Category: A Good Yarn: LandH
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Of Dust Settling
I think producing a book is a lot like giving birth. Given enough months (years) and the labour pains subside and you are willing to do it again. (Well, some are – I never went there in the first place, so it’s only hearsay!) At any rate, now that the dust has settled from getting…
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Labour Pains
Most authors write their books, edit them and then hand the next step in the process over to a band of experts. Not me. Nuh-uh. No, I have to do publications with actual fabric samples. So instead of just writing, I’m weaving (and not just one for pretty pictures, but enough for each copy), which…
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Stymied – Sort of…
My tight deadlines are not my suppliers’ problem. Sending the incorrect yarn, is. Started winding a warp to drop off to the dyer next Tuesday (the plan is for 14 more warps for fill-in colourways) and got 8 out of 10 sections wound before I ran out of yarn. Upon opening the box from Brassard,…
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Miscellany
So today has not been a great day, although not horrible. Up at 6 am to make a 7:30 am dental appointment – I think my mouth may still be a little bit frozen in this photo? Scrambling all day, final edits of AGY: Linen and Hemp (contact me if you have not received an…
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One Bit(e)
scarf 45 Weaving, like life, is accomplished in the same way as one eats the proverbial elephant – one bit(e) at a time. Big projects can become overwhelming from the sheer volume of effort it takes to get them finished. I tend to dream up ‘big’ projects and then minimize the number of steps it…
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The Not So Never-ending Stash
I knew I was beginning to run out of colours of the Bambu 12, but I had not realized just how low my inventory had gotten until I got to this warp (#10). Fortunately I had more of the custom dyed 2/10 Tencel in the semi-solids, one of which was a very dark green with…
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Tangled Skein
I love when things are going smoothly and all that is required is surface attention. I can either go into my ‘zone’ and use weaving as a working meditation, or I can use the time to think about writing projects. And so it was this morning that I figured I could use the time spent…
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Controlled Panic
scarf 31 Working on a large project it is all too easy to let the nay-sayers living in your head to send you into a frenzy of procrastination. Will it turn out? Will people like it? Will people actually pony up real money and buy it? If you let yourself listen to those voices you…
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Controlled Panic
scarf 31 Working on a large project it is all too easy to let the nay-sayers living in your head to send you into a frenzy of procrastination. Will it turn out? Will people like it? Will people actually pony up real money and buy it? If you let yourself listen to those voices you…
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Controlled Panic
scarf 31 Working on a large project it is all too easy to let the nay-sayers living in your head to send you into a frenzy of procrastination. Will it turn out? Will people like it? Will people actually pony up real money and buy it? If you let yourself listen to those voices you…