'Weave the Landscape' on Monhegan Island in Maine - Sept. 21-25, 2026

Register now to interpret beautiful seaside landscapes into cloth you can bring home at this 4 day workshop!

After our first super fun workshop last October, I'm leading the 2nd annual Monhegan Island "Weave the Landscape" workshop, teaching beginning weaving skills to anyone who's wanted to try weaving on a four harness floor loom, at this beautiful destination! I visited Monhegan Island with a great friend in June 2025 and fell in love with it. Join me for gentle hikes and to storytell with yarn, texture and color, to create pieces you can bring home. We'll have lots of fun and plenty of downtime for your own island explorations. For more info or to register, please call Kathy at (413) 522-0358 or email kathy@firecrowhandwovens.com. I'd love to hear from you!

Early registrations encouraged. Maximum of 8 students.

I will send a link to the Monhegan House rooms reservation block after you register.

Posted: to General News on Mon, Jan 19, 2026
Updated: Mon, Jan 19, 2026

Art Beat: A life alive with color

by Trish Crapo, Greenfield Recorder

Wednesday, February 17, 2016
(Published in print: Thursday, February 18, 2016)

Turning onto Bascom Road off Lampblack Road in Greenfield and winding your way down the curving road into Gill is like driving back in time.

The narrow road, tunneled with trees, opens surprisingly into a broad expanse where two traditional New England farmhouses with barns, fields and pastures sit diagonally across the road from each other. At the second farm, two donkeys gaze with curiosity over the fence, while cattle search for grass under the snow with their noses.

People sometimes call the area “The Hidden Valley,” says weaver Kathy Litchfield, who lives and works in one of the farmhouses in Bascom Hollow. She and her husband, Ivan Ussach, work together with two other families to raise vegetables, cattle, pigs and chickens. And when she’s not doing farm chores, Litchfield is in her second- floor studio carrying on the centuries-old tradition of weaving clothing and kitchen linens by hand on wooden looms.

Litchfield first encountered weaving as a nine-year-old girl on a field trip to Old Sturbridge Village. She fell in love, she says.

Full Article HERE

Posted: to General News on Thu, Feb 18, 2016
Updated: Thu, Feb 18, 2016