Category: books
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New Book
Stacey Harvey-Brown’s new book Creative Dimensions in Weaving is now available. If you are curious about creating 3D effects in textiles, Stacey has been doing lots of digging into how to make that happen. The book can be purchased immediately as a pdf download. I haven’t invested yet as I really prefer print, but…
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Essential Information
A User’s Guide to Yarn – pre-order now Just in the past few days I have seen multiple ‘new’ weavers asking very specific questions about yarn – what to use, how to use it, etc. I’m glad that they are asking, but answers are difficult within the context of a chat group. The pool…
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Books – Unexpected Gifts
I have read multitudes of books. I love reading. I love learning stories, fiction and fact, examining new places, people, how humans deal with stress and happiness and everything in between. Sometimes I stumble across books, sometimes a friend will recommend one, sometimes I will see an ad online and something catches my attention.…
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Complexity. Subtlety.
As a new weaver, it gets confusing to try and figure out things like weaving drafts. What do those little black boxes mean? How do you get plain weave on this weave structure? Where are the odds vs even treadles that weave ‘tabby’? It can be frustrating to make sense out of what you…
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Puzzling
Many of my childhood memories revolve around working on jigsaw puzzles. In our home, there wasn’t a lot of room to devote to the building of a puzzle, so we were pretty much confined to 500 or 1000 piece puzzles, which we built on the coffee table in the living room. These days, I’m…
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Beatrix Potter and the Herdwick Sheep
Beatrix Potter and the Herdwick Sheep Last night we watched a program about Beatrix Potter and her deep connection to the Lake District. I had forgotten about the work she did to help the Herdwick Sheep thrive. As a child I knew about Beatrix Potter, but she wasn’t my favourite author. And largely I…
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Beatrix Potter and the Herdwick Sheep
Beatrix Potter and the Herdwick Sheep Last night we watched a program about Beatrix Potter and her deep connection to the Lake District. I had forgotten about the work she did to help the Herdwick Sheep thrive. As a child I knew about Beatrix Potter, but she wasn’t my favourite author. And largely I…
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Beatrix Potter and the Herdwick Sheep
Beatrix Potter and the Herdwick Sheep Last night we watched a program about Beatrix Potter and her deep connection to the Lake District. I had forgotten about the work she did to help the Herdwick Sheep thrive. As a child I knew about Beatrix Potter, but she wasn’t my favourite author. And largely I…
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Beatrix Potter and the Herdwick Sheep
Beatrix Potter and the Herdwick Sheep Last night we watched a program about Beatrix Potter and her deep connection to the Lake District. I had forgotten about the work she did to help the Herdwick Sheep thrive. As a child I knew about Beatrix Potter, but she wasn’t my favourite author. And largely I…