It's blurry and the color is off, however, I streamed a how to video on creating cloth using silk carrier rods.
Constructed Fabric from Silk Carrier Rods
Constructed Fabric from Silk Carrier Rods
Rusted Silk Carrier Rod Cuff
Rust Dyed Silk Cocoons and Carrier Rods
Ideas for the newest zine!
Silk Carrier Rods
Am working on the new zine this afternoon, so far InDesign has locked up on me only once :-)
Constructed Rusted Cloth
I had put together a zine sometime ago on how to make constructed cloth with silk carrier rods, and found it while cleaning up some folders on my computer. This is one of the samples.
Rusted Silk Carrier Rods
Rusted Silk Carrier Rods - stitched to Aquabond a water soulble stabilizer.
Detail 1
Detail 2 - I used a leather needle and heavy cotton threads to machine stitch the constructed cloth layer.
Detail 3 - some areas of the silk carrier rods were exceptionally stiff, I simply left as is on the surface.
Prairie Potholes No. 12 Detail
Prairie Potholes No. 12
Prairie Potholes No. 122008 - December
8.5 x 10 inches
Rusted Silk
Rusted Silk Constructed Cloth
Oh Quilt Where are Thou?
Somewhere in this pile of fabrics is my new Prairie Pothole Series, to supplement my large selection of compost dyed, natural dyed, and rust dyed fabrics is a bag of natural dyed silk carrier rods dyed in rich vibrant red violets, deepest golden, mysterious purple and palest pink!Prairie Potholes
I'll have to post pictures next week on the results but I've finally be able to break past the circle thing - well sorta. Anyway more next week on this series, maybe I'll even get into the wet studio??? Here's a sneak preview of what's on the docet for this new 12 panel series.
Prairie Grasses Handspun Art Yarn
Hand Spun Art Yarn by me! - Mohair, wool, silk, alpaca, angelina, natural dyed yarns, ribbons, and silk carrier rods. Size: 1.2 oz at 32 yards
Blush to Bordeaux
Art Yarns
Wool batts, silk carrier rods, and more available in my shop
What I'm up to, making art yarns for embellishing my moss piece of course!Art Batt
Wool batt, silk carrier rods, silk sliver, flax, mohair roving, and thrums are available in my shop. 
Normally I don't post here but wanted to share what I was up too tonight, I'm experimenting with some new art yarns. Right now I'm tired and am hurting a lot from doing yard work today, so I cheated and instead of making up a new batt I pulled a half used one out of my stash. The silk carrier rods to the right are rust dyed the others were dyed using acid dyes.Rust Banner Image
This piece was made using rust dyed Silk Carrier Rods!
Rusted Carrier Rods
Here I'm making constructed cloth with the silk carrier rods. I've plans to rutst more rods this evening and do some further experimentation with them. I have more rusted rods that I'm making a evening bag out of, will post pictures later.
Working on this small project has helped me to resolve a quilt I've had on hold for a very long time. I will be overdyeing some rusted rods with cutch and adding them as embellishment to the quilt surface. The top photo is a detail shot of the constructed cloth.