Author: Laura Fry
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Under Tension
Warping Valet First thing this morning I logged onto Facebook and immediately saw two posts by two ‘new’ weavers, each one complaining about nasty, snarled, tangled warps. I didn’t read the answers being given. Each person was giving their best answer – and most of them had pearls of wisdom in them. However. However.…
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Under Tension
Warping Valet First thing this morning I logged onto Facebook and immediately saw two posts by two ‘new’ weavers, each one complaining about nasty, snarled, tangled warps. I didn’t read the answers being given. Each person was giving their best answer – and most of them had pearls of wisdom in them. However. However.…
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Do No Harm
Since I’m still on ‘light duties’ there has been little weaving (as in, pretty much none), so I haven’t been getting my daily working meditation, which shuts my brain down and stops me from fretting about things I have little to no power to change or fix. I have been reading Mark Carney’s book…
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Light Duties
blurb web site One of the social media sites I belong to has a thread about weaving while sick/injured/disabled. I have hesitated to say much because every person’s journey is different. And mine has certainly been filled with times where I was ‘confined’ to ‘light duties’. Now, being one of them. I had such…
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Professional Services
There is an attitude amongst some that a craftsperson needs to do everything all by themselves. I’m going to explain why that isn’t always true. The very first professional I hired was an accountant. I wanted to make sure how I should set up my business, and what I needed to do in order…
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Recovery
Recovery is a slippery concept. To most people ‘recovery’ means returning to where you were before the event happened that changed your world – your life. For some of us, ‘recovery’ means something a bit different. One of the things I’ve done over the past few months is to get to know some people…
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Radicalized
A lot of people have begun to remember when – and what – radicalized them. For me it was a slow process, and there were many steps along the journey. By age 16 I was already ‘testing’ as being left of centre politically, and over the years I have not shifted much. But one…
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Passing the Torch
Now I’m beyond the 1 year ‘anniversary’ (birthday?) and trying to move forward, I have managed to think about some things and make some tentative decisions. Right now, I still do not feel as though I am functional enough to give my prepared lectures. Each topic was carefully created for doing it online, using…
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Stymied
peering closely at things I have been ‘stymied’ this past week so I didn’t make it to the loom until yesterday (Sunday). I rationed myself to 20 minutes at the loom, which meant I got to the 400 pick total. Which meant I was weaving about my standard ‘sedate’ pace of 20 picks per…