think I'm more interested in how color affects structure and vice versa. But true to my structure roots, I love designing new patterns. Fiberworks PCW is such fun to play with! Most of my designs never get woven at all, and the ones that do are usually just one-offs that I weave for fun and that never make it into my Etsy shop or a show booth. I'm also getting back into dyeing now the my kids are getting beyond the toddler stage (finally!).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What part the process makes you the most passionate? </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Oh, all of it. I love it when a design surprises me - when something looks very different after wet-finishing than I expected, e.g. I actually love warping, I really enjoy the feel of the fibers running through my fingers and threading heddles. Selling is probably my least favorite part, though I do enjoy talking with people that come to Open Studios at my studio building and explaining how looms work (everyone is interested when they see my two big looms at my studio - a 60" 12-shaft LeClerc Colonial and a 48" 16-shaft Weavebird/compudobby). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What is your source of inspiration?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I just keep my eyes open. Kids put colors together in amazing ways, they're fearless. I also think it's really important that the finished fabric be appropriate for its intended function (scarves should drape, rugs shouldn't). I also tend to group cones of yarn together in interesting colorways and let them sit there for a couple days, to see if I still like them, or maybe swap out a color or two... Design ideas seem to strike when I'm throwing the shuttle - I keep a little notebook in my loom bench to jot ideas down. Too many ideas, far too little time at this point.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Where do you sell?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I started selling only online but that's by far the smallest piece of my business now. I sell at a couple of large local shows every year, through Open Studios in my studio building on the first Saturday of every month, through a couple of galleries in New England and through the deCordova Museum store (by invitation). I participated in my Guild sale for a couple of years, too, which is a great way to get your feet wet!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Apart from creating things, what do you do?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I'm a board member of the Weavers' Guild of Boston, and I teach classes and lead seminars for area weaving guilds (I'll be leading three seminars at NEWS - the New England Weavers' Seminar - at Smith College this July, in case anyone is in the area!). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Outside of the weaving world, I'm a stay-at-home mom of two (our daughter is 7 and our son is 4 - so, in other words, I'm done with diaper duty and starting to feel like a chauffeur instead), an avid newbie gardener (I'm over-run with arugula and spinach at the moment! tomatoes, peppers, zucchini and broccoli are getting planted soon) and I love to bake bread. We ski in the winter and surf, kayak and bike in the summer. We love to travel and are planning to spend a year abroad about 5 years down the road, if things go according to plan (Spain or France - hubby Carlos' first language was Spanish, and I speak very poor French... Though we love the UK and Italy, too, and I would love to take a jacquard class at Fondazione Lisio in Florence... Hmm. Maybe a couple months in each!)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What first made you want to become an artist?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Weaving sort of found me... In high school and then at MIT and later in law school I didn't have time to take art classes and since I can't draw my way out of a paper bag, art school was never really a consideration for me. I've always loved working with my hands though - probably a legacy from my father, who was a baker (and made the best doughnuts ever!). I got my independent streak from my dad, too, I was never particularly happy in an office environment. I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of my legal practice, but the billable hours grind was awful (I worked for two very large firms). Making the leap into being a weaver was a pretty huge decision for me. Thank goodness for my very supportive husband! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Please describe your creative process: how, when, materials, etc.</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">One nice thing about weaving is that you can stop and start - which is pretty necessary when you've got two little ones to take care of! I try to spend two mornings a week in my studio, while my son is in preschool. And I often spend one weekend day over there as well, if I can manage it, though I do miss my hubby terribly when I do that. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As for materials, I lean towards luxury fibers, and fibers that don't make me itch. (Although the fact that cashmere makes me itch like the devil makes me want to cry. It's such lovely stuff.) Tencel and silk both take dye just gorgeously, and I like working with bamboo, too. Zephyr is another favorite of mine (50/50 wool/silk blend, made by Jaggerspun). Stainless steel/wool, paper, glow-in-the dark yarn, silk ribbons - all intrigue me and are on my (long) list of fibers to experiment with. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Process-wise, I like playing around on Fiberworks PCW. I *love* browsing through the huge library at my weavers' guild meetings. And I like looking beyond the weaving world for ideas, too - the artists in my building are amazing (there are about 200 of us at this point). On the weaving-process front, I warp at most three scarves at a time - only about 9 yards. I've found I lose interest when warps are longer than that (short attention span, I guess). I play around a lot with things that never make it into my shop - just because I enjoy making a project once doesn't mean I'll want to weave a bunch of them for my shop or a show, or that it would fit with my current shop aesthetic.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What handmade possession do you most cherish?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A linen cut-work tablecloth that my grandmother not only embroidered herself, but also grew the flax, spun the linen and wove it herself. That's pretty intense (processing flax is difficult work!). I've also got a quilt that she made from remnants of fabric from the textile mill she worked in that I really love.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What advice would you give to artists who are new to Etsy?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Don't get caught up in the numbers game! I see so many people get caught up in how many sales they have... I'd much rather have one $75 sale (and one trip to the post office) than five $15 sales... Besides, as weavers, it's hard for us to keep up with the sheer volume that other types of sellers can put out. Apart from that - Etsy is a very different place now than it was when I joined back in the dark ages. It's a lot harder to get seen now. I think that local shows and marketing are even more important now to start to build a customer base... Otherwise, great photography, excellent workmanship and a unique product are all important! Learn to develop a critical eye for your work - you don't have to put *everything* you weave in your shop, and I've found that having a coherent look really helps - both for your shop and for show booths. On the photography front - do a search for items similar to what you make, then really take notice of which thumbnails attract your attention (in a good way!) and why. Take all advice with a big heap of salt (including this advice! lol!). What works for one person doesn't necessarily work for anyone else. Figure out what works for you and be happy doing your own thing. And also know that you can step back from it whenever you want - if things get too crazy, it's ok to take some time off.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What do you like about Etsy?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It's so easy! You post things, people buy them. Neato. I also love that my work lives all over the world thanks to Etsy. And I've met some really interesting, kind, generous people through Etsy - and I found my studio thanks to an Etsy-friend who has a studio a couple doors down from me.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcD3lWDF3WzLiwek9x4mvrHZn6TdQMyqm4U1UNsR6QBgf4sk3gESbcXmlcIf-wRkfmttIYLX6L4Fdd8RTGNHf_O5Q4r4KE2fYfdprL6h6oLf7_sOE-Efod_4xN6ZyA8ePpalcnA0iHAE8/s1600/IMG_3952.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="251" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcD3lWDF3WzLiwek9x4mvrHZn6TdQMyqm4U1UNsR6QBgf4sk3gESbcXmlcIf-wRkfmttIYLX6L4Fdd8RTGNHf_O5Q4r4KE2fYfdprL6h6oLf7_sOE-Efod_4xN6ZyA8ePpalcnA0iHAE8/s320/IMG_3952.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">trio of bamboo scarves</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">How do you promote your work?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I don't. I sell at local shows, which helps a lot, and always hand out tons of cards and postcards. Having the monthly Open Studios helps, too. I seem to get a lot of first-time buyers on Etsy, and a steady trickle of custom work through Etsy as well (people find things they like in my sold items quite a bit, so I'm happy I keep good notes on past designs). Sooner or later I'll get coordinated and start a mailing list and follow all the advice in books like "I'd Rather Be In The Studio" and "Craft, Inc." but for now I sell basically everything that I can manage to weave (and then some, it feels like sometimes) so I haven't focused on promoting much at all. I am really picky about what shows I apply to, though, which helps.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What weaving activities or guilds to you participate in?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I'm a board member of the Weavers' Guild of Boston. I'd love to join a smaller guild or two, but I just don't have the time right now (having a high tech startup-founder hubby means I'm focused on the kids for the most part!). This past January I took an advanced weaving class at the John C Campbell Folk School in NC - what fun! An entire week thinking only of weaving, what a treat. (We worked on dyeing and creating crimp cloth using polyester yarn and woven shibori techniques, which I had played with for dying but not for crimping - sooo much fun!)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Do you have a website, blog, Facebook page, or other online endeavors?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">My website is:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>http://www.skiingweaver.com (I don't update it as much as I should and have yet to put a shopping cart on it...)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I've got a shop on Cargoh and get lots of views but no sales yet. My blog is pretty much defunct now. I spend too much time on Facebook (trying to cut back)! You can find me as myself and I have a Facebook page for my weaving, too:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/handwovenbykristinkelley">http://www.facebook.com/handwovenbykristinkelley</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWuw6gkfzzxSrE008MPtJ8oJaU26fPrPausjG1VhwQEOX99MGZDHqJUHfBL1ufkU5OpKUFLojqEQnyhxvwgvVmG9ehTI1e5d7UISPu23s1QnXPzE9F8v_I7lyJRDcWbe4pLEzXxAWVCGo/s1600/IMG_2794.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWuw6gkfzzxSrE008MPtJ8oJaU26fPrPausjG1VhwQEOX99MGZDHqJUHfBL1ufkU5OpKUFLojqEQnyhxvwgvVmG9ehTI1e5d7UISPu23s1QnXPzE9F8v_I7lyJRDcWbe4pLEzXxAWVCGo/s320/IMG_2794.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">picture of a shawl that the Store @ the deCordova Museum featured on its website</span></div>Etsy Weavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15470888493665773034noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347659091640102175.post-87304051040549749972011-06-10T18:53:00.000-07:002011-06-10T18:53:50.458-07:00Meet Aimee Radman from FiberFusion<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This week we continue our trip through United States. We have landed in Hampton, Minnesota (45 minutes south of the Twin Cities) to meet with the owner of the <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/FiberFusion"><span style="color: windowtext;"><strong>FiberFusion</strong></span></a> store on Etsy - <strong>Aimee B. Radman</strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Meet <strong>Aimee</strong> and visit her store <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/FiberFusion"><span style="color: windowtext;"><strong>FiberFusion</strong></span></a> as well as her website: <u><a href="http://www.mnartists.org/Aimee_Radman"><span style="color: windowtext;">http://www.mnartists.org/Aimee_Radman</span></a></u> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I grew up partly in the Air Force, so my family moved around quite a bit until I was 10 years old. I live on a small hobby farm now, I like to call it the “Fiber Farm”. We have a small flock of sheep and a guard llama.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I use their wool for spinning and weaving. I also like to dye some of it for felting. I have my weaving studio in our home.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">How long ago have you started weaving? </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I began weaving when I was nine years old. I became serious about it in college and have a bachelors degree in Broad Area Art emphasizing in Fiber Art.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I saw a rigid heddle loom at a store when I was young and wanted it so much. My mom surprised me with it later as a Christmas gift. I’ve been weaving ever since- I think it was fate!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I really love to do a lot of fiber techniques: weaving, dyeing, spinning, and felting. My favorite weaving techniques<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>are shadow weave and tapestry. I like to use hand dyed variegated yarns with shadow weave, I think it creates an interesting movement within the patterns. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I love choosing the colors and fibers to work with, designing a pattern to weave, and the actual weaving process. I have been known to have a stack of items that need their ends finished, which is my least favorite part of the weaving process.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I get a lot of inspiration from colors and shapes found in nature. I also like to look through fashion magazines at clothing designs, fabrics, and color trends for each season. I cut a lot of these photos out and put them into an art journal for later reference. It really helps me out with my design process. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Where do you sell? </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Besides online at Etsy, I sell at a few local galleries, art fairs occasionally, and Fiber Fair (Weavers Guild of MN sale).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Apart from creating things, what do you do? </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I’m a wife and a mother of two high school age children. I also teach weaving and dyeing classes up at the Weavers Guild of Minnesota. I am a shepherd to a small flock of sheep, I like to read, cook, and travel.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">What first made you want to become an artist? </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I’ve always loved making things, but when I was in college I knew I wanted to be an artist. Being submersed in so many fiber techniques and surrounded with so many artistic people made me realize how passionate I am about what I do. I have such a strong need to do something creative every day.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I am a night owl and get a lot of my ideas worked out in the evening but I prefer to do the actual creating in the late morning when I have the most energy. My stash is ever growing and changing. I like to look through it for color and texture inspiration. If I don’t have a shade I need I will dye some yarn to go with what I have on hand.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">What handmade possession do you most cherish? </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">My most cherished handmade item is a tapestry I made when my children were young. I wove it with all hand dyed wool yarn, some of it handspun. I love the colors and theme. It took many hours but was very therapeutic during a hectic time in our lives. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">What advice would you give to artists who are new to Etsy? </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Stick with it! I think it takes a few months if not more to get yourself known and seen. Good photography is also very important. I am still learning new things all the time. It has helped so much to read the advice of others and to keep up with what’s new.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">What do you like about Etsy? </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I like that you can reach people all over the world with your art on Etsy. There is so much more potential for exposure on the internet and Etsy makes it much easier than creating your own website.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">What weaving activities or guilds to you participate in? </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I am a member and teacher at the Weavers Guild Of Minnesota. I also belong to the Handweavers Guild of America and the Textile Center of Minnesota.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Etsy Weavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15470888493665773034noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347659091640102175.post-88755652656114075942011-06-02T19:37:00.000-07:002011-06-02T19:37:07.590-07:00Meet Jennifer (JD) from JDStar<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">After couple of weeks of silence (sometimes silence is much needed to regain the sense of direction) I wanted to take you all to Oklahoma City (Oklahoma State, US) to meet the owner of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JDStar Ltd. Co</b>., the </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/JDStar?ref=si_shop"><span style="color: windowtext;">JDStar</span></a></span></b><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> store on Etsy. </span></span></span><br />
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I also hate to leave the house but love road trips.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">What got you started weaving?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">I started weaving about 9 years ago when I saw someone doing it in a fiber class I was taking.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Any particular technique(s) that you enjoy the most?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">What part the process makes you the most passionate? (Choosing the right materials, the actual process, the end result, the sale, etc.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Choosing colors is my favorite process closely followed by seeing the colors come together in the weaving.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">What is your source of inspiration?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">I find weaving to be so therapeutic. That's mainly what inspires me to do it. It's repetitive and productive so it works for me.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Where do you sell?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">I sell online on Etsy and in real life in several stores around the United States. I also do craft shows occasionally.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Apart from creating things, what do you do?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">I take care of my one year old. That keeps me pretty busy these days. I also run a craft show with my BFF (“Best Friend Forever”)called Deluxe Indie Craft Bazaar. It's a one day show once a year but there are always little things that need to be taken care of around the year.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">What first made you want to become an artist?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">I've always loved making things and drawing. It's either in my blood or deeply ingrained in my DNA. Either way, it's just something that's as natural as breathing for me. I didn't find weaving until adulthood but it's become a huge part of who I am now and I like it that way.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">What handmade possession do you most cherish?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Definitely my inkle loom. It's the loom that I use almost all of the time so it's pretty important to making my bracelets but working with my mother to build it really makes using it something special! </span><br />
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<div class="username" sizcache="15" sizset="112"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/TheHermitsLoom"><span style="font-size: large;">TheHermitsLoom</span></a> presenting absolutely stunning <a href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d7d4b07fa418eef3568ff06/serenity"><span style="font-size: large;">Serenity</span></a> treasury:</div><div class="username" sizcache="15" sizset="112"><br />
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</div><div class="username" sizcache="15" sizset="112">and <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/tisserande"><span style="font-size: large;">tisserande</span></a> with its Unique ideas for Mother's day - treasury called <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4da3035a6f488eef59684751/something-special">Something Special</a></span></div><div class="username" sizcache="15" sizset="112"><br />
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</div><div class="username" sizcache="15" sizset="112">Congratulations to both of you!</div><div class="username" sizcache="15" sizset="112"><br />
</div><div class="username" sizcache="15" sizset="112">Alvant</div><div class="username" sizcache="15" sizset="112">Captain of Etsy Weavers team</div>Etsy Weavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15470888493665773034noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347659091640102175.post-61130283273314085222011-04-22T11:16:00.000-07:002011-04-22T11:16:14.036-07:00Interview with Mirella - Mireloom store<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On a gorgeous day like today, a Happy Friday for many of us, I would like to take you on a tour to Turin (Torino), Italy. Here we’re going to have a delightful time with our weaver Mirella from <a href="http://www.mirtextile.etsy.com/">Mireloom</a> store. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mirella’s story is full of magic, artistry and inspiration.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">About a month ago Mirella was featured on Etsy Blog called “<a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/handmade-life/open-studio-tour-mireloom-7427/">Open Studio Tour</a>”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Random Facts about You?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I live with my husband in a little town near Torino, in North Italy. My grownup daughter lives in downtown Torino by herself. Our house is situated along the river Po, near a wonderful park where I often take walks and pick plants for my hand dyeing. I always wanted to live in the woods, but my husband is a city person, so this is a good compromise for both of us! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We are passionate travellers and our best travel experience was in South East Asia. There I got to know a few prominent weavers who were also very nice people. That trip made me fall in love with Thai weaving. I was inspired by those textiles where weavers play, in such a creative way, with their ancient geometric symbols! In my artistic textiles I get play with some of those symbols like hooks, spirals and so on. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5ieBtQa3_5AHkTNs3KXid_ppihIFVEcqHY2X6LP61CJs9ofOhqDQoawiFq18G8ECloBpDRGOTjnGyMeTwFesHwPSPE83Z3wiyZKhJ2qOk-6FpHpX7eMwpAJ_ym_gKxM60dqCiqghFc-k/s1600/117_1737.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" i8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5ieBtQa3_5AHkTNs3KXid_ppihIFVEcqHY2X6LP61CJs9ofOhqDQoawiFq18G8ECloBpDRGOTjnGyMeTwFesHwPSPE83Z3wiyZKhJ2qOk-6FpHpX7eMwpAJ_ym_gKxM60dqCiqghFc-k/s320/117_1737.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">From my childhood I was an art lover because of my parents who were always about finding beauty in everything. So I grew up thinking to become an artist or find some creative work in my life. But I never could distinguish between an artist, a designer or a hand-crafter. So the final decision of “who to become” was never made. It's so difficult for me to separate those three things... I'm - all of it together! Luckily I was supported by my family members, still helping me to grow my work, even though they do different work from mine (she is a translator and he is a geologist)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">How long ago have you started weaving?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Almost thirty years ago, after getting my anthropology degree, I went to a weaving school....my parents weren't so happy about that! ;-)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What got you started weaving?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When I was a teenager I went in Stockholm where I visited the crafts museum, and there I had a sudden inspiration! There I saw the fiber-art that captured my imagination! But the most important thing was ….. Love! I fell in love with a Dutch boy when I was nineteen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He educated me about an ancient weaver and her big loom, as big as a room... The image of that loom and beautiful work on it is still vivid in my mind...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Any particular technique(s) that you enjoy the most? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Even though on Etsy I list my simplest work, I very much love intricate techniques, double weaving, warp and weft substitution, often combined. Even more I love tapestries. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What part the process makes you the most passionate? </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Hmm... If I make a tapestry I like every phase of the work, (the warping - not so much ;-)))) from the idea to the result. But making scarves or a shawl - after the first 3<sup>rd</sup> one I'm already thinking – what’s next!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What is your source of inspiration? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Many! Colours of nature, art, some accidental ideas from films, magazines and (why not!?!?!?) sometimes after looking at the work of another fiber artist I jump with a new idea of my own!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTPdw3vB-HYIJKuyjimMyJ6OxPmt0iZz3Wagqk2hRHVU7fpGUz7awufCqrz6vW4MvgeavKMR0oZqzIsSuGsQicQJIFgcu7e5l1c8Eebd0bFzyd0mfFcPEgjSaTBrU-4jDSQN4knLhwdHM/s1600/DSCN0126.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" i8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTPdw3vB-HYIJKuyjimMyJ6OxPmt0iZz3Wagqk2hRHVU7fpGUz7awufCqrz6vW4MvgeavKMR0oZqzIsSuGsQicQJIFgcu7e5l1c8Eebd0bFzyd0mfFcPEgjSaTBrU-4jDSQN4knLhwdHM/s320/DSCN0126.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Where do you sell?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Hand craft markets for shawls, bags, and scarves; at an art gallery, and naturally on Etsy.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Apart from creating things, what do you do?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As I told before I'm a passionate traveller, even around my own house, where I always discover a new hidden corner!.. I also love drawing and looking for wild herbs for eating or dyeing….I know so many of them! Even more I love to read, to take walks, to meet with my friends and have entertaining dinners with them!!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What first made you want to become an artist?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Perhaps the art books that I had seen in my parent’s house from when I was a child, and also the fact that we have so many artists in our family!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Please describe your creative process: how, when, materials, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Materials are a big source of inspiration! Sometimes I think for a long time with a ball of yarn in my hand, trying to create some work specifically out of this yarn!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sometimes it’s a sudden idea, just when I am about to fall asleep, or during the night, when I can’t sleep...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxSt6IkFkIXz417_DGbzJiKENod_MeWPOoH6mbyLt9LcC1gY1Pymr5N1MKswtwk8WgaRwwPDxhxTG9McE3WJEOUsETozYMZUhCbUv0RUzBBT71e8oR0gV6tf3gKQ_HNmg7y9DMd0aer54/s1600/117_1704.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" i8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxSt6IkFkIXz417_DGbzJiKENod_MeWPOoH6mbyLt9LcC1gY1Pymr5N1MKswtwk8WgaRwwPDxhxTG9McE3WJEOUsETozYMZUhCbUv0RUzBBT71e8oR0gV6tf3gKQ_HNmg7y9DMd0aer54/s320/117_1704.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Which of your creative knowledge do you cherish the most?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Definitely the tapestry technique</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What advice would you give to artists who are new to Etsy?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Don't get discouraged, but don't become slaves to Etsy!!! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What do you like about Etsy? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I like it for many reasons! It is beautiful aesthetically, and most importantly it gives me the chance to get <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in touch with many people who love craft and weaving, and more because it is like a game where you can win sometimes and have some success!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">How do you promote your work? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I have a gallery that promotes my fiber art works. I also go to art and craft markets. I do more on Etsy, for example by creating a treasury…hoping for the FP!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What weaving activities or guilds to you participate in?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I’m a member of Coordinamento Tessitori <a href="http://www.coordinamentotessitori.it/">http://www.coordinamentotessitori.it/</a> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- the Weavers Association that gathers weavers from all Italy. Every year it organizes a very beautiful meeting in Torino. I’m also a part of a fiber art group that helps me to participate in many art shows.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Do you have a website, blog, Facebook page, or other online endeavours?</span><span lang="IT"></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 3pt;"><span lang="IT"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mireloom/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/mireloom/</a>;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span lang="IT"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.blurb.com/my/book/detail/1716163">http://www.blurb.com/my/book/detail/1716163</a> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 3pt;"><span lang="IT"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/handmade-life/open-studio-tour-mireloom-7427/" target="_blank">http://www.etsy.com/storque/handmade-life/open-studio-tour-mireloom-7427/</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 3pt;"><span lang="IT"><a href="http://www.mirtextiles.blogspot.com/">http://www.mirtextiles.blogspot.com/</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjASamwyBcyhasWi-LcCNw1EWA7b6bDb_c8CaBiAbuk7DtuTY6K_rNEMfXc3DXyz6q7vsNOwvP5qP02pU93xyDeV6O6h3IoqmIzS52fdz9NsQS1aSfvinx8VH88ZslP3wtZLJMb6NrU8qk/s1600/IMG_9855.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" i8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjASamwyBcyhasWi-LcCNw1EWA7b6bDb_c8CaBiAbuk7DtuTY6K_rNEMfXc3DXyz6q7vsNOwvP5qP02pU93xyDeV6O6h3IoqmIzS52fdz9NsQS1aSfvinx8VH88ZslP3wtZLJMb6NrU8qk/s320/IMG_9855.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Etsy Weavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15470888493665773034noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347659091640102175.post-34047209288987350442011-04-07T19:39:00.000-07:002011-04-07T19:39:23.178-07:00Interview with Greg Newham<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div><span>Hello Team,</span><br />
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<span>today I wanted to present an interview with someone who has been weaving professionally for ... over 40 years... What you're about to read and see is guaranteed to blow your mind... </span><br />
<span>Additionally Greg has been a great supporter of Etsy Weavers team from the day one. He has offered great advices and serious critique (I do appreciate both!) out of passionate effort to make Etsy experience a worthy one for all of us.</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Greg is located in Kinston, New York ( Hudson Valley region )</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Please visit his Etsy store:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.etsy.com/people/FitchStudioWeavers"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;">fitchstudioweavers</span></span></a></span></div><br />
<span>I proudly present to you <span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Greg Newham</strong></span> and his story.</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Random facts about you:</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I live and work in the Hudson Valley of New York State with my partner of twenty-seven years, Jay Halpern and our newest charge, a five month old, five pound Yorkie named Percy. I am the fourth generation of weavers from my father’s side – my grandfather and his father were lace weavers from Nottingham England. My current studio is a historic brick church dating from 1884 – stained glass windows and all.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">How / when did you begin weaving?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">It was quite accidental - I was working on a Masters in Music, studying clarinet. A friend wanted to change careers and was interested in pursuing a craft – weaving was mentioned. Since I was unfamiliar with “weaving”, I went to the library and borrowed several books for my friend, but I ended up reading them. In trying to encourage my friend, I ended up becoming consumed by the discipline. Soon we were purchasing a loom in NYC – in 1973. The saleswoman asked what we would do with it and I said, “Start a business weaving rugs”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She asked if we knew how to weave…?.... No….well she taught weaving….and so it began. My partner’s brother was a noted interior designer in NYC. I spent a whole summer in an apartment in NY teaching myself to weave, and taking lessons from Johanna Laurie who had studied in France and Scandinavia. That fall we presented the “new samples” to his brother and he referred us to another designer who made a call which put us in the offices of one of the most prestigious interior design firms in NY. The first rugs I wove on commission were for the weekend home of Carter Brown, at that time the director of the National Gallery. With these orders in hand we relocated to Woodstock, NY where I studied with Iona Plath - a noted weaver and author. Time flew by; now it is nearly forty years later – and I still create custom textiles to order for the interior design trade. I like to say in that time I have woven “to the Moon and back, at least several times.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 114.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Any particular techniques you enjoy the most</span>?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 114.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Since most of my technique is “self-learned” from many years of hands-on work, I will say it is difficult to choose any one aspect. I hand dye yarns, creating space dyed coloring since nearly the beginning. I weave very large “constructed” area rugs – i.e. woven in panels and hand seamed so patterns match meticulously over 25-30 feet in length; I also weave throws and upholstery fabric….and I like to create scarves too! In truth, I enjoy the range of processes necessary to produce the finished textiles, whatever it may be.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 114.0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 114.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">What part of the process makes you the most passionate?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 114.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Again, this is really hard to differentiate for me, because the whole process is a continuum – meaning you begin with the concept be it the design and/or coloring, continuing on to choosing and preparing the necessary materials. Once they are secured it is on to the physical steps of warping and setting-up the loom and then the weaving. (I find warping the loom very satisfying ….and the actual weaving has been my life’s work. Assembling and finishing these large textiles gives the sense of completion. )</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 114.0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 114.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">What is your source of inspiration?</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 114.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">This is another question I cannot pinpoint a succinct answer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ideas come to me at any time, many I do not act on for years. I am a very visual and tactile person and there is inspiration even in mundane daily tasks. Finally, my clients over the years have provided a stimulus that is unfathomable. I have worked for many of the most noted American interior designers and architects. These extremely talented people are constantly providing their input.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I many times feel that I am most creative at “solving a problem” given very specific limitations – that is fulfilling the desires of a design professional so that my textile is compatible with the whole concept of the room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are generally very high-end projects.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Bbr8-V1JCfPz-sZfFBSFhLq8_wtPbaYU9ohAxC0YnPYzOeaUSlEzHxsk9NPx4y1PxA8-QUbhIRuCleoykj50w7bmCIuFpNUM-jU4nKbtsADQyhGFM_1NZgt3-XiYf-lYQnnHSjXtpjc/s1600/LoomsGoing.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Bbr8-V1JCfPz-sZfFBSFhLq8_wtPbaYU9ohAxC0YnPYzOeaUSlEzHxsk9NPx4y1PxA8-QUbhIRuCleoykj50w7bmCIuFpNUM-jU4nKbtsADQyhGFM_1NZgt3-XiYf-lYQnnHSjXtpjc/s320/LoomsGoing.jpeg" width="213" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 114.0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Inteview by Alvant, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Captain of Etsy Weavers team</div>Etsy Weavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15470888493665773034noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347659091640102175.post-56623632836456127392011-04-01T11:02:00.000-07:002011-04-01T11:02:24.805-07:00Meet our Team - Interview with Leslie<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Doing interviews with my members brings me so much joy... I always get such a thrill when see it finished. Every single member of our team is so unique and amazing...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Leslie represents the <strong>store</strong> called “<a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/coffeebreakdesigns?ref=si_shop"><span style="font-size: large;">Coffee Break Designs</span></a>” </span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Random Facts about You?</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I have a BA in English, and MS in Education but I’ve only ever tutored. I was a nanny at one time. And a trade show coordinator (not at the same time). I am fascinated with the past, in that I would like to travel back in time. I have been teaching myself to play guitar for the last year and I love to write songs and sing. The jury is still out on that, though. I’ve done one open mic back in February and plan to do more!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">How long ago have you started weaving?</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’ve been weaving since 2006.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What got you started weaving?</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This is a long story but it has a point (and an ending). I’ve wanted to weave for a long time. I learned to knit from my grandmother and aunt when I was very young, did that for a while but dropped it until maybe 10 years ago. By then there were so many luscious and interesting yarns that I really became addicted to yarn. I still wanted to learn to weave but the whole loom, weaving thing seemed so big and complicated (where do I get a loom, they seem expensive, where do I put it, how do I do it, what if I don’t like it?). So, I decided to try spinning (seems like such an obvious alternative, right???). I purchased a drop spindle and fiber kit. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It was then that I decided that I could learn to weave if I took some classes to demystify the process. So I did and here I am. </span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Any particular technique(s) that you enjoy the most?</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">There are many I have not tried or have only tried a couple of times. I’d have to say that I am in love with the undulating twills. They seem to move, especially when using complementary colors.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What is your source of inspiration?</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mostly my inspiration comes from possible color combinations. However, one very early morning I was watching something on CPTV about some artists in Central America and a civil war, I think. The show was in Spanish so I didn’t understand it. There was one picture, though, of the side of a barn or some wooden building. It painted red long ago, but weathered to gray and shadows of black. It mesmerized me and I wanted to recreate that in a scarf. I made two or three that came out wonderful. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaONGyeTmXTVs6ZXm_xsUdq1PHtb495oPHzLG8aUf5WA0uekhZ30hCQtV1cdNalAEvbLqjqgzPZvkRGhRUGP1XVRAjA7QCTSc43UxfrPSbGU9Qhr9Rh-hJptcjRqAJ6RSPBTm4lZAICsk/s1600/Pantomime1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaONGyeTmXTVs6ZXm_xsUdq1PHtb495oPHzLG8aUf5WA0uekhZ30hCQtV1cdNalAEvbLqjqgzPZvkRGhRUGP1XVRAjA7QCTSc43UxfrPSbGU9Qhr9Rh-hJptcjRqAJ6RSPBTm4lZAICsk/s320/Pantomime1.jpg" width="288" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Where do you sell?</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Apart from my Etsy store, I have a few things on Artfire. I sell in some boutiques in Connecticut. I also attend the Coventry Farmers’ Market several times during the summer and fall. And last year I joined a small, local women’s artisans group and we put on an art show each June (this will be our second year).</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Apart from creating things, what do you do?</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That’s basically what I do now.</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What first made you want to become an artist?</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I think I always have been an artist, ever since I can remember, although not in a “That’s my job” sort of way. My belief is that everyone is creative. My husband’s education is in chemical engineering and while it is common to differentiate creative types (traditional artists like painters, musicians, etc.) from scientists, I have witnessed the development of an idea/solution from the most basic creative question, “What if . . . ?” To me, it is like breathing. I think if you took away all my yarn, paper, pencils, my camera, I would try to make something out of paper clips and sticks, no matter how weird it looked.</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Please describe your creative process: how, when, materials, etc.</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sometimes it feels like my creative process is constant –When I’m driving; when I’m out shopping with my husband and he is looking at some plumbing supplies and I am bored and wondering what I could make with all those fittings; in the middle of the night – you get the idea.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY9Jflc2eL4j-8EglQ4vIH4O5LQxiChlArAHR_-synIcFTCYP9oqHt1ixASRgEtaJ3tTqydWXX1I_Tiz7mjxhcAvOzP0tyMAfw-szqrWi18M-Bb2zii93VIYsRYT5LG5_T8HJXxzO9PA0/s1600/Furnace1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY9Jflc2eL4j-8EglQ4vIH4O5LQxiChlArAHR_-synIcFTCYP9oqHt1ixASRgEtaJ3tTqydWXX1I_Tiz7mjxhcAvOzP0tyMAfw-szqrWi18M-Bb2zii93VIYsRYT5LG5_T8HJXxzO9PA0/s320/Furnace1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What handmade possession do you most cherish?</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My grandmother seemed to be the most prolific knitter/tatter/crocheter but that could have been because that’s just the way it was back then. I never owned a store-bought sweater until I was in my teens. I’d have to say that anything I still have of hers is most cherished. I have a couple of tatted tablecloths I use at the holidays. I also have an afghan and a sweater she made for me when I was about 11.</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What advice would you give to artists who are new to Etsy?</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Be patient. You may or may not make your first sale in the first two weeks or even the first two months but don’t give up. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Take GREAT photographs! Partner with someone who is a good photographer or learn as much as you can. (I’m still learning loads!) Emulate the photography that you love – what makes you want to look at the item for sale?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Variety. By that I mean, put new things in your shop as often as you can.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuaLOuxfz056N438vscis15HTnL3SHXbhvWHSwKXtZeUo7g_2LP_qL164c2SgzUaIsd-2umbYAtRAZVEP_m4YnIFw8Ta8OibqluGyO1YGQjOAWxOVQfhD1K0cum50Z6oHZGBdJhXCfCk8/s1600/WaterLilies.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuaLOuxfz056N438vscis15HTnL3SHXbhvWHSwKXtZeUo7g_2LP_qL164c2SgzUaIsd-2umbYAtRAZVEP_m4YnIFw8Ta8OibqluGyO1YGQjOAWxOVQfhD1K0cum50Z6oHZGBdJhXCfCk8/s320/WaterLilies.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">How do you promote your work?</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That’s always a challenge, in that I could, literally, spend an entire day on the internet trying to do that. This is an area where I am still learning. Right now I use Twitter, my own Facebook page, my Coffee Break Designs Facebook page, Ravelry a little bit. I blog. I have a link to my Etsy shop on the bottom of my emails, a link on my YouTube page (which has nothing to do with weaving), on my MySpace page, which I haven’t gone to in months. I think that’s it. Sometimes it becomes a jumbled mess in my head.</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What weaving activities or guilds to you participate in?</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="background: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">None now. People always ask. Maybe I should.</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="background: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Do you have a website, blog, Facebook page, or other online endeavors?</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yes!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://coffeebreakdesigns-lamb.blogspot.com/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">http://coffeebreakdesigns-lamb.blogspot.com/</span></span></a></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/coffeebreakdesign"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">http://www.ravelry.com/projects/coffeebreakdesign</span></span></a></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Coffee-Break-Designs/104877405218"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">http://www.facebook.com/pages/Coffee-Break-Designs/104877405218</span></span></a></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/gardensgallerygifts"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">http://www.facebook.com/gardensgallerygifts</span></span></a></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=73522011&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Linked In</span></span></a></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Calibri;">You see what I mean?! Great talents! I wanted to wish Leslie lots of success with everything what her hand, mind and heart touches.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Calibri;">Alvant</span><br />
<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Calibri;">Captain of Etsy Weavers team</span><br />
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</div>Etsy Weavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15470888493665773034noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347659091640102175.post-34694026002317555752011-03-28T20:03:00.000-07:002011-03-28T20:03:50.625-07:00Weekly Treasury winners!Dear all,<br />
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it has been a while since we posted treasuries created by our team members.<br />
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Here are the two that certainly won our hearts:<br />
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1) <a href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d89f94593e06d91ec39d06e/spring-colors-from-weavers-workshops">"Spring colors from weavers workshops!"</a> treasury created by <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/Mireloom">Mireloom</a>, featuring many members of our team!!!!<br />
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2) Beautiful "<a href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d7d4b07fa418eef3568ff06/serenity">Serenity</a>" treasury created by <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/TheHermitsLoom">TheHermitsLoom</a>, featuring our team member Amy <a href="http://www.etsy.com/people/aclhandweaver">aclhandweaver</a><br />
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We encourage you to check them out, click on your favorite items and make new friends by creating new "Favorites"<br />
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Great job, guys!<br />
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Captain of Etsy Weavers teamEtsy Weavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15470888493665773034noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347659091640102175.post-70874704525609240752011-03-18T08:10:00.000-07:002011-03-18T08:10:13.024-07:00Meet our Team - Interview with Pamela<div style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><div style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;">“I cherish my “handmade” life” </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Today we feature our interview with <strong>Pamela</strong>, representing the <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/inkleing">“inkleing”</a> store</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ6dFa-iKAxi39y7PNu-LxveV0EZy_7PXmJnL-3W9xrr3qZKd_d-SEXi5UA-EYeM_j2DivFKFenD72bcn6D9nYMJq5Aaq6L7cu0gdDis_csZ83MRssdL-_aeyMrhoG6LHE4qOrlVL72AU/s1600/Pamela.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ6dFa-iKAxi39y7PNu-LxveV0EZy_7PXmJnL-3W9xrr3qZKd_d-SEXi5UA-EYeM_j2DivFKFenD72bcn6D9nYMJq5Aaq6L7cu0gdDis_csZ83MRssdL-_aeyMrhoG6LHE4qOrlVL72AU/s1600/Pamela.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I live and work in the wilds of New Mexico the “Land of Enchantment”</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The name of your store</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The name of my store is “inkleing” spelled with a small “i”. It’s a play on a type of loom I sometimes use, little ideas and the writing group “The Inklings” that had Tolkien, Lewis and other writers from the 1930's and 40’s as members. I am an avid reader!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">URL location on Etsy: <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/inkleing">http://www.etsy.com/shop/inkleing</a></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Random Facts about You? </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I grow most of my own food, keep chickens (for eggs not eating) and I’m a beekeeper… how’s that for random.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I spin and make my own natural plant dyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m also a wicked woodworker and build my own looms and weaving frames.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">How long ago have you started weaving?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s been several years I don’t remember exactly. In recent years it’s been mostly Tablet Weaving.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">What got you started weaving?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ha ha… I started weaving when I realized that I have no talent for knitting… none what so ever. Can a person have two left hands? LOL</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Any particular technique(s) that you enjoy the most?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Absolutely, Tablet Weaving is my favorite. I love the fact that it requires very little in the way of equipment a few cards with holes and a frame, that’s it! I made my own frame from a picture of one found on the Oseberg Viking Burial ship. </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHIl4l4lb-tV6KWLuxJFt5o5ff3-WquO6YOa-nNp3WXnSlc5JDPxPhbfuIVe9fwmxLgDH3vcan4Heo84y3aR1VSwWg5i9RgjPqO5xhlE_LSmLl53aW-0wTpdntTj8FIdCJ9SM4Ur-uJ4E/s1600/Tablet+Loom.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHIl4l4lb-tV6KWLuxJFt5o5ff3-WquO6YOa-nNp3WXnSlc5JDPxPhbfuIVe9fwmxLgDH3vcan4Heo84y3aR1VSwWg5i9RgjPqO5xhlE_LSmLl53aW-0wTpdntTj8FIdCJ9SM4Ur-uJ4E/s320/Tablet+Loom.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">What part the process makes you the most passionate?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For me it’s not about the sale or the end result. The process and the experience of doing something that’s been done the same way for more than a thousand years it what does it for me. You just can’t beat Iron Age technology! </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">What is your source of inspiration?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wow that’s a tough question. I draw from so many things for inspiration. Sometimes a trip to a Museum to look at ancient textiles, I can stand and stare at a fragment of cloth or trim for hours. I also keep a pad of quad paper and a jar of colored pencils out at all times. You never know when inspiration will strike. We have the most amazing Sunrises here all I really have to do is step outside and there it is painted in the sky. </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9qAlcTEDvrEFCwnFTxuzeXjjR7luAUv-JZ8ASCVuepA_vT0z-fmWuHy5gVjYQU3Jdxlw7gYmiLhVSEKovmJsbWbx6oHzRr4n5g3KMuGrvHXyMtsWGMvyOM35A1a9ck-I2h6cnyWzrtqE/s1600/100_3122.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9qAlcTEDvrEFCwnFTxuzeXjjR7luAUv-JZ8ASCVuepA_vT0z-fmWuHy5gVjYQU3Jdxlw7gYmiLhVSEKovmJsbWbx6oHzRr4n5g3KMuGrvHXyMtsWGMvyOM35A1a9ck-I2h6cnyWzrtqE/s1600/100_3122.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Where do you sell?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of my business is word of mouth and referral I do a tremendous amount of custom work. Occasionally at the Renn Faire and SCA events and until very recently on Ebay I just closed my shop of 10 years in October and of course Etsy!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apart from creating things, what do you do?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hike in the spring and summer with my Border Collie Grace, my best friend and constant companion. A favorite past time is “Shed Hunting” hunting for the antlers that deer and elk drop in the early spring every year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Really that is more of a work related thing since I use those for Runes and jewelry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the winter I study early Medieval Migration Period history, art and textiles, take classes or whatever else strikes my fancy. It's pretty cold here in the winter we sit at just below 6000' so it does freeze and snow. It's not what people think of when they think New Mexico.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOFMngYV7J6XYPyJK-8uiVJyOI_CkuT4entpP__jyS-3k7zWlCvvAfZYm6k6mfO5bYYU07couyV_9-SUo_6G_qh2V7CPs8NBhMulYydGfssISUsSiVUuuzZCVZU3cn0_b4AJ7-B3lKBo0/s1600/Grace.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOFMngYV7J6XYPyJK-8uiVJyOI_CkuT4entpP__jyS-3k7zWlCvvAfZYm6k6mfO5bYYU07couyV_9-SUo_6G_qh2V7CPs8NBhMulYydGfssISUsSiVUuuzZCVZU3cn0_b4AJ7-B3lKBo0/s1600/Grace.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">What first made you want to become an artist? </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m pretty sure that happened in kindergarten when we did our little handprints in clay!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I worked at a “real” job I was a make-up artist for Estee Lauder for 12 years. I guess it is always there front and center or just off in the periphery.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Please describe your creative process</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That would depend on the purpose of the piece.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it’s a piece of period trim I ask lots of questions. What fabric it will be paired with, is there a persona, character, role or part you are playing?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it’s a Tarot or Rune bag I need to know the deck being used or divination tool that the bag will hold. I prefer to use natural fabrics and fibers. Then again sometimes I just have a pattern or color combination stuck in my mind that has to come out to make room for other things. </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">What handmade possession do you most cherish? </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would be impossible to pick just one thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess I would have to say I cherish my “handmade” life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I try to make or buy handmade whenever possible. I have many thing in my home created by friends and I cherish each and every one of those things.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">What advice would you give to artists who are new to Etsy?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep it fun and do what you love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My target audience is fairly limited but it is those people and that lifestyle that I am most passionate about, so for me high sales and big numbers is not the point of my Etsy shop, I just love it that my stuff is out there. I think the most important thing is to examine what it is you want from the experience. </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">What do you like about Etsy?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love that is basically a handmade world (with a side trip to the vintage store..always welcome) it can be hard at times to stand out but there seems to be a niche for everyone.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">How do you promote your work?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m pretty much a referral business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do like the new "Circles" feature Esty has it really helps to promote your own things and the items and shops that you have marked as a favorite. I do have a personal Facebook page but no blog no website no twitter....yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mostly because I have so many other activities I just can’t fit those things in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus I need 8 hours of sleep. (Remember I love Iron Age technology) LOL</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">What weaving activities or guilds to you participate in?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m a member of Las Aranas Spinners and Weavers Guild here in New Mexico and I take a few classes every year at the best shop in the state “Village Wools"</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"></div></span></span></i></div>Etsy Weavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15470888493665773034noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347659091640102175.post-85644932843689414212011-03-11T11:57:00.000-08:002011-03-11T11:57:56.929-08:00Interview with Lynn<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hello all,</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">the best way to end the week is to meet another great member of our team - Lynn.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">She is a bit discrete, but that doesn't diminish her fascinating personality!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">----------------------</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Your name, your location, the name of your store, URL location on Etsy</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">My name is Lynn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I live by a lake in upstate New York near the Vermont border, in the United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My loom is on the enclosed porch right next to the lake, so I have a wonderful view while I am weaving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I design and weave one-of-a-kind scarves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My shop is called <strong>LoomOnTheLake</strong> and it’s at </span><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/loomonthelake"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">http://www.etsy.com/shop/loomonthelake</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhODIDPpZGblX6dhBVXVIGf2V7nldYnMUPUpJI2CpJlFdo0cxBujzju7XADH8qZQQ-IMIDPgiCuKO5uPask7Mg-6ELXEmm0vDefAMOcBMzPWR8QKSEhcwaLRBUiq-11f8W03FSxvZMhA7Q/s1600/100524+lake.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="227" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhODIDPpZGblX6dhBVXVIGf2V7nldYnMUPUpJI2CpJlFdo0cxBujzju7XADH8qZQQ-IMIDPgiCuKO5uPask7Mg-6ELXEmm0vDefAMOcBMzPWR8QKSEhcwaLRBUiq-11f8W03FSxvZMhA7Q/s320/100524+lake.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Random Facts about You?</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I play the recorder (soprano, alto, tenor, bass, and great bass) with an ensemble of talented musicians, both amateur and professional.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In our concerts, we have performed music ranging from some written in medieval times through baroque and classical music to contemporary music composed the year we played it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">My education is highly technical.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My scientific career has involved much original and creative thinking, some of which has used a lot of mathematics and has been of a very abstract nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Outside of my career, I’ve done design work in areas such as architecture and civil engineering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I’ve thought creatively both in abstract and in concrete ways.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What got you started weaving?</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I wanted to put something over my recorders to protect them from the sunlight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I bought a used floor loom and taught myself how to weave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is true!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi07elltDfIUieqUCcXiozeee-HY21R7vHk67BWvfGOTMqiIhwG7GxcffFMNUhJBuCUkwZmDI_zzS0yYNw4wOxb4ma_1T74U3PDK28hhqeZXgvrFNKwKh1TbZ_TvEwz6y1cQilTLN88Zrw/s1600/110226+loom.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi07elltDfIUieqUCcXiozeee-HY21R7vHk67BWvfGOTMqiIhwG7GxcffFMNUhJBuCUkwZmDI_zzS0yYNw4wOxb4ma_1T74U3PDK28hhqeZXgvrFNKwKh1TbZ_TvEwz6y1cQilTLN88Zrw/s320/110226+loom.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What part of the process makes you the most passionate? (Choosing the right materials, the actual process, the end result, the sale, etc.)</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">I like both designing and weaving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a sense, they represent the abstract and the concrete parts of a process, respectively.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not interested in weaving the same thing over and over again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once I’ve woven a scarf and my curiosity is satisfied, I’m ready to design a different one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Whenever I finish a scarf, I analyze which elements are pleasing and which are not. Then on to the next! </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Making a sale is of secondary importance to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it is very satisfying to have customers who appreciate what I have woven.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What is your source of inspiration?</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Nature and music.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am fortunate to live in an extraordinarily beautiful location.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Things are always changing and they are always beautiful: the jaggedness of pine branches, snow on the frozen lake, a spectacular sunset, autumn colors in the mountains, whitecaps on the lake before a storm, moss and pinecones on a rock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My creativity comes at the time I see something. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since weaving is a slow process, I finish an autumn scarf as winter approaches or one about snow and ice as people are thinking about spring. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I’m going to create what I want to, rather than what “the market” wants me to do at a certain time.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Music plays a large part in my weaving, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sheer act of treadling and throwing a shuttle is easy for me because of my musical training.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Playing music and weaving reinforce each other in unexpected ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes, when practicing a technical musical passage, it helps to play the notes backwards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s sort of like reading a draft from right to left instead of left to right (or vice versa).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I play music, I am aware of patterns and wonder how I can incorporate them in my weaving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve done this in many different ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes I’ve mentioned this in the description of a scarf and other times it’s my secret.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">One of my favorites is “Winter: Icy Wind” (now sold).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It came from nature (a winter sunrise), nature again (the colors of ice), and music depicting nature (a fragment from Vivaldi’s “Winter.”) It was Vivaldi who figured out how to make music imitate nature (the icy wind). I tried a whole series of fragments from his phrasing to find one which would look good visually. Then lots and lots of analysis to see why I liked the result so well, so that I could take the concepts and apply them to something else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That scarf took months to design.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZb2ZF-PVhnBjqozupXRHzncgw4rZQn2_kpi6yOYdreVZNBcxBXYRp7_OmXW_L5lvnXw8IU78emtOVoq4pDEQrd0kbfoWU3iOileUwM0_QyahWDIbrJE87ZIqisYEK0h2RDsvzfrlzfHI/s1600/110307+ice+view.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="277" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZb2ZF-PVhnBjqozupXRHzncgw4rZQn2_kpi6yOYdreVZNBcxBXYRp7_OmXW_L5lvnXw8IU78emtOVoq4pDEQrd0kbfoWU3iOileUwM0_QyahWDIbrJE87ZIqisYEK0h2RDsvzfrlzfHI/s320/110307+ice+view.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What first made you want to become an artist?</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The world is calling me an artist, so I am playing along with it and calling myself one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Personally, I don’t see any difference between being highly creative in a scientific world and being creative in an artistic one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t understand why people build a wall between art and science.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To me, there is no boundary, and there is beauty in both.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Please describe your creative process: how, when, materials, etc.</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am driven by curiosity and, above all, by the need for intellectual stimulation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Some designs take me months to create, especially when I am figuring out to use music in them.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’m playing some Bach now. His music has a lot of structure to it and sounds wonderful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Taking elements from the music and weaving a scarf as beautiful as the music sounds is an interesting challenge to me.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Once I have an idea, the selection of colors usually comes easily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So much comes from nature, and I only have to look around me and then choose the colors.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What advice would you give to artists who are new to Etsy?</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I have only been selling on Etsy since last September, so I need advice myself!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I can say for sure is that good photography is very important.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I figure that I only have about five seconds in which to make a sale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s how long a potential customer is likely to look at a photo of one of my scarves before moving on to some other photo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So if I haven’t attracted the customer’s attention by then, I’ve lost the sale. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Instead of giving advice, let me frame this as a question, because I think it’s relevant for many of us weavers in one way or another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My scarves tend to be very intricate, with complex designs and subtle changes of color.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How do you present that, give a feeling for how a scarf drapes, and also convey a sense of high quality to a customer in five seconds?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may choose different characteristics to define your weaving, but you still have to present them to the customer very quickly.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What weaving activities or guilds to you participate in?</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am a member of a very active weaving Guild.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We learn from each other, inspire and challenge each other, and admire each others’ talents and weaving ability.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Thank you, Lynn, for this interview! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I can certainly hear the music and see so much more in those scarfs after getting to know you!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Alvant</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Captain of Etsy Weavers team.</span>Etsy Weavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15470888493665773034noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347659091640102175.post-9796717952786901582011-03-04T05:30:00.000-08:002011-03-04T05:30:04.722-08:00Meet our Team - Interview with Jeanette Newton<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Good Friday everyone! This week we have another weaver from Canada. We are proud to introduce to you<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Jeanette Newton</span></b>, from Vancouver, BC.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Please check out her Etsy store: </span><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/RaincoastHandwovens"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Raincoast Handwovens</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx6BbHfH-skY8FR246nKjmQw9g9o-hx0AwsyOzyv2rJi9Yhbu6GLvt12owYNHaclLRrwZdZgRLe5JgIt6a9vnfvueiSiyNHyUz5T1PfHLMOhoksJ9NgIr-zhQD-w5Hqxmc_fpowbbcIz0/s1600/DSC_0007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx6BbHfH-skY8FR246nKjmQw9g9o-hx0AwsyOzyv2rJi9Yhbu6GLvt12owYNHaclLRrwZdZgRLe5JgIt6a9vnfvueiSiyNHyUz5T1PfHLMOhoksJ9NgIr-zhQD-w5Hqxmc_fpowbbcIz0/s320/DSC_0007.jpg" width="290" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Random Facts about You?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am married with 2 children (adults actually), ages 25 & 27.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After my son and daughter moved out I decided to take over their bedrooms for myself. One room is my weaving studio and the other is my sewing room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I spend most of my spare time in these two rooms lost in the creative process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I never thought being an empty nester could be this fun!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What got you started weaving?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">About 2 years ago I started developing arthritis in my hands and was having a hard time knitting (my favorite pass-time at that point in my life).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew I would be lost without some sort of creative hobby but wasn't sure what it could be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That autumn my husband and I were at a local arts event called the Eastside Culture Crawl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There I came across a woman selling her woven blankets and scarves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had her loom set up with many beautiful yarns scattered about the room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was instantly intrigued and decided that perhaps this could be something for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wasted no time in finding someone to take lessons from and by January I had bought my own loom and was completely hooked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since that time I have continued to learn on my own, teaching myself different techniques from the many books that I have purchased.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Any particular technique(s) that you enjoy the most?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I don't really have one favorite technique.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love experimenting with colour, often with disastrous results, but the more I weave the more successes I have.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I find it fascinating the way different colours interact with each other, often with very surprising results.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am quite passionate about being as kind to this earth as possible and try to incorporate that into my weaving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I realize I have a way to go yet with this but I nearly always use some eco-friendly fibers in my weaving, such as Bamboo and Tencel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also love unusual fibers and am always on the lookout for something different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I recently found some Possum yarn!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My goal is to start dying my own yarns soon with natural dyes only.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwC8DEjTWP8IwB4ILTOfaVRjxl-4AYUN2le-gEsQo7tEBotYsrPcsWvizIgqvPCDWnDnCbc_JQst5UvKWVn8AXoczLUpeG1N6Bf9i1b42iytSA8cd9v7kMLc0UlgZGf_kgg5WqAU2-8i0/s1600/DSC_0443.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwC8DEjTWP8IwB4ILTOfaVRjxl-4AYUN2le-gEsQo7tEBotYsrPcsWvizIgqvPCDWnDnCbc_JQst5UvKWVn8AXoczLUpeG1N6Bf9i1b42iytSA8cd9v7kMLc0UlgZGf_kgg5WqAU2-8i0/s320/DSC_0443.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What part the process makes you the most passionate? </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I sometimes feel like the planning process is in some way the best part.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I am weaving a project on my loom I often find myself daydreaming about the next project and what yarns and colours I will use.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I very often lay awake at night thinking of patterns and colours instead of falling asleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is impossible for me to walk past a yarn store and not pop in for a quick look, just in case I find something wonderful that I just have to have.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s pretty rare for me to walk out empty handed!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having said all that, just the process of handling the yarn, or weaving those first couple of inches and seeing the whole thing come to life is also wonderful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What is your source of inspiration?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I find living on the west coast so inspiring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have lived here all my life and am still in awe at the beauty of my surroundings - the ocean, the gulf islands, the mountains, and the forests.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am also very humbled and at the same time inspired every time I go to one of the many arts events here, or visit the many artisans living on the gulf islands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are so many talented people out there and they are a real source of motivation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Where do you sell?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I have sold some of my scarves at a local Christmas craft fair and recently have set up a shop on Etsy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Apart from creating things, what do you do?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I work part-time at our family business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My husband is a Tool & Die Maker/Machinist and has had his own business for 25 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About 5 years ago I decided to make a change and join him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do the bookkeeping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aside from that, I love gardening and have starting growing my own vegetables, which has been very rewarding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since our children now have lives of their own, my husband and I have also started to do some travelling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We love cycling and have taken our bikes on three trips now to England, France and Scotland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a real adventure and such a fantastic way to travel.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What first made you want to become an artist?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Although, until recently, I have never thought of myself as an artist, I think I have always been one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There has never been a time in my life when I haven't been creating something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have tried just about everything now - soap-making, candle-making, knitting, cross-stitch, needlepoint, sewing, watercolour painting, mosaics, pottery, basket weaving, card making, dried and fresh flower arranging, etc........</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Please describe your creative process</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Colour is usually the first thought I have.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I mentioned earlier, I usually begin the planning process long before I have finished my current creation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once I get an idea in my head I can't stop thinking about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It almost becomes an obsession until I can actually begin creating it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love looking through all my yarns (I have quite a collection now) and placing different ones together to see what might work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The actual pattern is very often the last thing I decide upon, although I also love the idea of creating works that are more textural than colorful. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What handmade possession do you most cherish?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I have a beautiful crocheted tablecloth that my Grandmother made.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember her making it when I was a little girl and how much she loved the pattern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a round tablecloth with daffodils all around the edge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think I probably get my creative side from her.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What advice would you give to artists who are new to Etsy?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As I am pretty new to Etsy myself it is hard to give advice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have noticed that renewing items on a regular basis is very helpful as it means that your item will show up in the first few pages of a search giving you more exposure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Good photos are also extremely important and of course excellent customer service goes without saying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I always wrap my scarves nicely and include a hand written note.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What do you like about Etsy?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I love the connection it gives me with other like-minded people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it is such an amazing opportunity to sell handmade items that at one time would have been impossible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through Etsy you can sell your handmade creations worldwide and without the huge commissions that shop-owners charge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used to sell my mosaics through a shop and they took 40%!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also love looking at all the beautiful things that other people are making.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">How do you promote your work?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I haven't really done much to promote my work I'm afraid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'll have to work on that. I spend very little time on the computer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As it is, there never seems to be enough time in the day to do all that I would like to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don't tweet or blog and, to be honest, have no idea how to.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY5nkj-Ese_JYv5VhFCysGClFiVmasSTyWVwo3mSn_CcYpFwaDcf0ueOFAj_qFV1QiD8GikIUAjk6kOPe8iNvcUYFnXDwhMkN1UxrVIQFEvQM18uEpXDc1gNKn46QOGj_aCK9PSU-6vOc/s1600/uk2006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY5nkj-Ese_JYv5VhFCysGClFiVmasSTyWVwo3mSn_CcYpFwaDcf0ueOFAj_qFV1QiD8GikIUAjk6kOPe8iNvcUYFnXDwhMkN1UxrVIQFEvQM18uEpXDc1gNKn46QOGj_aCK9PSU-6vOc/s320/uk2006.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(on a bicycle trip in UK)</span></div>Etsy Weavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15470888493665773034noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347659091640102175.post-54136756474427889532011-02-25T08:33:00.000-08:002011-02-25T08:33:52.239-08:00Meet our Team - Interview with Siana Kelly<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This week we meet <strong><span style="font-size: large;">Siana Kelly</span></strong> from beautiful British Columbia, Canada.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5DJk_Qqt5xgehn5EpyMKmNvNGPCff-gRM66o-4SDCNu73ewhWkYnTiE61FR-EUIyL9d4foMUlbDCMywI7XPA9oAj47JQx_74pC497yz34AKPjvqgJTZT6adDNYDc0SDHh_X-GXItjFAg/s1600/Siana+%2526+Bryan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="236" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5DJk_Qqt5xgehn5EpyMKmNvNGPCff-gRM66o-4SDCNu73ewhWkYnTiE61FR-EUIyL9d4foMUlbDCMywI7XPA9oAj47JQx_74pC497yz34AKPjvqgJTZT6adDNYDc0SDHh_X-GXItjFAg/s320/Siana+%2526+Bryan.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;">(My husband Bryan and I on our honeymoon in Paris 2008)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">---------------------------</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I live on Sulphurous Lake in a mountainous region called the Cariboo, in a log home on 4 acres.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiob7Sa9w5xmKC6D4UydQn2IhEMwPgwOxJvjaD-mc7w38dFKUT9PcQrj1M4IxD9XBzL9xAYHV-Yq585eBQVUij-FgLycP_dDA-tFA_7AEbXgCrAyo0WU-32wvhmo9VuFdL4jCkLiUdib2I/s1600/Lake+during+ceremony+66.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiob7Sa9w5xmKC6D4UydQn2IhEMwPgwOxJvjaD-mc7w38dFKUT9PcQrj1M4IxD9XBzL9xAYHV-Yq585eBQVUij-FgLycP_dDA-tFA_7AEbXgCrAyo0WU-32wvhmo9VuFdL4jCkLiUdib2I/s320/Lake+during+ceremony+66.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The name of your store<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/SinderbluStudio"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">SinderbluStudio</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Random Facts about You?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Besides weaving I also enjoy making Hand Embroidered cards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I am short and loved...giggles)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFOZV1__J6xrGVguCGC6j42qc0VSYcShhpAtiwZB2wj6DDgpS2-Wnf8CE9tp7P6JpHu3lVzytWaZyo7sCkoOgIeJpXo993bn_hFQhAlq6DXg6V8x1cbwPR8WDHTS0s9C-6vHcSGAumDTQ/s1600/Craft+Booth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFOZV1__J6xrGVguCGC6j42qc0VSYcShhpAtiwZB2wj6DDgpS2-Wnf8CE9tp7P6JpHu3lVzytWaZyo7sCkoOgIeJpXo993bn_hFQhAlq6DXg6V8x1cbwPR8WDHTS0s9C-6vHcSGAumDTQ/s320/Craft+Booth.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">How long ago have you started weaving?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I began weaving 10 years ago</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What got you started weaving?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Actually, it was by accident.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'd just moved into a new house on Vancouver Island and was shopping for place mats, couldn't find what I wanted, came home and began talking to my neighbor about it over the fence in the back yard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Turned out she had a fiber studio and taught Saori Weaving and suggested why not weave my own place mats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was hooked!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ2rPdBxxZZ7Ta4DdnFbCVQg61SPhoUy1Te6Ov1ToqDOljJRbRXwahaNDqXXY614miaCQachJupGYG-1sqpsTXxGmDZKwyTZPZfcPScNIrAfIiBWEK8Apl5XBJLoMatbrGS7rcpI2CBsU/s1600/threading+my+loom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ2rPdBxxZZ7Ta4DdnFbCVQg61SPhoUy1Te6Ov1ToqDOljJRbRXwahaNDqXXY614miaCQachJupGYG-1sqpsTXxGmDZKwyTZPZfcPScNIrAfIiBWEK8Apl5XBJLoMatbrGS7rcpI2CBsU/s1600/threading+my+loom.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;">(threading my loom)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Any particular technique(s) that you enjoy the most?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I enjoy the Saori way of weaving as there are no boundaries/rules and it gives freedom to be as creative as I want.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What part the process makes you the most passionate? </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Being able to combine any materials and play with them on the loom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What is your source of inspiration?</i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Life and my surroundings here in the wilderness overlooking the lake inspires me, and of course my husband who is also an artist with his own Etsy shop.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK7H40seGtQnQVS5IzFORXtE_p79OTyPIzwwirhVZYwC-zZABylhI6bnewH3bEl5YEMSLBCj8ZfIODiAvV5QExPVJ-9-WaQKWVIyqBIZvxSxHYo1H2BBTg2NyLxWet9Y95LGUXN8xv4dM/s1600/fox+laying+on+deck.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="177" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK7H40seGtQnQVS5IzFORXtE_p79OTyPIzwwirhVZYwC-zZABylhI6bnewH3bEl5YEMSLBCj8ZfIODiAvV5QExPVJ-9-WaQKWVIyqBIZvxSxHYo1H2BBTg2NyLxWet9Y95LGUXN8xv4dM/s320/fox+laying+on+deck.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;">(our friend fox waiting for dinner) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDua9uHc5B4p6YPlmO51YeGbkN-WOMiY8CwIguoYGRcWy3Z3Gozg2yS3yGNHvnIXhjOiXQYmYhkzWTtvX1gm-BsuF9HKVbJ3OMNgIqvye9n4fP4CvX3r7zFwFaFEAPyLWFonYZKiby2vQ/s1600/inspiration.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDua9uHc5B4p6YPlmO51YeGbkN-WOMiY8CwIguoYGRcWy3Z3Gozg2yS3yGNHvnIXhjOiXQYmYhkzWTtvX1gm-BsuF9HKVbJ3OMNgIqvye9n4fP4CvX3r7zFwFaFEAPyLWFonYZKiby2vQ/s1600/inspiration.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;">(my inspiration)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Where do you sell?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">My Etsy Shop, craft fairs, trade shows, local shops and from home.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Apart from creating things, what do you do?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am the secretary for our local Volunteer Firefighters Association, doing their yearly newsletter and maintaining a blog for them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am also part of their Quilting Group, getting together once a week hand stitching a quilt to raffle off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have been working on this for 3 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also take part in a local summer Craft Fair once a year, taking my loom to demonstrate Saori Weaving and encouraging the public to try weaving, it's very popular.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What first made you want to become an artist?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I guess I have always been naturally artistic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My dad was an artist, drawing in ink, but he would never sell his work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did draw when I was younger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mother taught me to knit when I was 10 , making socks on 4 needles. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Please describe your creative process: how, when, materials, etc....</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I don't think I have an actual *process*...it's more like a *need* to create something different and unusual that usually strikes me when I am out walking in the forest, daydreaming while looking at the lake , working in the garden or watching my husband draw.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like using soft natural fine materials like bamboo, silk, cotton, wool, they have a soft natural flow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I live in a log home and my loom is set up in the loft where I can weave and look out over the lake and mountains.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRzU-svdh7ehC6avIFAcsq4ENHoTLRp-fzb8x_bXZh4a2Hka9i6nU7uB2nszbXWQ479p7VlitmW65VYZXANf5fh5xGLUb-tTGoejB3aTXwfV701wxSmyqTtUijBilN6Tb4PHUwQ6RuHd8/s1600/today+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="311" l6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRzU-svdh7ehC6avIFAcsq4ENHoTLRp-fzb8x_bXZh4a2Hka9i6nU7uB2nszbXWQ479p7VlitmW65VYZXANf5fh5xGLUb-tTGoejB3aTXwfV701wxSmyqTtUijBilN6Tb4PHUwQ6RuHd8/s320/today+002.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What handmade possession do you most cherish?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">My most cherished creation is my first Saori Hand Woven wall hanging in black and white.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What advice would you give to artists who are new to Etsy?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Be patient!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Selling doesn't happen overnight but enjoy what you create and be proud to have the opportunity to share it with the world, you will meet many great artists in the supportive Etsy Community.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What do you like about Etsy?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The community and interaction with so many diverse talented artists and the ability to showcase your work to the world.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What weaving activities or guilds to you participate in?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Living in a remote area I don't belong to any weaving guilds, I am so alone here and love it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Do you have a website, blog, Facebook page, or other online endeavors?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yes I have a blog, Facebook, twitter, flickr etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">my blog:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://sinderblustudios.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">http://sinderblustudios.blogspot.com</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">twitter:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://twitter.com/%20SinderbluStudio"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">http://twitter.com/ SinderbluStudio</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Plurk:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.plurk.com/sinderblu%23"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">http://www.plurk.com/sinderblu#</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tumblr:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://sinderblustudio.tumblr.com/"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">http://sinderblustudio.tumblr.com/</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Facebook<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/siana.Kelly#!/siana.Kelly"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">http://www.Facebook.com/siana.Kelly#!/siana.Kelly</span></a></div>-----------------------------Etsy Weavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15470888493665773034noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347659091640102175.post-71742235464351740962011-02-23T10:07:00.000-08:002011-02-23T10:07:18.291-08:00Wednesday Themed Treasury - "I hear the birds sing..."Hello all,<br />
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We are happy to share our first themed Treasury for your review. <br />
The name of the Treasury was "I hear the birds sing, so sping must be coming..."<br />
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<a href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d6455e038836d913156b9c4/i-hear-the-birds-sing-spring-must-me" target="_blank">http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d6455e038836d913156b9c4/i-hear-the-birds-sing-spring-must-me</a><br />
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The goal was to feature up to 8 Etsy Weavers in this treasury, combined with other theme related listings.<br />
It is up to you to say if the project is to stay and grow...<br />
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Please check this treasury out! I hope we get to promote our members in the number of interesting treasuries!<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d6455e038836d913156b9c4/i-hear-the-birds-sing-spring-m..."><img border="0" height="244" j6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOlJaxUREm6Nxb4aVMjWhCxHRPph8JQ8GtgjOQiYC6WL18uz6c4om0d_zZy3UG1l1qfEkYxp5fmUmk28KsLNfieVqfRp0ZycEwl8GvzYMY9394KmSbvV3emHLyqRrea-vvIkx3WtDf2Ec/s320/Feb23_11.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Etsy Weavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15470888493665773034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347659091640102175.post-33957970660882794372011-02-17T20:58:00.000-08:002011-02-18T07:46:37.363-08:00Interview with Sandra Tyler<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sandra is from Long Island, NY</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The name of her store:</span></i></b> </span><a href="http://sandrasfiberworks.etsy.com/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sandra’s Fiberworks</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">----------------------</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Random Facts about You?</span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Published author of two novels; former professor of writing; worked in graphics for years to support my writing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I have two young boys, 5 and 7, who have transformed me creatively, as now I am a weaver!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I'm the author of two novels, “Blue Glass” (A New York Times Notable Book of the Year) and “After Lydia”, both published by Harcourt Brace. You can find them on Amazon. They're literary novels, about mothers and daughters and sisters.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">How long ago have you started weaving? </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">About 5 years ago</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">What got you started weaving?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I missed having the project of writing a novel; rather, I missed having that sustained creative outlet, something I could return to daily. With two toddlers, only 17 months apart, it was the first time in my entire life that I did not have the time, focus or energy for anything creative. That void made me anxious and unsettled. I thought about knitting, but knew I would get in knots and wind up abandoning the project – weaving appealed to me, as you can rarely get in knots. You may have to rip something out, but I’ve never abandoned a weaving project, unless I just didn’t like it!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So I ordered a child’s peg tapestry loom. From there, I bought books on tapestry weaving, and began making my own looms, first the standard frame wood loom with nails, and then the Archie Brennan pipe looms – I loved those. Worked on them until I realized I was serious about this, and invested in my beloved Mirrix loom.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Any particular technique(s) that you enjoy the most? </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Tapestry weaving is my favorite, as tapestry is closest to painting; alongside the writing, I have always been drawing or painting, and just before I discovered tapestry weaving, I was working in collage (boys’ naptime, I’d retreat to the basement).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not only do I feel I am painting with yarn, but as well, incorporating collage techniques of combining different textures of yarn or even raw fiber, as well as entirely different mediums – ribbon, string, even torn fabrics, anything that can be woven.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVaFr5tfek6psgCw2MaZ76AIjQvQnS_DIj1tYCBmMH_OFHxaPmVttcheDjrxJ-Qnju7lWUweieyEwjLfs0zD6tu2r7Cg7PoQuEIBewdgkZLNpcKjDxaWV6YAV3JREJ5_UX_VsDF4bR_OM/s1600/meweaving.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="240" j6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVaFr5tfek6psgCw2MaZ76AIjQvQnS_DIj1tYCBmMH_OFHxaPmVttcheDjrxJ-Qnju7lWUweieyEwjLfs0zD6tu2r7Cg7PoQuEIBewdgkZLNpcKjDxaWV6YAV3JREJ5_UX_VsDF4bR_OM/s320/meweaving.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">What part the process makes you the most passionate? </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Hard question. I love the rhythmic process of weaving. I can’t do it for hours on end, and that’s why I think I moved on to the rigid heddle, for variety. I didn’t think it would interest me as much as the tapestry, but since I started making handbags and scarves, I haven’t touched my Mirrix loom in over six months!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I also love experimenting with different textured and weighted yarns. That’s where I’m really in touch with the side of me that loves drawing, painting and collage: seeing how one color and texture works up against another. As warp meets weft, those color and texture combinations can surprise and excite in the most unexpected ways.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">What is your source of inspiration? </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I love looking at other fiber artists, but truthfully, as to tapestry anyway, my mother’s paintings inspire me most. She is an abstract expressionist, and has been painting large abstract landscapes her whole life. Subconsciously, my tapestries always wind up as landscapes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, as is true to my mother’s painting, my expression is intuitive, never planned. She never has painted from photographs; I never use cartoons behind my tapestries. As to rigid heddle weaving, I still feel in touch with the collage aspect, as I’m less interested in producing something pretty, than interesting and surprising, with nubby highly textures yarns.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Where do you sell? </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mostly at local craft shows. I’ve been on Etsy for some time, but my New Year’s resolution was to try and really push the online selling – not easy!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Apart from creating things, what do you do? </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I’m a full-time mother of our two boys, ages 5 and 7. I’m a 40-something mom, with a whole professional writing career behind me; I’ve met my goals, in that sense. But having children has transformed me creatively – the cerebral of writing appeals less than the tactile. Rather, the tactile has become more accessible. This transformation, is all the subject of my blog, <a href="http://sandrasfiberworks.blogspot.com/">http://sandrasfiberworks.blogspot.com/</a> and what has actually gotten me back to writing as well as weaving!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhewJLTUe5lMA3z9MuXcw8gODWjHa4DRWU7qysmHv9Kg1CNop6G_Tof7AA8981peVrA2vCct0WT2L_tzHUuM53yBylqrTOD-7jQrrYlrxcS8qndqOL4n8WT2PvpO2wOmf8HZouLBPTUO_4/s1600/meboys2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="240" j6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhewJLTUe5lMA3z9MuXcw8gODWjHa4DRWU7qysmHv9Kg1CNop6G_Tof7AA8981peVrA2vCct0WT2L_tzHUuM53yBylqrTOD-7jQrrYlrxcS8qndqOL4n8WT2PvpO2wOmf8HZouLBPTUO_4/s320/meboys2.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">What first made you want to become an artist?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">No real decision here. I was always exploring a creative outlet. For some reason it was the writing I pursued, earning my MFA in writing; writing two novels; teaching creative writing on the undergraduate and graduate level for years. Then my life changed when I had children, and so did my priorities.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Please describe your creative process: how, when, materials, etc.:</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Well, overhead is pretty cheap, as I look for yarn sales, and beyond that, it’s about weft and warp, ribbon, and sometimes beads. I usually pick the colors I want to experiment with, and then see where it goes. It’s all intuitive, and that’s what finally keeps me moving from one project to the next.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">What handmade possession do you most cherish? </span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My mother’s paintings that she has given me.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Can you tell us more about those paintings?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I'm not sure how else to elaborate on my mother's painting, except that she paints intuitively, the same way I approach y tapestry; never from photographs. Her paintings are an emotional response to landscape rather than a literal one. You can see her work at:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.elizabethsloantyler.com/elizabethsloantyler.com/Home.html"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">http://www.elizabethsloantyler.com/elizabethsloantyler.com/Home.html</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">What advice would you give to artists who are new to Etsy? </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">That’s a hard one, as I’ve been on Etsy for a couple of years, but feel brand new, as I’m only now really paying attention to my shop (now that both my boys are finally in school!). I would say be sure you have your own <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">website</b> up and running, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">blog</b>, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tweet Tweet Tweet</b>. Exhausting, and I can’t swear by any of this advice as I have yet to see an end result, but other than that, it’s depending on craft shows that are also hit or miss. All in all, to pursue the online avenue, on some level you have to enjoy it and think of it as a social as well as creative outlet. To keep yourself coming back again and again!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 12pt 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What weaving activities or guilds to you participate in?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 12pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I belong to the </span><a href="http://www.americantapestryalliance.org/AboutATA/FAQ.html"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">American Tapestry Alliance</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 12pt 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do you have a website, blog, Facebook page, or other online endeavors?</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 12pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.sandrasfiberworks.com/SandrasFiberworks/home.html"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">http://www.sandrasfiberworks.com/SandrasFiberworks/home.html</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://sandrasfiberworks.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">http://sandrasfiberworks.blogspot.com/</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.squidoo.com/fave-fiber-artists"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">http://www.squidoo.com/fave-fiber-artists</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.squidoo.com/sandras-fiberworks-fiber-hub"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">http://www.squidoo.com/sandras-fiberworks-fiber-hub</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.squidoo.com/sandras-fiberworks"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">http://www.squidoo.com/sandras-fiberworks</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">---------------------</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">That was our interview with Sandra. We've learned a lot, but one of the most important things - when we feel love and passion, we are able to go fearlessly through the new experiences, caring gracefully the power of ACHIEVEMENTS! Doesn't matter how they are being measured...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Great job, Sandra!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOJXXGe9co-58u_yQ5R9atR8VOQwhj7Y4O2FWa8kFPk1Qle5BlKCGabLrQwX8JDaqsF3lw2__f-cnt9bUrg9zWlWdwBjJEGzScZp1BOhTBO-W7MXxv4SRqs5K1t1slIudu9A_e1VnyzfI/s1600/mewalking2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" j6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOJXXGe9co-58u_yQ5R9atR8VOQwhj7Y4O2FWa8kFPk1Qle5BlKCGabLrQwX8JDaqsF3lw2__f-cnt9bUrg9zWlWdwBjJEGzScZp1BOhTBO-W7MXxv4SRqs5K1t1slIudu9A_e1VnyzfI/s320/mewalking2.jpg" width="243" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"></div>Etsy Weavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15470888493665773034noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347659091640102175.post-2429361102126673372011-02-15T11:06:00.000-08:002011-02-15T11:06:03.304-08:00Wednesday Treasuries - Theme based contest!Dear Team members!<br />
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How about creating Theme-based contests? We can run them every Wednesday!!!!<br />
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I would want you to provide 1) suggestions for the Theme, 2) submit your listing (one per person) for this theme. <br />
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If you have a listing that fits the Theme - submit it on our Etsy Weavers discussion board!<br />
If you would want to make your item specifically for the Theme - please let the Curator know what you're creating.<br />
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Here is an example of such a Theme-Treasury:<br />
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Curator: <strong>Alvant</strong><br />
Theme: <strong><span style="color: #b45f06;">"I hear the birds sing - spring must me coming..."</span></strong> <br />
Colors: <strong>earthy colors</strong>, <strong><span style="color: black;">blue, green, yellow, sandy</span></strong>... <br />
Elements: <strong>birds, music, flowers, nature, awakening...</strong><br />
Limitations: I would want to include up to <strong>8 items</strong> of our Etsy Weavers team in this Treasury.<br />
Due date for submiting your listings: <strong>February 22</strong>.<br />
Due date to claim your participation in this treasury: <strong>February 20</strong>.<br />
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I see this as additional way to Promote our team members!<br />
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What do you think?<br />
AlvantEtsy Weavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15470888493665773034noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347659091640102175.post-163243380514002982011-02-11T22:12:00.000-08:002011-02-13T21:01:11.161-08:00Meet our Team - Annie MacHale<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white;">We are starting our Introduction Series of our team members!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Today it is </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Annie MacHale</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMYtxvEvw3wbAaCpWqETx1eVhUoK-wH2xr6NHmE1M6394lv-V1ia8hkhJmeZTQmx20JBF5YfbgYcLAYJKxijI80Ps9IkoJyWK5wmUX-TXGurG7vXrrXSUBdwidXFYbelIOCQbuRVek3t0/s1600/CNCH+2010+029.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMYtxvEvw3wbAaCpWqETx1eVhUoK-wH2xr6NHmE1M6394lv-V1ia8hkhJmeZTQmx20JBF5YfbgYcLAYJKxijI80Ps9IkoJyWK5wmUX-TXGurG7vXrrXSUBdwidXFYbelIOCQbuRVek3t0/s320/CNCH+2010+029.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white;">She is located on the central coast of California, (near Santa Cruz).</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background: #40ffff; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white;">The name of your store:</span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have two Etsy shops, </span><span style="background: #40ffff; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ASpinnerWeaver"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">ASpinnerWeaver</span></span></a></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> and </span><span style="background: #40ffff; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/iWeave%20Sashes"><span style="background-color: white;">iWeaveShashes</span></a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How long ago have you started weaving?</i></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white;">I started weaving in 1976, at the age of 17</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What got you started weaving? </i></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white;">I saw someone weaving on an inkle loom at a craft fair and became entranced with the little portable loom and the very practical items it was able to produce. I then went to the library and got a book, which had a plan for building a loom… </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background: #40ffff; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white;">Any particular technique(s) that you enjoy the most?</span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white;">Although I have tried my hand at tapestry and own a rigid heddle loom, it is inkle weaving that has my heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white;">What part the process makes you the most passionate? </span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white;">I love playing with color and pattern! Sometimes the color arrangement surprises me once I get weaving; it may not be what I expected. I enjoy seeing pickup patterns form at my fingertips. With inkle weaving, I can finish a project in a day and be on to the next experiment.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white;">What is your source of inspiration?</span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white;">Everything! Other textiles, tree bark, butterflies, lots of natural things suggest color combinations and patterns to me. And sometimes, especially in my scarves, I’m just playing with combining the yarns I have on hand and consider them a sort of yarn collage. In them, I often mix yarns randomly, creating pebbly patterns. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white;"> Where do you sell?</span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white;">I really enjoy selling online through my Etsy shops. Many of my customers find me through Google or other search engines, not only from browsing Etsy. I also do a handful of shows a year. Some of the events I sell at are historic re-enactments of the Fur Trade Era. For these I have to dress in period costume and set up shop in a canvas tent. This has been a good niche market for me. (And that’s how I met my husband)</span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhysKDdhl3a4Qsnlc_k5ePrkyuN7dUaCNesNQk6qEovkxs_ejYEXXNwX2PXjWxYDRJU0Mlem9W5-Jlp60HbrnyUT1RYTkFa1xVPoRc0vtSc3wo8uTQctwzck4eaLlo42rv-j_gVSamAPQI/s1600/Rick+Modeling.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhysKDdhl3a4Qsnlc_k5ePrkyuN7dUaCNesNQk6qEovkxs_ejYEXXNwX2PXjWxYDRJU0Mlem9W5-Jlp60HbrnyUT1RYTkFa1xVPoRc0vtSc3wo8uTQctwzck4eaLlo42rv-j_gVSamAPQI/s320/Rick+Modeling.jpg" width="216" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white;">(that is my husband in period costume) </span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white;">In the light of upcoming Valentine day, what’s your idea of “romantic”?</span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anytime I get time alone with my husband to spend it at our leisure - that is romantic. Going for a walk, watching a movie,</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">holding hands, having tea, reading to each other.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white;">Outside of your weaving business, do you work (or attend school)?</span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white;">I am employed full time as a retail buyer and manager for 5 small shops in state parks across<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Santa Cruz county. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white;">What weaving activities or guilds to you participate in?</span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white;">I'm a member of the </span><a href="http://www.santacruzhandweavers.org/"><span style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Santa Cruz Handweavers Guild</span></a><span style="background-color: white;"> and am active on </span><a href="http://www.weavolution.com/"><span style="background-color: white;">Weavolution</span></a><span style="background-color: white;">. I regularly attend the </span><a href="http://www.cnch.org/"><span style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Conference of Northern California Handweavers</span></a><span style="background-color: white;"> and last year attended Convergence for the first time. I have taught classes both locally, and in New Mexico.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white;">Do you have a website, blog, Facebook page, or other online endeavors?</span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white;">I write a weaving blog at </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.ASpinnerWeaver.com"><span style="background-color: white;">www.ASpinnerWeaver.com</span></a><span style="background-color: white;">, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white;">my photo album is at: </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/aspinnerweaver"><span style="background-color: white; color: purple;">http://www.flickr.com/photos/aspinnerweaver</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: white;">and I am on Facebook at </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/ASpinnerWeaver"><span style="background-color: white;">http://www.facebook.com/ASpinnerWeaver</span></a></span><br />
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Thank you, Annie!<br />
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For those interested to learn more about our members, check us on<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"></div>Etsy Weavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15470888493665773034noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347659091640102175.post-76739266946594769862011-02-06T12:01:00.000-08:002011-02-06T12:01:38.639-08:00February 1-6th Treasury Contest!This is our first week of running Treasury Contest by Etsy Weavers. Seems to be a small step, but here is what it does:<br />
1) helps promoting the Treasury Curators. A good treasury creates exposure, and exposure means - more views and clicks and responses not only to the items you choose, but also to the Curator of a successful treasury. Not to mention the fact that you could be getting closer to being featured on the first page of Treasuries! And that is HUGE! Not necessarily "set for life" type of HUGE, but certainly "made my month" kind of huge ;-)<br />
2) creating a treasury and especially collecting the responses indicates your progress in making VISUAL impression on the audience. It also helps in finding the best possible shots for your collection as well. Photography is the key in internet sales. So, creating and choosing the most desirable shots will guarantee you a long term success online.<br />
3) As we're getting "savvier" with promotions - we are being able to immediately spread the word on the best treasuries across multiple communities like Facebook, Tweeter, Blogger. This can't hurt, right?<br />
4) More importantly, we as a team learn about each other. Mutual recognition creates a collective thought. And for us this thought is - GROWTH and SUCCESS! <br />
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So, now to the results - this week's by far the best Treasury was created by <a href="http://www.etsy.com/people/ASpinnerWeaver/treasury">ASpinnerWeaver</a> with over 100 views and 29 clicks so far!!!<br />
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<a href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d498d09ab0a8eefa13e7b60/pretty-as-a-peacock?index=1">This week's Treasury</a><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7Io-ASFbyATGJJiTUacpY3wCB9pjX3QKqQawqrfh-ToG5xnv19ORfkUCT26Hk0IGmhwR4UNavxFEd7RUgt1HOoePtHfto1-wZmgjxwlj2xRjSiEQ5Khz3k2XFOkEGdt_XgkSG7VdHSKg/s1600/Feb1_6_11.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7Io-ASFbyATGJJiTUacpY3wCB9pjX3QKqQawqrfh-ToG5xnv19ORfkUCT26Hk0IGmhwR4UNavxFEd7RUgt1HOoePtHfto1-wZmgjxwlj2xRjSiEQ5Khz3k2XFOkEGdt_XgkSG7VdHSKg/s320/Feb1_6_11.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
Congratulations! We've been blogging about this Treasury all week and still are bragging about it!<br />
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Alvant<br />
Captain of Etsy Weavers<br />
<h2 class="postTitle" style="color: #666666;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"></span></h2>Etsy Weavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15470888493665773034noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347659091640102175.post-40215653507264289542011-02-02T15:30:00.000-08:002011-02-02T15:31:52.310-08:00Etsy Weavers on Facebook!!!!We are now on Facebook and proud of it!<br />
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<a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/profile.php?id=100001934129139">http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/profile.php?id=100001934129139</a><br />
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The best way to self-promote is to grow your exposure and connections. So, the plan for this group is to <br />
1) keep our Team blog going with interesting topics/places to advertise, finds and treasuries that we have created. <br />
2) invite more people to our Team (they have to be weaving), to our Blog (they have to be willing to read and write), to our Facebook (we would want them to follow), to our Team life (we hope that it is buzzing!!)<br />
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We will post articles and interviews with our members, share their success stories, educate ourselves and others on different weaving techniques and events. I am always open to your suggestions on the Topics that you would like to learn about. <br />
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AlvantEtsy Weavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15470888493665773034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347659091640102175.post-11000042811169925242011-02-01T22:26:00.000-08:002011-02-01T22:26:33.697-08:00Take quality pictures!!!We all know that taking quality pictures is the key to being featured on Etsy front page.<br />
Including simple step-by-step instructions on how to take better pictures of your products.<br />
I found this on Etsy Forum today and wanted to share with the group.<br />
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<a href="http://www.handmadeology.com/studio-quality-product-photography-with-a-12-set-up/">http://www.handmadeology.com/studio-quality-product-photography-with-a-12-set-up/</a><br />
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If you happen to have good tips and links, please share!<br />
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Alvant<br />
Captain of Etsy Weavers teamEtsy Weavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15470888493665773034noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347659091640102175.post-16314514719144585582011-02-01T21:47:00.000-08:002011-02-01T21:47:56.118-08:00January Treasuries by Etsy WeaversWe have a talented team of Weavers. And we're also getting our hands "dirty" with setting up beautiful Treasuries of the items that we adore and cherish.<br />
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Here are some of the examples of the Treasuries created by our team in the last week of January:<br />
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<a href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d477575f6038eefdd34c1bc/hooray-for-handwovens-by-the-etsyweavers" target="_blank">http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d477575f6038eefdd34c1bc/hooray-for-handwovens-by-the-etsyweavers</a> <br />
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<div class="from" sizcache="4" sizset="48"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/Mireloom">Mireloom</a> : ok, this is my first T for the team!<br />
<a href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d41d768746a6d91c03625db/we-want-weave" target="_blank">http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d41d768746a6d91c03625db/we-want-weave</a> </div><div class="body" sizcache="4" sizset="49"><br />
</div><div class="from" sizcache="4" sizset="55"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/TheHermitsLoom">TheHermitsLoom</a> : Hi everyone :) Here's mine for the team. Go weavers!!<br />
<a href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d42090e72b18eef26e66f5d/weekend-at-the-lake" target="_blank">http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d42090e72b18eef26e66f5d/weekend-at-the-lake</a> </div><div class="foot last" jquery1296625370062="105" sizcache="4" sizset="57"><br />
</div><div class="from" sizcache="4" sizset="62"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/openyourize">openyourize</a> : <a href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d42561195966d9175ed3b70/these-might-be-from-outer-space" target="_blank">http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d42561195966d9175ed3b70/these-might-be-from-outer-space</a> </div><div class="body" sizcache="4" sizset="63"><br />
</div><div class="from" sizcache="4" sizset="76"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/fiberaddicts">fiberaddicts</a> : <a href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d42aaad91746d9185fa20c1/inspiration" target="_blank">http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d42aaad91746d9185fa20c1/inspiration</a> </div><div class="body" sizcache="4" sizset="77"><br />
</div><div class="body" sizcache="4" sizset="77"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/SinderbluStudio">SinderbluStudio</a> : <a href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d431dfed7906d9194c4b104/soft-lite" target="_blank">http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d431dfed7906d9194c4b104/soft-lite</a> </div><div class="body" sizcache="4" sizset="77"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d435afba1af8eef37b45382/whats-in-your-heart?ref=pr_treasury" target="_blank">http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d435afba1af8eef37b45382/whats-in-your-heart?ref=pr_treasury</a></div><div class="body" sizcache="4" sizset="77"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d44cf4e511a6d91fe18e6cb/pleasures-on-a-frosty-day" target="_blank">http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d44cf4e511a6d91fe18e6cb/pleasures-on-a-frosty-day</a> </div><div class="body" sizcache="4" sizset="77"><br />
</div><div class="from" sizcache="4" sizset="104"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/KristiePeters">KristiePeters</a> - <a href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d44de614f408eef9f719e6b/winter-white-wonders" target="_blank">http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d44de614f408eef9f719e6b/winter-white-wonders</a></div><div class="from" sizcache="4" sizset="104"><br />
</div><div class="from" sizcache="4" sizset="49"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ASpinnerWeaver">ASpinnerWeaver</a> - Thanks for the nudge to create my first treasury. <a href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d463382f4698eef7049d60f/garnet-pewter-bronze" target="_blank">http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d463382f4698eef7049d60f/garnet-pewter-bronze</a><br />
~Annie </div><div class="from" sizcache="4" sizset="49"><br />
</div><div class="from" sizcache="4" sizset="49">Great job, Etsy Weavers!</div>Etsy Weavershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15470888493665773034noreply@blogger.com1