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Tag Archives: studio

Studio update

30 Wednesday Sep 2020

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Show-and-tell

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DIY, studio

I can’t believe I announced the extension of my studio more than a year ago and only now realise that I never followed through on that.

So in order to begin blogging again, I guess I might as well start where we left off. I’ve spent some time delaying this by internally debating whether to begin at the end instead, so a compromise was reached: I’ll either share willy-nilly regardless of when a thing actually happened OR this might be a one off heehaw petering out into nothing. Continue reading →

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Hayloft studio

11 Thursday Jul 2019

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Painting

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country life, DIY, studio, summer

Three years since my studio was finished and it’s been a wonderful space, even more so since I had water installed. It’s also very cluttered however, the more I do, the more canvasses are stacked everywhere, done or half done, various supplies getting crammed into to few shelves. What I really need is a dry and dust free storage space and/or weaving room separate from the painting! (my dream is 100m2 heated studio with straight walls including my office/library, but that is a completely different budget, especially the heating cost) Continue reading →

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WIP Wednesday 2

28 Wednesday Feb 2018

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Painting

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Tags

colour, creativity, studio

If you’re watching this is some blog reader – please click through to the original post to see images etc! 🙂

https://piapaints.wordpress.com/2018/02/28/wip-wednesday-2/

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Wordless WIP Wednesday

31 Wednesday May 2017

Posted by Pia in Painting, Weaving, Yarn and Fiber

≈ 8 Comments

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blogging, busybee, challenge, colour, crafts, new projects, studio

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Studio anniversary

15 Monday May 2017

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Painting

≈ 13 Comments

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creativity, life, messy beyond belief, Painting, studio

Well, technically it’s been a bit more than a year since I moved in. What I can’t fathom is how it could start out like this

And end up like that?

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Loom extension

05 Monday Dec 2016

Posted by Pia in Show-and-tell, Weaving, Yarn and Fiber

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cotton, crafts, DIY, equipment, home, loom, studio, tools, weave drafts, woven

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I’ve long wanted a few more pattern options on my Lervad no. 9 – not as much since I got the Glimåkra, but still. 8 shafts would require a lot of remodelling (for instance I would have loved to extend all the lamms), so I settled for 6. That means I can work with supplemental warps in designs, at least 3 variations of waffle weave, turned 2/1 twill blocks just to mention a few of the ideas I’ve had over the years.

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Whoosh

24 Monday Oct 2016

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Show-and-tell

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life, studio

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
– Douglas Adams

I knew already by Thursday that today’s planned post wasn’t going to make it – in fact I think this is going to be a kind of short story week overall. So how about I make a little series of “inside the studio” situational images until I have something finished to show, alternatively to say?

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Activities

05 Wednesday Oct 2016

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Painting, Plant Dyeing, Yarn and Fiber

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colour, crafts, intention, life, studio, wool, yarn

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Since I’ve spent so much time telling you how little I could do, I’d better counterweight that with a little progress update from the good days. Among other things I managed to grab some more photographic weather, so I now have a gazillion horse- and sunset photos to process and compile into little galleries now that it’s getting colder. Continue reading →

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July WIP Wednesday

06 Wednesday Jul 2016

Posted by Pia in Books & reading, Chit Chat, Knitting, Painting, Show-and-tell, Yarn and Fiber

≈ 4 Comments

Tags

alpaca, clothing, crafts, studio, weather, yarn along

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Thanks to those of you writing to wish me well – I’m much better now but have been taking it slow and easy for a while, and I suspect I’m going to need my second chiro visit on the 15th to unstuck my neck once more, but hope to manage until then. The cat luckily is back to his usual goofy, ever hungry self; my theory is that he swallowed a bee or something like that, because we could find no explanation of his sudden peevishness.

There has been some light reading, for instance:

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The very last Discworld novel (#41): The Shepherd’s Crown

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Studio project 12

01 Wednesday Jun 2016

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Farm Life, Painting, Weaving

≈ 14 Comments

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crafts, creativity, DIY, inner conviction, intention, life, Painting, studio

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I realized that while I’ve shown glimpses from my room after finishing, I never officially wrote the last post of our building project. I’m still waiting for one set of shelves for books and weaving gear, but that requires a remodelling of G’s office, so I’ll count that as improvement rather than part of the “done”.

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