McFarland Creek Lamb Ranch yarn is available at Twisted Knitters. Photo by L aurelle Walsh
Twisp and Winthrop holiday bazaars starting in November. Two Seattle outlets — Eight Limbs Yoga Centers and Samadhi Yoga Center — carry Neve Wear year-round. Online orders may be placed at www.mokshastudio.net/neve-wear. Textiles at TwispWorks Among the entrepreneurs, artisans and artists on the TwispWorks campus, a handful of textile artists are making one-of-a-kind wearables— one designing gear specifically for our canine companions.
Sharing a building with the Valley Teen Center, La Fabrica fiber art studio and boutique features the work of designer Jae Cremin. Cremin experiments with several fiber art techniques including felting, botanical dyes, Shibori, and felt painting to make “one-of-a-kind, unduplicatable pieces,” she said. Cremin studied in Belgium and Germany, where she learned Nuno felting and hat making. Her felted merino-wool-and-silk cloches and fingerless gloves for sale at La Fabrica are displayed among her
hand-dyed silk scarves, camisoles and pillowcases. Across the campus at Culler Studio in the South Warehouse, botanical alchemist Sara Ashford uses ancient techniques to coax natural dyes from flowers, leaves, roots, pigments and minerals. These she applies to linen, gauzy cottons, hemp, silk and wool blends to make one-of-a-kind fabrics. A dye garden next to the studio provides some of the botanical dye ingredients, which are grown on site or gathered from the wild. Ashford
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also teaches classes throughout the year in Japanese Shibori techniques, Victorian flower pounding, eco printing, and Japanese wood block printing. Ashford’s scarves, shawls and wraps, and hand-painted Icelandic wool yarn are for sale at Culler Studio, Sun Mountain Lodge, Nectar Skin Bar, Goat’s Beard Mountain Supplies and Confluence Gallery and Art Center. Next door, Twisted Knitters — a yarn and knitting shop — carries the Methow-made yarns of two spinners named Katie: Katie Haven and Katie Swanson. Swanson buys sheep and alpaca fleeces and hand spins the wool into three-ply yarn. Some of Swanson’s yarns are the natural color of the fleece, while others she dyes at her home studio. Swanson also designs patterns for knitters. Kits to make her Mosaic Mojo hats and a knitted shawl called the Fats Domino wrap are also for sale at Twisted Knitters. Katie Havens raises Romney sheep at her McFarland Creek Lamb Ranch, dyes their fleeces using locally sourced botanical dyes, and sends them out to a custom spinning company to be spun into yarn. Each skein is labeled with the name of the sheep that provided the wool. Some of the white, black, grey and brown fleeces are left undyed for natural color yarn. McFarland Creek Lamb Ranch yarns are sold at Twisted Knitters, the Mazama Store, Conf luence Gallery and Art Center, Cashmere Cottage Yarns in
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