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luthvarian
Luthvarian
Meagan is a librarian and fiber artist who has been spinning yarn for over a decade.
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Kansas City
http://twitch.tv/luthvarian
December 30, 2017
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fiberarts
2y
Fiber Arts and Gaming
There is something about fiber arts and gaming that just seems to go together perfectly. Maybe it's the fact that they are both creative endeavors that allow you to escape from the real world for a while.
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fiberarts
2y
The Revival of Natural Plant Fibers
We are seeing a revival of natural plant fibers in the world of textiles. Once, we used a much wider variety of plant fibers than we do today. What happened? In the 1960s, synthetic fabrics overshadowed
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fiberarts
2y
Fiber artist returns to Hive
Fiber Artist Returns to Hive
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life
5y
Sick Baby = Sick Mama
Say hello to my personal germ factory. This is baby Dutch. Baby Dutch, like all babies, is gross. To give you an idea of how gross babies are, Dutch started daycare in February. From February to December,
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art
5y
Photograph: Plaster Relief
The in-laws brought this plaster relief, a family heirloom, when they visited us this week. My husband does painting and airbrush work, so they want him to repaint it. We're thinking of leaving the existing
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food
5y
Photo: Thanksgiving with Baby Dutch
I'm not super into Thanksgiving for a number of reasons, but we celebrate it for our parents. Regardless of any sociopolitical reasons, it is an opportunity for our parents to visit us and visit their
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food
5y
Convenience Produce - Trying Imperfect Foods
My family usually buys produce at the KC City Market, a large farmer's market located in the River Market district in Kansas City. The market offers excess produce that grocery stores won't take at reduced
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poetry
5y
Subcontext
Subcontext she told her story in poems and bullet journal pages in baked goods and yarn in the quiet moments between late birthday cards and secrets ruined by savvy she told her story to the underside
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homesteading
5y
Phototropism & In-door Corn
One of my projects this Autumn and Winter is to grow corn inside. So far, I've got some lovely 6-8" shoots in my dining room. I've been using a 50 watt LED grow light in a floor lamp 14-16 hours each
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food
5y
Cottage Loaf
There's something magical about making bread. It isn't something I do often, but I keep supplies on hand, including a sourdough starter I maintain, just in case I feel like rocking out a loaf of one kind
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art
5y
Shave 'Em to Save 'Em Initiative
The Livestock Conservancy has started a three year program called Shave 'Em to Save 'Em. The goal for the program is to increase awareness of rare breeds of sheep. Merino has taken over the wool market
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shiba
5y
Sunshine Shiba Slice of Life
Bento is such a good boy. He is one of two Shibas who are members of our family. He's always been a sassy, but he's gone under an incredible transformation since the birth of our child at the end of last
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gardening
5y
Square-Foot Garden - Corn in my Dining Room
Though I live in the suburbs of Kansas City, I maintain a square-foot garden year-round to help supplement my family's dinner table and to provide a source of plant fiber and dye materials for my fiber
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art
5y
Back in Action - a Wooly Return
It has been more than two years since I've been on Steemit. Life has provided me a number of challenges and opportunities since then. I've grown my fiber arts business and my family. I've started regularly
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art
7y
#needleworkmonday ALL THE SHEEP
Happy #NeedleWorkMonday! I'm excited to say I had a fantastically fibrous weekend! I went to visit a local sheep farm, Wildflower Acres. This was a great opportunity! Not only did I get to meet Holiday
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needleworkmonday
7y
#NeedleworkMonday Fractals and Failures
Happy #needleworkmonday! This week I finished a fractal yarn spun from BFL and silk. We had a great discussion on our live stream about visual color blending and I'll be posting a blog entry about how
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needlworkmonday
7y
#NeedleworkMonday: Made some yarn
Happy #NeedleworkMonday! This week I've been busting stash. I finished a cowl made from hand-spun, hand-dyed Lincoln locks. The photo doesn't show it well, but there are subtle yellow beads where the lacework
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knitting
7y
Silk Cocoons
We had a little failure while dyeing silk cocoons. I had planned to dye them last week and had them soaking. Well, I wasn't able to do it last week, so I saved it for this week. They fermented. Ew. But
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needleworkmonday
7y
#needleworkmonday Unspun Silk Cowl
I've been slow to post this last week. It is because I've been hard at work putting together a website and blog for my fiber arts. www.luthvarian.com If you're interested in fiber arts and receiving
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needleworkmonday
7y
#needlworkmonday - Teaching spinning
This weekend I had the pleasure to teach my husband and a friend how to spin while on stream. To celebrate his 2000th follower, my husband decided to learn to spin and teach how to make some cocktails,
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