Author: Laura Fry
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AI – and Learning
One of the challenges in 2025 is the fact that we are besieged on every side by AI. Word has it. Google has it. My email program has it. Everywhere are ‘bots’ (I won’t even call them ‘robots’) trying to interfere in what I want to do. I get that some people are not…
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Socializing
WEFT magazine sent their contributors a pin. Today – the first time in a very long time – I went out to the guild room and spent some time socializing with a small group of people who were interested in the magazine, and the samples I wove for the first issue. A magazine is…
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Deep Dive
If you don’t understand your materials, you won’t know how to use them appropriately. There is a persistent piece of information that gets shared around in the weaving community – a ‘myth’ I have tried to explain is not helpful. The assumption is that yarn counts give you everything you need to know about…
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Oops
After wet finishing the last warp, I decided how much I needed to be ‘concerned’ about the threading mistake I had made. The design is a modified Swedish Snowflake twill, which means it’s ‘fancy’ (read ‘busy’!) and if you look closely you can probably identify it. But a cursory look? Probably most people would…
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Organized
Well, I am still not ‘healed’ from the brain injury. I used to be able to juggle several major projects – all at once – and keep track of the deadlines – and where I was in terms of progress on all of them. I have been working steadily on writing content for WEFT…
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“Best” Way to Thread
Once again the ‘arguments’ about the ‘best’ way to thread continue. This person does A, that person does B, that other person swears by C, and round and round and round we go. The best way to thread is what works ‘best’ for…*you*. Someone said they thread one way, and during the course of…
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Smooth Sailing
Swans. They look so…majestic. So calm. But under the surface of the water, their feet are working to keep them on course. To any unexperienced observer, it looks so simple. Same with other skilled activities – like weaving. My father always pointed out someone skilled by saying ‘watch out for the people who make…
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A Lifetime of Learning
When I chose to make weaving my ‘career’, all I had to go on was a gut feeling and big dreams. I really had no clue as to what I was doing, or what would be required. I did have a broad range of experience to draw upon, which helped. But what fueled me…
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Before and After
a variation on Swedish Snowflake Wet finishing will ‘change’ your textiles. Sometimes a lot; sometimes not so much. Since I wet finished the last warp while there was still some of the warp left to weave, I have an example of the same textile in loom state and after wet finishing. The weave structure…
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Sunny Day
These white roses grew on a series of rose bushes along part of the path I used to walk and I always loved them when they bloomed. Unfortunately, someone cut them all down a few years ago, which I think was a shame, but my walk became less soothing with their disappearance. Eventually I…