Lighthouse, Lobster and Looms - August 2012

We began the month visiting old friends in Deer Isle, Maine. Deer Isle is such a lovely spot - the last time I'd been was at a Haystack workshop many years ago. Out on the water at dusk, I managed to get a rather iconic lighthouse shot. Dusk create such mysterious shadows and is my favorite time to take photographs. And of course I ate LOBSTER.

There's  lots of fiber activity in Maine, so it was a true busman's holiday. Tim Whitten, an engineer by training and now an artisan, owns the Marlinespike Chandlery in Stonington, and creates incredible ropework. I also met Christine Leith of Eggemoggin Textile Studio, who dyes and weaves luscious textiles with silk fiber. In the small world department, she knows some members of California Fibers quite well, including Carrie Burckle, who stayed with Christine while taking a class at Haystack. I also wandered into the flagship store for String Theory Hand Dyed Yarn and caressed some "hand dyed yarn that's out of this world."

Then back in Los Angeles, I opened my copy of Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot and discovered my piece "Elephant in the Room" had been featured in an article on Looming Election: Woven Works at the Craft in America Study Center!