Exciting news: the nearby town of Huntingdon, PA is trying to start a Fiber ArtsFest! It will be May 25, 2013, on the campus of Juniata College in Huntingdon.

I’ll be teaching a four-hour tablet-weaving class in the afternoon, “Card Weaving for Anyone.” (I offered to send them a photo without the dangling threads, honest. But I do like that band.) The class will be suitable for all experience levels: beginners are welcome, and I’m pretty sure that even experienced tablet weavers will learn something.

The sample band in the photo? That’s what we’ll be doing by the end of class. Really.

Even if you’ve never woven before, you’ll be weaving something like this by the end of class.

tablet weaving

That’s my current project, and will be trim eventually.

In other news, the baby plants in the garden continue to grow.

sprouts

The daffodils are in full swing.

daffodils

And we’re about to have a tulip explosion.

tulips

Welcome!

I’ve been doing stuff with string for quite some time, and describing it to others online since 1996 or so at Phiala’s String Page.

I also do some science and write some fiction.

I’m Phiala most places on the internet.