Category: Another Big Project
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Hubris
There is a certain amount of hubris associated with creative work. You have to have enough ego, confidence, what have you, to think other people will actually pay you for your endeavours. How much of what I make/write is ‘valuable’ enough that someone else will pay for it? How confident can I be that all…
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Aspirations
This cold has really knocked the stuffing out of me. Normally I will weave for 45 minutes before taking a break – not because I’m tired but because I know it is good for my body. The past few days I have been weaving on the AVL – just one towel at a time –…
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Hibernation
February. The darkest month, in spite of returning longer days. The month when hibernation seems like a good strategy to get through the rest of the winter. With both of us down for the count with colds, it has been a struggle to get up, get dressed, do anything more than just get through…
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363 days
I’ve used up three of my lives now, I think. It was 363 days ago that I prepared for surgery – a fairly major surgery that left me weak as a kitten, but ‘saved’. It’s been a long year in many ways – the recovery was long and challenging. At times it was down right…
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Organic vs Linear Learning
The box is definitely getting emptier and it is getting more…challenging to come up with colour combinations I find pleasing in sufficient quantity. But I am nearly finished that last cone of cotton slub/linen for weft. Today I got back to The Book and generated another 2000 or so words…and lots of drafts for…
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Work = Play
So, I am back to weaving with yarn of relatively high linen content – during winter – with low ambient humidity. Yesterday I dressed the loom with another tea towel warp on the small loom and wound bobbins for weft. The weft yarn is a cotton slub plyed (plied?) with a singles linen. It’s fairly…
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Break Over
Got my yarn order yesterday so it’s time to get back to work. This warp will be more place mats, some for a special person, in a special size. The rest will go into inventory. I seem to be taking a break from writing today. There were appointments and errands and this warp to deal…
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Mush
This folks, is a photo of page 30 and 31 of The Book…so far. That’s 31 pages of single spaced text, lacking copious numbers of photos, diagrams and potentially links to video clips. I am at the point where I am trouble shooting selvedges in order to help people figure out why they might be…
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‘Tis the Season
Woke up this morning to fairly steady snow so it’s beginning to look a lot like winter. With the solstice just a few days away, I always feel as though the turning of the diurnal cycle is the ‘true’ beginning of the new year, much as our far away and long ago ancestors must have…
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‘Tis the Season
Woke up this morning to fairly steady snow so it’s beginning to look a lot like winter. With the solstice just a few days away, I always feel as though the turning of the diurnal cycle is the ‘true’ beginning of the new year, much as our far away and long ago ancestors must have…