Category: Another Big Project

  It is always interesting that trees, even of the same species, will sometimes turn colour at different times. With the past few days of cooler, wetter weather, the colour has really come on in some of the mountain ash across the street.  But not all.  The one in the yard next to this one…

  With weaving (plus teaching/writing about weaving) being so labour intensive, oftentimes with months of input before any kind of return comes into the bank account, I became pretty proficient at having large numbers of projects partially underway.  Oftentimes I would feel like the guy on the Ed Sullivan Show with his sticks and spinning…

  One of the attractions for me about weaving was the potential.  The vast potential involved in choosing a yarn, developing an interlacement, combining colours, textures.   It has been a life long journey of exploration and experimentation.  One that is still not over. Weaving someone else’s designs has proved valuable to me on many levels. …

  Another Zoom meeting under our belts.  Numbers attending the live presentations have fallen off, but that’s ok.  I just loaded the recording to You Tube where people can view at their convenience. And that’s the thing.  We don’t have to miss out when live events either don’t or can’t happen when it suits us. …

  It’s September, Labour Day weekend.  My iPad camera didn’t do this gentle dawn justice, but shows the movement of the sun from the north, on its journey to the south. It started to rain, shortly after I took the photo.  A gentle rain which likely didn’t bring much in the way of water, but…

  It’s September, Labour Day weekend.  My iPad camera didn’t do this gentle dawn justice, but shows the movement of the sun from the north, on its journey to the south. It started to rain, shortly after I took the photo.  A gentle rain which likely didn’t bring much in the way of water, but…

  It was a lesson I learned a long time ago – to help someone else did not diminish me in any way. The pandemic has been hard.  Oh, so hard.  People have had to scramble to keep a roof over their heads, food on the table.  All while dodging a virus that continues to…

  It took just two months to go from a very low case count to routinely running around 650-800 cases of covid.  Per day. Today the BC health officer held a press conference to answer questions about what will happen now that numbers are rising, not just in a couple of hard hit regions, but…

  Yesterday I worried away at the filming schedule for the Next Big Project until my brain felt like old porridge.  Not wanting to think anymore, I took the silk warp I’d wound the day before, rough sleyed it, beamed it, then threaded/sleyed/lashed on. I needed enough concentration to do that job that I didn’t…