Weaving A New Future One Shuttle At A Time

I am just not sure what happened to September. It was here and then gone in a flash and now somehow it is the first week in October. Time flies and even faster when you have one crisis after another to deal with on the homefront and your creative juices are flowing again. So let's see what's in the works for this month.

First, I have been making more hand carved and hand-painted "Wild Weavers" band-weaving shuttles and having some fun with that.
 

Grab one while you still can! They are selling quickly, but I will make more as time allows and you can see what shuttles are still available here in this album on facebook. They make great gifts for the weaver in your life and are just  as useful as they are fun. Because not everyone weaves, but everyone loves art, and animals, I will also be making some little carved and painted ornaments and will post a link to an album when I get enough made up. Stay tuned.


There are other things in the works here, as well, and I will also be writing a post later this weekend about my renewed interest in making pen and ink drawings, and painting, and the fun I am having with Higgins Inks and Inktober 2019 #Inktober19 because the amazing folks at higgins sent me some Black Magic ink, some white and super white ink and I am all into re-learning the art of drawing with real pens and not just markers!

If you like what I do and want to help me keep doing it but don't want to buy any artwork right now, please consider buying me a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/ghosthorsestudios

Lost in Space.... To Weave or Not to Weave... Where did the Last Year Go?

Well it's been a whole year since I blogged... So what happened to me? and why now? OK... so... to make a long and rather boring story short... it was a long and rather boring year... 

 

First... I made a valiant try to learn how to weave on an Inkle loom, and made these lovely soft cotton reins for horses which it seems weren't strong enough to 'hold your horses' so I abandoned that idea.....

 

 
Then I moved up to a rigid heddle loom and made my mom some kitchen towels... They ended up being three different sizes when I washed them... so..

Oh but notice the super cute little punch needle bird I made...  I need to try more of that when I find time... That and rug hooking/punching and so many other things I got off on false starts with last year...

Anyway, then I got the bright idea I could make some rag rugs to sell and made this, but it was too hard to do on such a small loom, so finally, I was given/gifted/loaned a floor loom... which sits in the corner and mocks me because it needs work done on it that I can't afford to do like putting new shafts on it :( I am thinking it may become a sort of tapestry loom when I find the time to think how to do that....


Well I still want to weave, but may have reached my level of incompetence (see "The Peter Principal") However one good thing did come of it... 

I am still making the weaving shuttles in the shape of animals... "Wild Weavers"... You can find them here in my Etsy Shop: Ajaia Ajaja
 

Of course I'm still making beadwork...

 

And so, due to the immediate need to make some actual income...  here I am designing coloring pages for adult coloring books... Think demons, dragons, fairies, gargoyles...

More on that later... I promise!...