Author: Laura Fry
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Inching Along
I have managed to get to the loom and pick away at the current warp. Today I will finish weaving towel #6 on the warp, cut off, re-tie and begin the 2nd third. It feels painfully slow, but…on I go. Because it doesn’t seem to matter if I weave or not, the pain I…
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Keeping On, Keeping On
I’m in the ‘slog’ part of weaving. OTOH, since I *enjoy* the weaving part, it’s not actually a ‘hardship’ for me. It becomes a working meditation, a dopamine dump, an endorphin rush. Mostly what I’m doing right now is preparing for the next treatment (Wednesday, if anyone cares to send positive energy my way),…
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Riding the Avalanche
Just started weaving this warp yesterday. So far, so good. However… There is an ‘easter egg’ in this cloth. The warp is 2/20 merc. cotton at 36 epi; the weft is singles 6 with energy (high level of twist – which if you look closely you can see evidence of in the little ‘pigtails’…
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Reply Guys
I’m no stranger to ‘reply guys’ trying to ‘teach’ me things. Mostly I ignore them. Mostly. Recently one replied to a short answer I wrote in an online group to ‘teach’ me because my answer ‘wasn’t entirely correct’. Of course it wasn’t. It was a very brief response to a specific question – a…
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A Tiny Blue Dot (CW warning – current events)
yellow line represents the divide between the US and Russia This morning I read a post that explained that the current president of the US said that he ‘didn’t want to be neighbours with Russia’. About that… The current president has also said – repeatedly – that he wants to destroy my country economically…
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Books – Unexpected Gifts
I have read multitudes of books. I love reading. I love learning stories, fiction and fact, examining new places, people, how humans deal with stress and happiness and everything in between. Sometimes I stumble across books, sometimes a friend will recommend one, sometimes I will see an ad online and something catches my attention.…
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Complexity. Subtlety.
As a new weaver, it gets confusing to try and figure out things like weaving drafts. What do those little black boxes mean? How do you get plain weave on this weave structure? Where are the odds vs even treadles that weave ‘tabby’? It can be frustrating to make sense out of what you…
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Tugging At Threads
The Intentional Weaver Talking to someone the other day who was feeling overwhelmed about how much there is to learn. I suggested that they try to find the end of the thread and then follow it, wherever it led. We all learn in our own ways, following our interests. With a craft such as weaving,…
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Where Ideas Come From?
Here is a ‘tease’ – something I’m working on presently. What is it? My surname’s first letter. I am – or was – a production weaver, constantly looking for ways to work efficiently (and ergonomically, of course!) I learned a technique about using pick up to extend the limitations of a shaft loom and…
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How It Feels
burn, baby, burn…. One of the most difficult things to do is to explain how you are feeling to someone else when you have no point of commonality. When I tell someone my feet hurt – how can anyone else know what that means? Hell, I can’t figure it out myself, how can anyone…