Author: Laura Fry
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Endings, Beginnings
Yesterday I got the last warp inspected and repaired and into the washing machine and dryer. Today I will press them. Weaving is a constant state of ending one project, beginning another. I had thought to get the next warp beamed, but what with one thing and another (Life Happens) I had not generated…
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Puzzling
Many of my childhood memories revolve around working on jigsaw puzzles. In our home, there wasn’t a lot of room to devote to the building of a puzzle, so we were pretty much confined to 500 or 1000 piece puzzles, which we built on the coffee table in the living room. These days, I’m…
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Begin As You Mean To Go On
I was expecting to have a rather quiet day, but in my email this afternoon was the digital version of the spring issue of WEFT. Of course I had to immediately stop and check out ‘my’ article…(ahem) I have probably mentioned previously that when the brain bleed hit I was about halfway through weaving…
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New Year, New Opportunities
It is really heartening to see the interest in weaving beginning to build – again. Unfortunately new weavers have an obstacle I never had – LLM, AI, whatever it is called – in addition to the ‘usual’ myths out there about weaving, we now have the ‘lying’ machines feeding a massive amount of misinformation…
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Soap Boxes
bins of warps, not chained but just dropped into a bin Bet you would be surprised at just how many ‘soap boxes’ I will leap onto at the drop of a comment. Or, maybe not, if you are a long time reader of this blog… My top 2 are – of course – ergonomics…
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Pragmatic (CW: politics)
I designed a font that I could use in my weaving because sometimes I like to show off that I’m a ‘clever clogs’. As another weaver said to me one day, sometimes you *want* people to know that you are clever. I suppose there is a certain level of pragmatism to my character. You’d…
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Gifts With Meaning
Doug and I didn’t give each other ‘gifts’ this year. Truth to tell we really haven’t bothered with ‘holiday’ gifts for years. If we needed/wanted something, we’d announce to the other and they would say ‘happy birthday’ or whatever. So we don’t bother with a tree or any decorations really. We have our string…
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Season of Holidays
In the Northern Hemisphere, it is the season of darkness. It is a time to bring light. Light a candle. String up the lights. Build a bonfire. Hunker down until the returning of the sun. Whichever ‘holiday’ you celebrate, if you live in the northern hemisphere, it generally includes the bringing of the light,…
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Plugging Along
a peek at the backside of the cloth currently on the loom – the selvedges are not ‘perfect’ but are pretty consistent – they also tend to curl or roll at the selvedge, which I don’t fuss over, just leave them to do what they will do under pressure from the highly twisted weft…
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Does It Bring Joy?
just some of the bags of the rayon chenille yarn being donated for the stash busting sale at the guild next month… We spent some time today clearing off one shelving unit of rayon chenille, bagging it up after sorting into the 3 ‘sizes’ represented there. and labelling the bags of yarn with the…