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SilverWheelYarn

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My Bio
Silver Wheel Yarn is a weaving studio in downtown Somerset, KY specializing in hand woven heirloom quality textiles, delicate hand-spinning, and knitting pattern design, and education in these crafts. Utilizing antique looms, innovative equipment, and a provocative attention to detail, Silver Wheel Yarn elevates the craft of weaving into an art. Rare exotic fibers, hand-dying, and hand-spinning give the inspiration and ability to produce remarkable items of fashion and practicality.

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Current Residence: Somerset, Ky
Favourite genre of music: Traditional Music of Differnt Cultures
Favourite style of art: religious
Favourite cartoon character: Word Girl
Personal Quote: "I didn't know how to do it eather until I learned."

Favourite Visual Artist
CJ Bloomer
Favourite Movies
Old Japanese Samurai Movies
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
CJ Bloomer
Favourite Writers
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Tools of the Trade
this line isn't big enough
Other Interests
hiking, horses, photography
Everyone knows that I teach classes, but I have just recently started teaching them online.  It's pretty awesome and this class is even more awesome. You might want to ask your ancestors for help with this class because it's going to be epic.  For eight days over four months we're going to learn everything you need to know to make a shawl from start to finish; raw fleece to a finished fabric ALL ONLINE! We will take the fleece from washing, to carding, to dyeing, to spinning, through design and onto a warp.  I will show you how to use the most available equipment types out there today and you will choose the technique you like best.  What ev
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We make our money teaching classes; weaving, spinning, dyeing, fiber prep, knitting, and anything else people want to know.  I love teaching adults and younger individuals that actually care about the art and what you can do with it.  However, groups of children are very quickly becoming something I never want to do again after we had to deal with a mixed group of c leptos, indifferent, refusing to listen, and down right rude children who touch things with out asking.  It's becoming a common result of these activities and, although it usually pays well, it isn't worth bringing down my moral so much it steals a week of productivity.  So, this
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Yeah, I disappeared for a while.  Deviant Art got all weird and I was ready to move, so I fell off the face of the earth.  Not that Silver Wheel Yarn stopped making things.  Actually we have grown to be a lot larger than we were back then. We bought the perfect house in downtown Somerset, Ky with enough room that I can have the two largest rooms for my studio and classroom.  We have 4 looms now and have shifted into using local fibers for almost everything we make.  I have started quilting and have just finished my first large quilt.  There is a lot to show you over the next few weeks. I'll catch you up as I go, but if you want the whole st
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Happy New Year  You!! Hope it's a whackily pulchritudinous cornucopia of manifold whopsishness, blarfinkle franicarckles and anything else that you would count a blessing to encounter in your life! Peter. :)  later!
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Just thought I'd pop by and wish you a happy new year and good luck with everything! Peter. :) :hug:
Thanks for doing traditional art.
May the long-time sun shine upon, love surround you always, and the pure light within you guide your way on.

Best wishes for the new year and all you do!

Bye fer now, Peter. :hug:
YeeeeeeeeeeHaaaaaaaaaaaaw and a happy St. Patrick's Day to you too