Two different styles of handwoven rugs are the last two Sievers classes of the season, Boundweave Rugs with Lynn Schuster and Rag Rug Weaving with Deb Sharpee. This week, the Boundweave students have explored color and design using heavy wool warp and wool rug yarn. All of the rugs have their own story, but this first one has an Island theme where the sheep have jumped over the fence and are making their way through the lavender fields before coming to a stand of trees, guarded by a woodpecker. What a great array of colors and designs! Each walk into the studio was a new “reveal” of pattern and color! The same is true outside as the leaves start […]
Last Day, Part 2
Today is the last day of the season for regular hours at the consignment and yarn shop. Already, a number of artists have had their handmade items returned to them for art fairs or for the holidays. These boxes await the rest of the inventory. Yesterday marked the last days for a few other places on the Island. The folks at the Red Cup Coffee House are taking their own well-deserved “coffee break” and will re-open next spring. The Lavender Shop at Fragrant Isle closed yesterday. The shop will be moving to a new location, being built at the corner of Town Line and Airport Roads, about a half-mile west of the Historic Dairy. New lavender fields are being prepared for planting […]
