The Roving Gnome

FiberWorld 2020 is live and so are the shop updates for it!New things will be added to the shop throughout the festival, so check back! And, grab a ticket and join us at the festival! Take classes (open to registration until day of classes), chat with vendors, watch demonstrations, and catch prize giveaways and flash sales!FiberWorld 2020 Enjoy the new stuff, and the new stuff to come!

So the weather has been AWFUL lately. 90 degrees and up. With baking sun, that only climbs. So, we've been trying to get the workshop insulated so we can put in some sort of cooling system. As when it's 90, the workshop hit's 97, and if I turn on the dust collector it goes up another 7-10 degrees. 117 with full PPE is... not smart.  That will happen soon and will make things much better, but will have to wait a bit as Chris has to go to Guam. But when he's back, he has to quarantine, so we'll have time...

No long post today. Getting stuff dyed, braided, finished, etc. 

So here's a glimpse into the Gnome's workshop  today...

Another set of projects I've been working on has been furniture. But not normal furniture, oh no, that would be far too... normal. No, I have been making special furniture for my dear friend Franklin Habit, for a project he's been working on. This is an amazing project by one of the most awesome and creative people I've ever met. So of course, I wanted to do my best to enable it. Because are you even a fiber artist if you don't enable your friends?  It started with a simple, "Hey, you need anything? I have a tool that'd help and nothing...