Category: ANWG 2019
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Come and Get ‘em!
Three weeks to the conference and final detail crunching proceeds. Part of the staging for the conference was pulling the boxes of books out and stacking them, ready to be packed up for the vendor booth I have at the conference. I have 55 copies of The Intentional Weaver. They will be available for sale…
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To Everything There is a Season
We tend to forget that for every beginning there is an ending. When we are reminded, it can be difficult to cope with the feelings that the reminder brings with it. In weaving there are lots of beginnings and endings. Warps end. Thread ends. Shuttles empty and need to be filled. Projects come to completion…
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In the Fullness of Time
after wet finishing and brushing before wet finishing (loom state) Patience has never been one of my attributes. I have a plan, I want things to fall into place. NOW! Over the years I have had to curb my impatience and just let things develop in their own time. So I tend to cope with…
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And On We Go…
The conference registration is ticking along (we’d love to see more people sign up – it’s gonna be a time!) and it is time to lift my head up out of that particular deep well and start looking beyond mid-June and to what comes next. Now that I’m beginning to feel better – for however…
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Adventures…
…I’ve had a few… obligatory pretty textile picture As I was writing up my latest conference blog post I thought about adventures. I remembered how many fantastic experiences I have had since I took up weaving, all the people I’ve met, the textiles that have inspired me. My first conference was 1978 Convergence in Fort…
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Girl Friends
All of my girlfriends are textile people. As I engaged more and more with weaving, writing about and teaching it, the more weavers/spinners/etc. I met and the more I found myself wanting to spend time with a group of people who were as passionate about what I was passionate about. One of the ways I…
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Don’t Do It
A few days ago I was scrolling through Facebook and a headline caught my eye. Something about not turning your hobby into a ‘side hustle’. Since weaving was never a side hustle for me, I kept on scrolling. I get it, though. The cost of doing fibre arts has certainly gotten more expensive. Especially yarn…
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Community
My work has been on the cover of Handwoven twice. I was hoping for a ‘hat trick’, but the news that F & W, the current owners of Interweave are in Chapter 11 re-structuring has left a lot of people – not just fibre folk – wondering about the future. As weavers, spinners and knitters,…
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Community
My work has been on the cover of Handwoven twice. I was hoping for a ‘hat trick’, but the news that F & W, the current owners of Interweave are in Chapter 11 re-structuring has left a lot of people – not just fibre folk – wondering about the future. As weavers, spinners and knitters,…
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Assumptions
Next place mat warp ready to go into the loom There are two sides to everything. As someone who has taught weaving for a long time, one of the things I have had to do is understand my assumptions. First I had to understand that when someone didn’t know something, they didn’t know that they…