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Rachel Meyers Hefferan
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It's farm fashion Friday so I'm sharing (some of) my WiP - one of which is a pair of pants!

#knit #weave #farm #repeat
Patterned pink and dark purple knit pants that are just over half way finished laid out on the floor. The left leg is about 1/4th of the way complete. A table top loom tilted up towards the viewer on a coffee table. Cluttered weaving supplies to the left and a wall covered in many frames/artworks in the background Two haybale feeders in the distance of a snow covered wooded yard. No animals are in this picture but there is a soft winding path of wasted hay on the ground in shapes that are almost like puddles between snow.
March 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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The only energy I had yesterday was couch potato energy. Moved the loom to be near the couch. Worked ok!
A table top loom on a coffee table in a wide angle image that shows the hint of being taken from a plaid couch. A dog rests on the rug behind the loom, the walls are covered in artworks and objects. A top down image of what's on the loom. Stripes & checks in neutrals with blue and small red and pink accents
March 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Last week's positives in a nutshell.

Donkey + double weave 🫏

#weaving #art #farming #family
Rachel leaning over a stall wall smiling and nearly touching noses with a mostly white donkey, whose face fills half the frame Rachel and her husband standing on either side of Puzzle, a white donkey. They are standing in a snowy field with trees in the far background and smiling at the camera - each person has their hand on Puzzle. A family style portrait A top down image of a textile being woven. A shuttle sits above the finished line of cloth which moves from a highly patterned area into a more visually calm but textured fabric that is dominantly a light brown with large blocks of blue and black A weavers view of fabric being made on the loom, there are stripes in both direction that make a variety of color combinations in blues, golds blacks and whites.
February 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Reposted by Rachel Meyers Hefferan
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February 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Taking a Double Huck class through the guild. It's the good stuff but I spied a mistake yesterday in my work and I will be unweaving today 😭🫠
A table top loom with a short length of woven cloth completed on it. Colors are blue, black, off white and a mid tone taupe/brown. The fabric is textured (a lace structure) all over and colors meet in stripes and blocks. A close up image of the woven cloth. Here the neutral brown and shades of blues & blacks meet at vertical stripes instead of horizontal ones. There is one mistake horizontal line of brown where it doesn't belong.
January 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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New rule for 2025: Unpredicted time to myself must be used for non monetized activities.

#knitting #wool #rest
January 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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It's #fiberfarmfashionfriday !

Sometimes when you love fashion and raise livestock things get a little hilarious. Thus, Farm Fashion Friday was born between Johanna @acreknot.bsky.social and I!

I'm sure others celebrate. Here's mine. #wool #vintage #knit #weave #farm #fashion
January 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Nothing like a good snow ❄️

#sheep #snow
January 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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On the loom. Always entertaining myself with clasp weft and the way striping stacks.

#weaving #ontheloom
Top down view of handwoven cloth at the loom. It is wool in browns, striped yellows, and magenta with a fancy point-twill structure
January 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Just screaming into the void: I make things!
A large floor loom made of walnut threaded with bright orange bailing twine, with balls of bailing twine sorted by color in the foreground and many textiles in the background. A quilt on one wall and a grouping of circular frames holding more weavings on the adjacent wall.
January 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM