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Weaving Away.....

With only Kansas City Textile Studio Grand Opening just ten days away, my scarf inventory is low. I am weaving away trying to weave a few new scarves. The plan is to over-dye them after they are finished but I am having a hard time to decide while weaving them. Well, my time is coming close to an end soooooo.....you will see:)

Happy, Safe Dyeing!

After more than seven years of dyeing my yarn outside of my house or in my garage and then carrying heavy buckets of yarn all the way through my house to the bathroom. Then taking hours to rinse on my knees at our tub. I am now one happy lady to have a safe place to dye my yarn that won't kill my back while rinsing:) We just got our new ventilation hood installed at the Kansas City Textile Studio. To read more, check out our blog or website. Grand Opening at the end of this month. YAY!!!

Deinstalling at Leedy-Voulkos Art Center

This afternoon I took down my woven pieces that were up for three month for a group preview show at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center in Kansas MO. i will be having a solo show in April/May of next year in their back gallery. These two pieces were some of my newer, more experimental pieces. Here is the description of the pieces and a few images

Debbie Barrett-Jones

1364 Threads Pulled One at a Time

Passing Though

Weaving is an art that emphasizes process. 1364 Threads Pulled One at a Time and

Passing Though represent the tension between control and happenstance during the process. From the start of a project – drawing out the plans, drafting the pattern, dyeing yarn, and using a gradation percentage process – these pieces let go of some of control. Deconstructing what would normally be a complete, clean project shows the viewers a glimpse of the pre-weaving process, much of which can be painstakingly tedious. However, this attention to detail is equally essential to the actual work on the loom.

Each woven panel came from the same warp threads on theloom. I paired each colored thread with a white thread. In1364 Threads Pulled One at a Time, half the threads were pulled from the piece at varying lengths. The left panel was woven in all white with the colored threads pulled from the piece at varying lengths. The right panel was woven in color with the white threads pulled. The deconstructed panels reflect the process in imperfect form, ideas of which we must let go.

Passing Though exemplifies the same concept in a much cleaner, more controlled context. It, too, came from a warp that had a colored thread paired with a white thread.  Instead of pulling the thread one by one with my finger, I used a needle to slowly pull each thread halfway down the woven panel. The top half was woven in color, and I alternated pulling white thread and colored thread to create smaller stripes. The bottom half was woven in white, with the same process in larger stripes. All the pulled thread met in the middle, threaded through a loom reed.

1364 Threads Pulled One at a Time

Passing Though

Kansas City Textile Studio Sale!!!!

If anyone wasn't able to make it this weekend's Preview and Sale to raise money for equipment and still wants to check out the space, Kim and I will be at the Textile Studio again this Thursday 8/22 from 6pm to 8pm. We will still have all our sale prices going - 20% and 40% off lots of great handmade textile pieces to support the purchase of equipment for the studio.

New BIG Project, Kansas City Textile Studio

Yay!!!! My friend Kim and I are starting up Kansas City Textile Studio.

Our Mission

The Kansas City Textile Studio is a community based studio for fiber artists, crafters, knitters, quilters/etc., run by Kim Eichler-Messmer and Debbie Barrett Jones. We aim to create a space that people can use to safely dye yarn and fabric and work on other sewing and fiber related projects that they might not have room for at home. Some of the things we are working on, in addition to creating a functioning fiber studio, include hosting workshops and classes, critiques/show and tell, holiday sales, and a membership that would include discounts on studio use and a featured spot on our blog.

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Christmas In July Sale

Billy Sue Textiles

 Debbie Barrett-Jones

Rock To Sleep Designs

We Are Going To France

And something new I am working on:)