Author: Laura Fry
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Stocking Stuffers
The solstice cometh, and the turning of the sun from travelling south, to returning north. A time of change, of returning of the light. This month has pivoted to a renewed effort on my part to try and deal with the copious amounts of clutter in my life. I was also reminded again that…
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Dealing with Mistakes
I mentioned last time that I had a couple of threading errors that I fixed while I was still in the threading stage. One meant I had to hang an ‘extra’ end, and in another I had a couple ‘extra’ threads that I removed from the warp. The ‘extra’ end is the tag end…
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Rough Patch
Life is full of rough patches. We think – assume – that we have total control over our lives but the reality is that we do not. What we have is the power to react to what happens, and then try to chart a path through those rough patches. To be honest, I have…
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When Progress Is Measured in Millimeters
Weaving is one of those crafts (like many others) where the prep work is all done in order to *get* you to the fun part – the shuttle throwing. And all of it has to be done *before* you can have the fun. It’s rough for some people to do the stuff that needs…
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Endings
This morning as I sat drinking my coffee and reading through social media, I was served up a meme with a quote by Brian Cox, the scientist (not the actor). Over the years I’ve enjoyed his programs on science, so I was interested in this quote: “The ultimate paradox, of course, is that even…
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Quiet Milestone
Probably the first ‘meme’ I ever made… The other day this blog had a quiet Milestone – viewership is now over 4 million page views. I kind of stopped counting when I realized that bots were ‘raiding’ sites like mine, selling the active URL addresses so they could start making comments on posts and…
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Quiet Milestone
Probably the first ‘meme’ I ever made… The other day this blog had a quiet Milestone – viewership is now over 4 million page views. I kind of stopped counting when I realized that bots were ‘raiding’ sites like mine, selling the active URL addresses so they could start making comments on posts and…
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Quiet Milestone
Probably the first ‘meme’ I ever made… The other day this blog had a quiet Milestone – viewership is now over 4 million page views. I kind of stopped counting when I realized that bots were ‘raiding’ sites like mine, selling the active URL addresses so they could start making comments on posts and…
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No Mistakes!
Borrowed table top loom From time to time I hear/see newer weavers exclaim that they can’t wait until they don’t make mistakes anymore. Yeah, about that… Well, not all of the challenges I had to deal with for this warp (and I’m not even finished dressing the loom – yet) were of my making.…
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Unseen Forces
Thinking about ‘unseen forces’ in weaving, it’s time to remind people that if you live in an arid climate, or more especially, one where the relative humidity swings seasonally, you may run afoul of the issue of low humidity in the air. When that happens, things go ‘wrong’ and it may be difficult to…