luthvarian

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.

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

Fiber Artist Returns to Hive

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,