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there and back again
or...beryl sets the tone
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Sarah C Swett
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3099.1 miles later…
We’ve seen mosses in Vermont —bluffs in Nebraska— —and the Platte River at dawn. There have been dry places— —wet places— —and no shortage of wind. Also…
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on the road
For a pair of contented stay-at-homes, it’s rather wild to say this— —but Beryl and I are on our way from Idaho to New Hampshire to help celebrate my…
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scraps
I’m not sure what to call the things in the box I was rummaging through the other day. Experiments? Flirtations? Fragments? Morsels? Dead Ends…
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drunk on nettles 'n milkweed
Such a wild time of year. One minute we're slipping through the dark with glow collars— the next we’re sleeping through Morning Twilight. And the Robins…
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riding the creative tortoise
There is no internet at my house this morning. Happily none of my yarn-centric work relies on a computer, but The Gusset is a creature of bits and bytes…
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Sarah C Swett
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cutting off
It’s decisive, isn’t it? Snip. Snap. And the work is done. At least the taut-warp, grid-centric, over-under, mystery-of-months-ago part is done. The…
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a visit to mend land
When Hercule Poirot commented on how much she seemed to enjoy her life, Mrs. Ariadne Oliver replied, “well you never know what is going to happen!” Such…
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what if it's finished?
Ninety Nine Nouns I mean—this collection of woven words. Except how can it be finished? There are only 94 in the box and one on the loom. That isn’t…
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into the forest of moss
When all is brown and grey and forest green— —and lichens and mosses are the jewels of the woods— —the little girl who once conjured fairy houses with…
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mend is a place
Hunched over a loom building words a letter at a time— —is a pretty funny way to write. In some respects, it is crazy slow. In others — well a single…
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minx moon
minx (n.) 1540s, mynx "pet dog" minx: a delightful word in which every letter begins on a flat fell with a serif— — at least when weaving from bottom to…
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it felt like a vest
So what could I do but felt one? It needed a pile of carded wool— —a million ideas— —and some water. Also time. And a bit of gumption I found somewhere…
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blue and white
and grey and brown and green
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The Gusset
The Gusset
Field research in the expanse between the tactile and the intangible; noticing yarn, light, line, things that want to be made, and the luminous joy of working with the materials at hand.
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