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Textile Guides


tips, techniques, patterns and ideas


by Sarah C Swett

with Phineas, Crow and the gang



The perfect yarn is a column of air surrounded by fiber.


The best ideas show up when I’m doing something else.


The ideal project takes over my life and requires a season or two to complete. Or a year. Or three. It demands time, but not money. Or new clothes. Sometimes it is new clothes. 

The design worth pursuing is not a design at all, but life made manifest in color, texture, image. It is a second captured in cloth, an unfolding story, a small miracle.


This work infiltrates my dreams, builds my biceps, thrills me to the bone and drives me to tears. When I was seven I turned scraps of yarn into a magic carpet. I am still at it.