Category: A Thread Runs Through It
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Writing A Book
Magic in the Water; wet finishing handwovens As a kid, I loved words, stories. I read voraciously and dreamt one day of writing, too. But I soon realized that I didn’t have stories to tell, as such. It wasn’t until I became a weaver that I realized that my stories were all weaving related.…
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Spring Has Sprung
Spring seems to have arrived. We had a small ‘flock’ of American robins in our back yard this morning. The woodpecker arrived last week, claiming his territory by rattling away at the metal vents in the roof. With climate change advancing relentlessly, it is hard to know what the future holds. We’re old, we’ve…
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Lurching
Someone posted a meme on Facebook about ‘baby steps’ being tentative when they are anything but. The poster equated a baby learning how to walk as a ‘lurch into the unknown’. And I thought about my life and how many times I ‘lurched’ into the unknown. I think it began with reading. I was…
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Exchange Rates
So, yesterday I cashed a US $ cheque (payment for a recent Zoom presentation). The teller informed me that the exchange rate was such that I was going to get a lot more Canadian money than the number written on the cheque. I told her I was grateful I wasn’t buying stuff from the…
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Experiment Time
Well, it’s done. I’m still not exactly tech savvy, so I hope I’ve done it correctly. This is the fourth ‘book’ I’ve written. (Well, I’ve done one other, which may never see light of day.) It is the most personal, and I share more of my life’s journey than ever before. This book looks…
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Be Prepared to Suck
This morning I saw a post by Abby Franquemont who said (I paraphrase), when you are learning something new, or re-learning something you haven’t done for a while, be prepared to ‘suck’. I think this is something that we, as a society, have forgotten. That *skilled* labour takes time and effort to learn. And…
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Valentine’s Day
I designed these little hearts late in 2007 and used them in a number of ways. The cloth shown (still on the loom) was for tea towels; rose cotton warp with a fine rose slub for weft. My internist received a pair of these towels (the first time I gifted my textiles to a…
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Valentine’s Day
I designed these little hearts late in 2007 and used them in a number of ways. The cloth shown (still on the loom) was for tea towels; rose cotton warp with a fine rose slub for weft. My internist received a pair of these towels (the first time I gifted my textiles to a…
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Valentine’s Day
I designed these little hearts late in 2007 and used them in a number of ways. The cloth shown (still on the loom) was for tea towels; rose cotton warp with a fine rose slub for weft. My internist received a pair of these towels (the first time I gifted my textiles to a…
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Learning Curve
is curvy… I’m glad I chose this bookmark design to begin with. It’s easy, just two ‘stitches’ and I’m using 2/20 merc. cotton so the threads are big enough I can see to do it. 🙂 Today I will look for a different bookmark design, something with another stitch in it. There won’t be a…