Category: Another Big Project
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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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Cycle
For me, year end isn’t so much about December 31 but the end of the craft fair season. All of my efforts for the year are pretty much geared towards the sales that happen in Oct/Nov/Dec. If the textile isn’t woven and ready in time, I don’t stop pushing, I just push those textiles into…
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Up Close and Personal
This rather messy looking pile of…straw?…is actually a really close up view of cottolin (purple) and cotton (pale blue) woven together. It is hard to make out but the purple yarn is a two ply – if you look really closely, you might be able to see the one ply of purple on the surface…
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Germination
One of the things about most of the writing that I do is that the articles/blog posts, etc., have a very narrow focus. Even Magic in the Water was focused on just one (broad) part of the weaving process. The sample collections were narrow in that they were about just one fibre. Blog posts, of…
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Cold Snap
Not being someone who can usually just sit with no handwork to do, I brought several balls of hand spun yarn and a pair of needles with me and last night finished off another donation for the Cold Snap Music Festival. Even here the trees are beginning to change colour and it is getting…
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Cold Snap
Not being someone who can usually just sit with no handwork to do, I brought several balls of hand spun yarn and a pair of needles with me and last night finished off another donation for the Cold Snap Music Festival. Even here the trees are beginning to change colour and it is getting…
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Cold Snap
Not being someone who can usually just sit with no handwork to do, I brought several balls of hand spun yarn and a pair of needles with me and last night finished off another donation for the Cold Snap Music Festival. Even here the trees are beginning to change colour and it is getting…
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In the Beginning
The ice has broken. It’s probably crap, but it’s a start…taking suggestions for content. What would you like to see covered by moi? Won’t guarantee it will fit, but…
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Time Out
I’ve been away from home and studio for a week, now, and I’m missing the loom. Fibre work this week has been knitting. I am finally using up the last of the yarn I spun a few years ago by making scarves and cowls for the Cold Snap Music Festival which takes place sometime in…
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By the Numbers
Pageviews today 283 Pageviews yesterday 391 Pageviews last month 13,537 Pageviews all time history 799,037 Don’t track your own pageviews As of this morning, total page views of this blog are nudging the 800,000 mark! August of this year marked the 7th anniversary of entering the blogosphere. Life has had it’s share of ups and…