A Whole Lot of Counting Going On! – Blog Post
Weavers are always counting. Counting warp ends as we wind our warps. Recounting those warp threads, heddles and dents as we prepare our looms for weaving. And counting as we weave, passing the shuttle from one side to another. Years ago, when we first started stocking the color Coral in our Tubular Spectrum™ line of […]
Designer Spotlight Blog Post – Sedona Rigsby
We hope you have been enjoying our Designer Spotlight series as much as we have! Today’s spotlight comes from Sedona Rigsby, an incredibly talented, young weaver from Santa Fe! Sedona’s passion is creating garments and elevated wearables from handwoven textiles. Whether she is a student or the teacher, Sedona is making waves in the weaving […]
Mocha Mousse! Pantone Color of 2025! – Blog Post
Pantone has released their color of the year for 2025! This coming year’s selection is a color from Pantone, called Mocha Mousse. Warm and comforting the color brings hot chocolate, thick mocha coffee and all kinds of indulgences to mind! According to Pantone, PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse is a classic color with humble and grounded […]
Skinny and Steel–Blog Post
Katzy took Denise Kovnat’s class at IWC Conference in Logan, Utah and got to see fabrics woven with stainless steel yarns. What? Weaving with stainless steel? That sounds crazy! But really, these are thin yarns: two-ply with a thin stainless-steel wire plied with a silk or cotton strand. The thicker the yarn, the thicker the […]
With Style and Grace! An Awesome Dishcloth!–Blog Post
After we published the post about Katzy’s search for the perfect washcloth, Amber came into the shop with her version of the perfect crocheted washcloth! Wow! Amber knocked all our socks off! She used the 4-ply naturally colored American Maid ™ yarn that we are selling as a closeout yarn and combined it with our […]
Searching for the Perfect Knitted Washcloth–Blog Post
Washcloths are useful. And most of us make washcloths in some way. We knit, we crochet, we weave, we make washcloths out of all kinds of things. As Lunatics, we love our American Maid™ woven washcloths, and our quick and easy Weekend washcloths. But sometimes we are on the go and want to take our […]
Peachfuzz! Pantone Color of 2024! – Blog Post
Pantone has released their color of the year for 2024! This coming year’s selection is a gentle color from Pantone, called Peach Fuzz. Pantone number 13-1023 Peach Fuzz captures our desire to nurture ourselves and others. As they say on their website: “Pantone’s Peach Fuzz is a velvety gentle peach tone whose all-embracing spirit […]
Dark Side of the Moon – Blog Post
Hear the softly spoken magic spells. Playtime is a necessary part of our creative lives. Sometimes it comes while we are working on other projects, during unexpected down times, and sometimes it is scheduled into our days. How ever that play time is structured, it often leads to wonderful projects that we didn’t anticipate at […]
Dimensional Cloth Workshop – Blog Post
We Lunatics have gone to a lot of conferences over the 30+ years that we have been in business. However, it isn’t very often that we give ourselves the time to participate in the classes offered at the conferences. This year at IWC in Logan Utah, we sprang our fearless leader, Katzy, from booth duty so […]
Viva Magenta! Pantone Color of 2023! – Blog Post
The draft shown here uses our Tubular Spectrum™ yarns in 10 Red Purple, Sky Blue, Violet, Coral, Very Light Gray and Bleached White. This draft is adapted from our Toasty Turned Tacquete Cowls. We have a printable version of this draft if you would like to print it out. Click here. Pantone has released […]