• luthvarian (55)in #fiberarts • 2 years ago

  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…

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• luthvarian (55)in #fiberarts • 2 years ago

  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…

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• luthvarian (55)in #fiberarts • 2 years ago

  Fiber artist returns to Hive

  Fiber Artist Returns to Hive

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• luthvarian (55)in #life • 5 years ago

  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…

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• luthvarian (55)in #art • 5 years ago

  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…

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• luthvarian (55)in #food • 5 years ago

  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…

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• luthvarian (55)in #food • 5 years ago

  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…

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• luthvarian (55)in #poetry • 5 years ago

  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…

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• luthvarian (55)in #homesteading • 5 years ago

  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…

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• luthvarian (55)in #food • 5 years ago

  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…

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• luthvarian (55)in #art • 5 years ago

  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…

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• luthvarian (55)in #shiba • 5 years ago

  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…

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• luthvarian (55)in #gardening • 5 years ago

  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…

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• luthvarian (55)in #art • 5 years ago

  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…

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• luthvarian (55)in #art • 7 years ago

  #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…

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• luthvarian (55)in #needleworkmonday • 7 years ago

  #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…

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• luthvarian (55)in #needlworkmonday • 7 years ago

  #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…

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• luthvarian (55)in #knitting • 7 years ago

  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…

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• luthvarian (55)in #needleworkmonday • 7 years ago

  #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…

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• luthvarian (55)in #needleworkmonday • 7 years ago

  #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…

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