I suppose you need to be of a ‘certain’ age to get the reference, but oh well…
Yesterday I got a decent amount done (given how little I can do, lately), but it was enough to check my measurements and try to estimate how many bobbins per mat I needed.
I have over a pound of the fine tow linen singles, and it looks like the yarn is weaving up very close to the previous (green) linen. Bottom line? I probably won’t use it all up on this warp, but however much I do use up, that will be ‘enough’. If there is some left over (which I expect there will be) I can give it to a new weaver who is interested in weaving with linen. Might as well have some free stuff to experiment with.
As a Canadian I also need to practice patience given the current economic situation with our largest trading partner.
When the original tariffs etc. were imposed, I stopped all shipments to the US, which pretty much dried up about 90% of my income from my Ko-Fi shop. But when the word came down that foreign sellers needed to collect the tariff and remit it to the US, I refused. And, since I was boycotting made in the US products, I decided I could not, in good conscience, ask US folk to buy my stuff. However, they could buy my books because they are printed in the US.
Which brings me to my seminars.
I thought long and hard about offering them, and a wee bit of market research indicated that people other than US folk were also interested in taking them. Since there was no tariff involved, on either side, I decided to just go ahead to offer the seminars and let the customers decide.
For anyone wondering, because I see the posturing on both sides of the border, I do not ‘hate’ US citizens. I have no love for the current regime and the way they have been bullying other countries of the world. I have many friends in the US. I worry about them, and hope they remain safe and secure. But neither will I travel to the US, and will buy Canadian as much as possible.
Mostly I hope that both peoples of our countries manage to survive these all too ‘interesting times’.
As for my plans going forward, it is very difficult to make plans with everything appears to be raveling on every side. Our Prime Minister made the observation that the only thing we can do is control what *we* do. And that is good advice, and I try to live it. Even though what I can actually do is extremely curtailed (getting old is not for sissies), I can still get to the loom. I can still weave, albeit slowly. I can share my knowledge.
So I will do the seminar series in Sept-Nov, and if there is interest, I will offer the series again in the new year. Beyond that, I am making very few plans, other than to keep trying to weave down my stash.
Some days, that has to be enough.
For anyone wondering if I weave a lot…spouse has re-done the lacquer finish on my shuttles numerous times…