Category: Another Big Project

  If it was easy, everyone would be doing it… Over the years I have worked with spirit duplicators and Gestetner stencils.  Used a dictaphone to do transcriptions.  Typed on a manual typewriter and an electric one.  The height of technology was the Selectric typewriter where you could change the font ball. Computers came along…

  Yesterday I finished weaving the samples I’d planned for the Next Big Project.  Today I started pulling samples I’ve woven for previous classes on the same topic as well as some of the tools I will need to do the demonstrations. There are still more things to add – more samples, more tools –…

  So, yesterday I signed and returned the contract for the Next Big Project.  All while casting a wary eye at the provincial case numbers of covid, which continue to rise in an alarming way. The first week of October is far enough away that ‘we’ can still turn this around.  So I continue working…

  fresh off the loom One of the things about getting older and living in a body damaged by time and, um, experience (a gentle way to say pushing it too hard for too many years) is coming to grips with new expectations of what can be accomplished in a day. So even though it…

  I wanted to have some silk to wet finish and since I have a, um, generous supply of it, went digging.  I found enough of one colourway to make a warp long enough for two scarves and started weaving the first one yesterday.  I nearly finished it, but my new way of living is…

  Required weaving content – draft for single end huck The past few days I’ve been messing about, working on the Next Big Project, whilst keeping a wary eye on covid numbers.  I choose to believe that we can, and will, grapple the Delta variant and stop it, hopefully before my deadline.  But I will…

  Pandemic times means pivoting to other ways of doing things. One of the things I had done as part of ‘retiring’ from production weaving was open an on-line account with ko-fi.  As the pandemic ground on my inventory grew, with little opportunity to sell anything since large gatherings – like craft fairs – were…

  Pandemic times means pivoting to other ways of doing things. One of the things I had done as part of ‘retiring’ from production weaving was open an on-line account with ko-fi.  As the pandemic ground on my inventory grew, with little opportunity to sell anything since large gatherings – like craft fairs – were…

  Pandemic times means pivoting to other ways of doing things. One of the things I had done as part of ‘retiring’ from production weaving was open an on-line account with ko-fi.  As the pandemic ground on my inventory grew, with little opportunity to sell anything since large gatherings – like craft fairs – were…

  I’ve been having stress dreams again.  This time not related to travel, because I’m not – traveling that is. Instead the dreams are vague, disturbing concoctions, all jumbled up with covid and climate change.  The two plagues upon us at the minute. The weather forecast is saying temperatures are going up into the 30s…