Welcome to my website, The Traveling Tiger!
Here I have shared some of my many interests - fiber arts, adventure travel, cycling, and crafts. I hope you enjoy perusing the site! If you are curious about anything, drop me a line at !
Here I have shared some of my many interests - fiber arts, adventure travel, cycling, and crafts. I hope you enjoy perusing the site! If you are curious about anything, drop me a line at !
A lovely garnet red/black handwoven coat, in a Celtic knotwork pattern of my own devising. Still in progress.
I expect this project to take me a year or so to complete – I intend not only to design and weave the fabric, but also to design and sew the dress myself, using couture sewing methods. There are three fabrics in this wedding ensemble – an eternity knot pattern, a Chinese double-happiness character pattern (the double-happiness character signifies a happy marriage), and a three-strand Celtic braid pattern. Together they symbolize a wish for eternal happiness in marriage!
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Today we pinned up the hem, cut and shaped the ribbon, and did various other housekeeping things. But we took a passel of photos while we were working on the hem:
These are really cool. (No, really.) The colored stripes and moire patterns in these socks are achieved using very precise skeining and dyeing technique – carefully space-dyed (handpainted) yarn. I call them “ikat socks” because they look a bit like ikat (warp-painted) fabric.
I started this shawl in June, 2003, shortly before AIDS Lifecycle 2.
I had just finished my travel shawl, a blue silk shawl handspun on a drop spindle as I roamed around Southeast Asia on a quasi-pilgrimage, letting go of my past life and considering what came next. I knitted the travel shawl in a counterclockwise spiral as I wandered–which, in Wicca, means letting go, undoing.
On my return, I needed a new project, so I decided to make a companion piece–a clockwise spiral that would help build my new life, the things I most valued.