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		<title>scarves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These are all woven with my handspun on a 12 inch Ashford Knitter&#8217;s rigid heddle loom. I made them at the end of 2010. It&#8217;s high time to warp the loom again, since the New Year it&#8217;s been all spinning and no weaving. Work is frenetic at the moment but I am making time to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lovefibre.com/2011/03/06/scarves/</link>
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		<title>Sketchbook Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finished my sketchbook for the Sketchbook Project and posted it on Wednesday. I didn&#8217;t get started till the Christmas Holidays so it&#8217;s a bit slapdash, but on the other hand that stopped me from being too precious about it, and it&#8217;s basically a whole lot of &#8216;I&#8217;ll try this and see what happens&#8217;. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lovefibre.com/2011/01/14/sketchbook-project/</link>
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		<title>since June&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I needed a blogging break after finishing my course but it grew rather longer than I intended. If anyone is still here reading, this is what I&#8217;ve been doing since then. In July, I was given a couple of Tiree fleeces, a Jacob and a Suffolk, by a very kind crofter friend, and spent some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lovefibre.com/2010/11/10/since-june/</link>
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		<title>the sketchbook project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve signed up to get a sketchbook for the Sketchbook Project 2011 &#8211; run by Art House Co-op in Brooklyn. A little scary, but I (virtually) know quite a few people who&#8217;re taking part &#8211; and anyone can join in &#8211; it should be a great project to be part of. My sketchbook hasn&#8217;t arrived [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lovefibre.com/2010/06/21/the-sketchbook-project/</link>
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		<title>the last lap: the table runner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While I was looking at napkin rings and cuffs on Flickr, I saw this beautiful forest poetry cuff by Cathy Cullis, and it gave me the clue I needed for the final element in my hospitality piece. I loved the combination of fabric and text, and the frayed &#8216;wabi sabi&#8217; quality, which echoes with my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lovefibre.com/2010/06/16/the-last-lap-the-table-runner/</link>
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		<title>the last lap: changing direction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the first trial felt mat, I decided to needlefelt dots of fibre within a circular area, leaving a border of undecorated felt where I was going to try writing some text. I can&#8217;t post a photo as I sent off the samples with my assignment without taking any, but it was &#8211; just &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lovefibre.com/2010/06/16/the-last-lap-changing-direction/</link>
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		<title>the last lap: developing the theme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I should warn that this post is going to be long &#8211; it&#8217;s the tale of my final assignment for OCA Textiles 1, &#8220;A Design Project&#8221;. I&#8217;ve posted the package, I&#8217;ve written the evaluation, I just need to record the process and &#8211; I&#8217;m done. Three years including my deferment and my extension &#8211; and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lovefibre.com/2010/06/16/the-last-lap-developing-the-theme/</link>
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		<title>context and originality (or &#8216;who said it first?&#8217;)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In her comments on my fabric manipulation assignment, my tutor mentioned that when writing about my work I should &#8216;extend [my] frame of reference to include the work of other artists and craftspersons&#8217; &#8211; to show that I&#8217;m aware of contemporary and historical textiles and to show how I&#8217;m influenced by others. I must admit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lovefibre.com/2010/05/25/context-and-originality-or-who-said-it-first/</link>
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		<title>playing with colour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One final post about the &#8216;Textile Structures&#8217; module &#8211; though actually it&#8217;s the first exercise &#8211; working from a visual source and analysing colour, texture and proportion. Choosing an image and first painting blocks of colour, then wrapping card with yarn, is intended to make you look closely at the colours and their qualities and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lovefibre.com/2010/05/24/playing-with-colour/</link>
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		<title>tied up in knots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve enjoyed all the exercises in the &#8216;Textile Structures&#8217; section of OCA Textiles 1. One exercise involved making a frame and wrapping, binding and interlacing materials in an improvisational way to create areas of solidity and space, light and shade. I made a little frame from bamboo skewers lashed together and using white and natural [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lovefibre.com/2010/05/23/tied-up-in-knots/</link>
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