Author: Laura Fry
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Book Costs
I’m watching with close interest as Nine Ten goes through the pre-publication process for Michelle Boyd’s new book, and then saw a post on FB this morning about finances, debt and trying to juggle all the things. The memories of producing Magic in the Water came roaring back. Picture the late 1990s. If you…
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Reviewing
When I first started weaving I had little expectation of doing anything more than just that – weaving. But I was tossed into the deep end of the teaching pool by my then instructor – with no training, little knowledge, but a love for this intriguing craft. And the desire to share with others…
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Decisions, Decisions
The state of my stash has been weighing on me – heavily. These are just two shelves of my current stash. To be fair, I have gotten rid of or woven a large part of my previous stash, but still…pounds and pounds and pounds of stuff. It is beginning to feel less of inspiration…
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Perfect
Much as I would like to think of myself as ‘perfect’, I know it is not so. I have done dumb things. Stupid things. Unkind things. The kind of things that my guilty conscious gnaws on at dark o’clock – of which there have been all too many, these days. Er, nights. There have…
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Tension
Tension box Yesterday I finally felt up to tackling the beaming. I also pressed the additional samples for the current article, edited another article and emailed a couple photos I wanted to provide and will work on continuing processing the samples today, writing up a ‘legend’ and then adding string tags to more easily…
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Peace and Quiet
I am in count down mode with my next back injection booked for next Tuesday. I feel like I’m about 3 weeks ‘late’ getting it, but there isn’t much that can be done. When I made the appointment, it seemed do-able and I’d be ‘fine’. Today? Not so much. On the other hand, some…
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Choosing
Realizing that the current sample warp could be off the loom as soon as (gasp!) tomorrow, figured I had better get cracking on choosing the next towel warp. I still have some (quite a lot, really) of the 2/15 natural white cotton to use up, and a small amount (for me) of the dyed…
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Fibre Prep
red/rust – 2/16 cotton – teal – 16/2 cotton I keep coming back to my microscope photos of yarns, willing myself to better understanding what is happening in the yarn. I learned to spin in 1974, long before I had any intention to take up weaving. But I became fascinated by what was happening…
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Assumptions
after wetting the threads out the threads have increased in diameter as they bloomed In our search for definitive answers, we tend to grab hold of one end of the string (quite literally, at times) and think that we have understood all of the aspects there are to know about something. As I try…
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Profile
In yesterday’s post I mentioned the yarn ‘profile’ as being sawtoothed, and I began to wonder if people would know what I was referring to. So I worried about it for a while and decided the best thing to do was manipulate the image a bit. And, while I was at it, see if…