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Abby's Yarns
http://abbysyarns.com/wordpress/
Abby Franquemont has been involved in the fiber arts since birth. The daughter of field anthropologists and fiber artists, she spent much of her childhood growing up in the Peruvian weaving town of Chinchero, learning those traditional arts in traditional ways, in addition to learning Western-derived fiber arts in the United States.
Abby weaves, spins, dyes, braids, crochets, knits, sews, mends, designs, and teaches, and is always eager to further her fiber arts repertoire as well as spread knowledge about textiles. She owns and operates Franquemont Fibers / Abby's Yarns in southern Ohio, and serves on the board of directors of Andean Textile Arts, which sponsors the Center for Traditional Textiles of Cusco.
- Added on: Dec 22nd, 2006
- Country: United States
- Language: English
Recent Posts
I Survived SOAR 2009…
...and all I got was this funny-lookin' spinning wheel that isn't even back home with me yet. Alden Amos custom Canadian Saxony with very exhausted SOAR mentor recovering from SOAR flu I'm way too tired to give the whole story just yet, but now you k...
Riding The Rapids
So this one time when I was a teenager, our family went whitewater rafting on the Vilcanota River. And actually, there's a few really good stories about that trip, but I'm going to save them for later, because the thing I was really just thinking abo...
Ta-DAH!
I'd like to thank Jennifer Dodd for all her incredible, fabulous, and helpful work on redesigning Abby's Yarns. Thanks to all her hard work, we're able to roll out the new and improved look and feel, and I'm going to actually be able to bring some sa...
Drafting: The Long And Short Of It DVD!
FedEx just brought me my copy of my first instructional DVD! Drafting: The Long And Short Of It, from Interweave Press and sponsored by Louet North America, is an advanced beginner to intermediate level workshop in DVD form. One hour long, we get int...
A Day In The Life, Part II
0640: Past time to get up, really. I let myself linger in bed far longer than I meant to, but man, did it feel good. I told the already-up-and-cerealed manchild that yes, he could have some computer time before going to wait for the bus, and deployed...
A Day In The Life, Part II
0640: Past time to get up, really. I let myself linger in bed far longer than I meant to, but man, did it feel good. I told the already-up-and-cerealed manchild that yes, he could have some computer time before going to wait for the bus, and deployed...
I didn't realize this until I started to comment, but it depneds on the spindle -- top whorl = sitting, bottom whorl = standing. Maybe because I roll a top-whorl spindle on my leg & that seems to work best if I'm sitting?????
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