Hand Woven Scarves for sale........

Finally did some photography work for the etsy shop - I needed 4-5 shots for each scarf listing, took many more than that to get 4-5 decent ones.  Here are the latest listings in the etsy shop - an off-white merino/seacell scarf, a painted warp ginkgo scarf in autumn colors, a sage/rust gingko scarf and a teal/fuschia dragonfly scarf - the last 3 scarves are all tencel.  More scarves to take photos of in the near future........

Still treading water here, gulping for air at times. I have been able to cross a few things off the long to-do list. Huge Ashland Bay order placed for roving for my other etsy shop - I will be spending several days weighing, bagging, labeling, putting into inventory and updating the shop when it comes in. I placed a bigger than normal order as to take advantage of the prices before they increase in the next month.

Many scarves, 9 to be exact, left the studio this week for new homes - I know 7 of them are destined to become holiday gifts - I hope the recipients love them.  I really need to get back to weaving - life keeps interfering........sometimes for fun stuff, sometimes for administrivia. I've got more holiday gifts to knit and other requiring assembly of handwoven/handmade parts, holiday gift sewing to do...... perhaps some work on those will start happening later today.

New listings in my etsy shop

Oh, how I struggle with the photography part of having etsy shops. I still haven't mastered this new camera, I loved my old one........which I dropped several times and finally did in. It's a crap shoot getting good pictures but I do my best. One of these days it would probably help to take a photography class............or maybe that could be something Sam does when he retires so he can be in charge of photography and shipping, handling and inventory control. Anyhow, these are now up for sale in my etsy shop........I have set a red one aside for myself but I haven't tried it on with my red tank & jacket yet to see if the color is right. The copper one calls me but I'm always drawn to colors like that, as well as the sage, I need to branch out and get more variation in my personal scarf collection so I'm not wearing the same colors all the time.

no weaving once again....

Once again a day without weaving....there was laundry & vacuuming, boxing up & shipping of orders and then the dreaded photography work in order to sell more. This is one of my hardest jobs, I'm just not good at it. So, I spent the better part of the afternoon photographing 14 items for my etsy shop....now I'll spend a good deal of time editing and resizing them....not to mention gradually listing them. Where is that photography department when I need it, oh yeah, I don't have one....come to think of it I don't have a shipping and receiving department either.....

On another note - I'll be starting to dye roving again soon so I'm putting some older colorways in my etsy shop on sale - 6 went on sale today....shameless plug.... 

Picture taking......

I spent some time Sunday taking pictures of recently woven items - this is something I struggle with all the time. Here's an example of one of the scarves, although not perfect I like the composition of this picture.

Etsy picture taking

Today is a day of snapping photos for my soon to be etsy storefront - what a job and I'm only taking them of a fraction of what I have in stock to sell at this time. Thought I would post a couple so everyone could see some more examples of my work. Here's a chenille shawl woven in rayon chenille in purple/teal/royal blue. And then one of my arachnid scarves out of novelty yarns - it is held together with a grid of sewing thread - very delicate and beautiful fashion scarf. I'm aiming for getting the etsy storefront (website sales) up and running this weekend but how knows, much left to do in documenting and picture taking. I'll post a link to it as soon as it's up and running.