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From Stitches to Stage: The Art of Beatrice Deer

From Stitches to Stage: The Art of Beatrice Deer

“Inuit women sew—my mom, my aunts, my cousins—all the women in my village,” Beatrice Deer says. “I started using a sewing machine at age thirteen and never stopped. I like making outdoor clothing, like parkas and crochet hats. When I became a performer, I began making...

Stories from Our Stashes: Part Two

Stories from Our Stashes: Part Two

When a maker says the word stash, they are probably referring to a collection of the primary materials needed to practice their craft. For knitters, yarn; for spinners, fleece; for quilters, fabric; and so on. Stashes can start out modestly—a single special skein...

Tied Up in Knots: The Tatting Art of Pat Moffatt

Tied Up in Knots: The Tatting Art of Pat Moffatt

I first discovered Pat Moffatt’s work in one of our local art galleries. When I asked the curator who was the maker behind the beautiful earrings in the gift shop, she was kind enough to connect me with Pat, a tatting artist living in Haliburton County, Ontario. I...

Sock Mending: How to Replace a Sock Heel Flap (and Heel Turn)

Sock Mending: How to Replace a Sock Heel Flap (and Heel Turn)

This is Part Two of a two-part series on replacing sock heels. See the first part here, and see also our previous three-part sock mending series covering how to do Swiss darning, stocking darning and Scottish darning.We all wear out socks differently; for me, it’s...

Stories from Our Stashes: Part One

Stories from Our Stashes: Part One

When a maker says the word stash, they are probably referring to a collection of the primary materials needed to practice their craft. For knitters, yarn; for spinners, fleece; for quilters, fabric; and so on. Stashes can start out modestly—a single special skein...

The Manitoba Fibre Festival

The Manitoba Fibre Festival

For eleven years, fibre growers and crafters have come together in Winnipeg for the Manitoba Fibre Festival. The event is a celebration of all things fibre, offering a busy marketplace, a wide range of workshops, and close encounters with fibre-producing animals in...

Hol(e)y Terror: The Five Stages of Moth Grief

Hol(e)y Terror: The Five Stages of Moth Grief

Every change of season brings a change of clothes and, for many of us, a terrible discovery: Moths have found the closet and riddled our natural fibre garments with holes. Whether tiny perforations, or ragged flaps of fabric, the ravages of moths inevitably prompt a...

The M-Word: Protecting Your Stash from Moths

The M-Word: Protecting Your Stash from Moths

Our stash represents a significant investment in terms of money, time, and heart-space, not to mention storage space. How can we best protect that investment from damage? Moths are a major threat to your stash. Some fibre folk have a tradition that it is bad luck to...

Sleeves Part 3: Raglans. (Part One of Two)

Sleeves Part 3: Raglans. (Part One of Two)

In Parts One and Two of this series, we looked at how to modify the fit of the sleeve and armhole of drop shoulder, circular yoke, and set-in sleeve sweaters. Now it’s time to dive into the raglan sleeve.Continuing Kim McBrien Evans's series on garment size and fit,...

Common Threads: Volume 21, October 2023

Common Threads: Volume 21, October 2023

Nine Ten Publications author and our beloved friend Anna Hunter has written her reflections on five years of having a wool mill. Image courtesty Anna Hunter.Textile artist Francine McCabe was a guest on a recent episode of the CBC radio show North by Northwest,...

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